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In an interview with CBS 4 in Denver regarding his recent diagnosis with Type I diabetes, Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler says that he was feeling the effects of the condition during the 2007 season.
“We looked back, and I dropped 8-10 pounds in October,” Cutler said. “So at least six months. The second half of the season [it] was kind of something I was dealing with at the time. I was losing weight, didn’t have a lot of strength. You could tell. Just the way I played, some of the throws that I made didn’t have a lot behind them.”
It really shouldn’t affect Cutler’s performance moving forward; but if it did affect his performance in 2007, it’s hard not to wonder what in the heck the Broncos’ doctors were doing.
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:20 am
Wow, diabetes, 8-10 lbs lost in October alone, and still that double chin, turky neck thing he has going on remains. Another mystery of science….
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May 2nd, 2008 at 10:03 am
Maybe that’s what Rivers was making fun of him for…
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May 2nd, 2008 at 10:10 am
Wow. You guys are scumbags.
This guy gets diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, which kills people, and you guys make jokes at his expense.
I sure hope no one in your family ever suffers from a disease, otherwise it might be the joke of the town.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 am
Low blood sugar can make people act irritable and irrational. Maybe that’s why he was talking smack to the Chargers Defense? Maybe it was just all the punishment.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 10:22 am
Low blood sugar is terrible. I’m hypoglycemic, and when your blood sugar gets below a certain point it’s like you’re almost drunk. You get the shakes, things move slower/blurry, you feel dizzy, it’s not something that someone standing in the pocket should have.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 10:30 am
Karma…watch what you joke around about. Good luck Cutler.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 10:31 am
Diabetes causes high blood sugar - hyperglycemia. The body doesn’t produce enough insulin which unlocks the cells enabeling them to absorb surgar from the blood. Our bodies run on the sugar produced from the food we eat.
Ron Santo of the Cubs played baseball with Type I Diabetes. While it is treatable, Ron, now in his 60’s, has lost both legs to the disease.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 10:52 am
I’ve heard other people say he is out of shape.
He is 233 and runs a 4.6 40. Any of the tards on here run that quickly? Oh, and he benched 225 23 times. Out of shape? ummm…
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May 2nd, 2008 at 10:53 am
Excuses. See if he sings a different tune when strapped to Kevlar’s lie detector.
p.s. Lighten up guys
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May 2nd, 2008 at 11:10 am
Feel bad for Cutler, my 10 year old has it & it’s no fun for him at all. Kinda old for him to be diagnosed with it, as it’s usually kids that get Type 1,and adults get Type 2
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May 2nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
It also makes the healing process take longer, so that explains a lot.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Sorry for the Diabetes. But do not tie them to football. Don’t tell us about the pain, just show us the baby. Now DA, If you perform irradically this season, what is your excuse gonna be? That haircut? How about going out on the field with your lips buttoned, have a great year, and then say it was Diabetes in 07? How bout that? Show everyone before you blindly state that diabetes was the problem. We might as well change your name to Julius Jones. Or instead of bond, your name can be: Maker, …..Excuse Maker.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
there is no such thing as karma. didn’t you watch No Country for Old Men?
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May 2nd, 2008 at 3:36 pm
This thread is amusing.
“Sorry for the Diabetes. But do not tie them to football. Don’t tell us about the pain, just show us the baby.”
He’s a professional football player. He doesn’t need to tie it to football — if something is wrong with his body, it’s automatically tied to football.
“Now DA, If you perform irradically this season, what is your excuse gonna be?”
Who’s DA?
“That haircut?”
Huh? Cutler has never said that’s a problem, although people seem to like making that joke. Even now, three years after he was drafted. Zzzzzzzzz…
“How about going out on the field with your lips buttoned, have a great year, and then say it was Diabetes in 07?”
Huh? Cutler actually had a great ‘07. He was a second year player who played behind a shaky line with often injured receivers, a lousy running game, and still ranked 13th in overall league QB stats. So does that mean he doesn’t have diabetes anymore?
“How bout that? Show everyone before you blindly state that diabetes was the problem.”
Blindly? Far be it from us to think the man knows his body better than a bunch of chuckleheads on a discussion board, but if the man suddenly looses a lot of weight and has weakness and other symptoms of diabetes, and gets tested and is scientifically shown to have diabetes, how is that “blindly” blaming diabetes?
“We might as well change your name to Julius Jones. Or instead of bond, your name can be: Maker, …..Excuse Maker.”
Find a dictionary and compare “reason” and “excuse” and then get back to us.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Uh….yeah. Good one, Bubba. The kid lost 30 pounds from October ’til now. Somehow, I imagine that had an effect, huh?
Not sure why I come here looking for rational arguments, though. As most of the comments prove, the denizens of this board are usually total mouth-breathers who just parrot Florio.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 5:26 pm
I’m not familiar with Diabetes…how does alcohol affect it? I went to the Packer vs Denver Monday night game and he was out right after the game drinking his sorrows away. All I’m saying, if he was feeling that run down then you’d think he would have went to the doctors to get it checked out…it’s just sad that he’s just now finding out. Hopefully it won’t be life threatening like it has been for so many.
P.S. He was a jerk in person and you can’t blame that on the diabetes.
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May 3rd, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Ignoring all the ugly comments here, I come back to the question about why the team doctors didn’t follow up. If he was losing weight, the simplest tests to run are urinalysis and blood analysis. Either one wouldmhave indicated enough to test further. That suggests to me that they were simply not paying attention.
It seems to me that the investments that NFL teams have in players should make them run some basic screens every month or so, rather than just at training camp time.
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