{"id":689,"date":"2009-04-01T21:12:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T21:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2009-04-01T21:12:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T21:12:57","slug":"breakout-players-media-jay-cutler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/breakout-players-media-jay-cutler\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakout players, media, Jay Cutler."},"content":{"rendered":"

My annual breakouts piece is a photo gallery<\/a> this year with shorter text from me. And yes, I still love Rickie Weeks, even though he’s not on there.<\/p>\n

I’ll be on First Take via phone at 10:20 am on Thursday, and KTAR at 9:24 am Arizona Time. I’ll be on Baltimore 105.7 FM tonight at 9:30 pm.<\/p>\n

Yes, there will be a Phoenix food post soon. It’s mostly done, but I’ve got some more preview stuff to hand in to ESPN.com first. <\/p>\n

There will be a Klawchat on Thursday at 1 pm.<\/p>\n

So can someone explain this Cutler thing to me? I keep hearing how the Broncos have<\/i> to trade him. Isn’t he under contract? So he wants a trade. I want a million dollars, a night with Ashley Judd, and a pony. If I’m Josh McDaniel, I’m staring at two options:<\/p>\n

1. Keep Cutler and make it clear to players and agents that I<\/b> am in charge.
\n2. Trade Cutler for 80 cents on the dollar* and show everyone that the lunatics are running the asylum.<\/p>\n

*This is my assumption, as someone who doesn’t really know football, because Denver would be seen as somehow unable to keep Cutler, and because I doubt you ever really get full value when trading a top-ten quarterback.<\/i><\/p>\n

Erik Kuselias was subbing for SVP on the Tirico\/VP show today and kept saying how Cutler has “leverage” – but does he? He’s an employee of the Broncos. If they decide to bench him for four games to teach him a lesson, as long as they’re paying him and abiding by the letter of the contract, they are within their rights to do so. I’ve heard no mention of a contractual obligation on the part of the Broncos to avoid hurting Cutler’s feelings, nor does he have a no-trade clause or a no-discussing-a-trade clause or a no-even-thinking-about-a-trade-even-while-you’re-on-the-throne clause. If Cutler doesn’t show up for a required camp or workout, you fine him. You may be able to suspend him without pay, which would be true in MLB. But just like I don’t give in to my daughter when she throws a tantrum, a GM shouldn’t give in to a player (or agent) when he throws one.<\/p>\n

Am I wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My annual breakouts piece is a photo gallery this year with shorter text from me. And yes, I still love Rickie Weeks, even though he’s not on there. I’ll be on First Take via phone at 10:20 am on Thursday, and KTAR at 9:24 am Arizona Time. I’ll be on Baltimore 105.7 FM tonight at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[49,134],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-football","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}