Speaking in the kinds of harsh terms that athletes rarely use toward teammates, Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler lashed out at wide receiver Brandon Marshall at a press conference today.

“Yeah, he’s not my favorite person right now,” Cutler said of Marshall.  “I mean, I support him, but it’s always something with him right now.”

Marshall, who entered the league with Cutler in the 2006 draft, has developed into Cutler’s No. 1 receiver.  But he will miss much of the off-season after suffering a serious arm injury while wrestling with relatives. Marshall at first claimed that he slipped on a McDonald’s wrapper and later admitted he was lying about the circumstances surrounding the injury.

Cutler said he was disappointed that he won’t be able to work on his timing with Marshall during the spring.

“We’re going to be fine.  I’m not that overly concerned about it, but it just would be nice coming into our third year, coming off a big year he had last year, for him to get more work done and get more time in and just a little more trust out there,” Cutler said.  “But it’s going to take some time now, maybe training camp, maybe even longer.”

Cutler also brought up Marshall’s October drunk driving arrest.

“I’ve talked to him many times. I think a lot of people have. . . .  He knows he’s running out of chances,” Cutler said.  “This wasn’t like his DUI and other stuff he’s had.  It was an accident, but still, things like that can’t happen.  He knows it.

“But like I told him, I said, ‘Brandon, they’re going to quit giving you chances and you’re going to have to go somewhere else.  And that’s going to be a shame.”‘

And although Marshall has said he understands he has to change his ways, Cutler doesn’t sound like he buys it.

“His DUI was a wakeup call,” Cutler retorted.  ”He’s had many wakeup calls. I mean, he’s been in [coach Mike] Shanahan’s office many times.  I’ve been up there with him.  He said the same thing: ‘This is a wakeup call.  This is the last thing that’s going to happen.  Blah blah blah.’  I mean, until he goes out and proves it, we’ll see what happens.”

It’s unusual to hear one player call out another in the media the way Cutler did today, and it’s a sign that Marshall may not be a very popular guy in his own locker room.