Cutler Engaging In Damage Control?

Now that Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler has pissed and moaned his way out of Denver, he’s apparently trying to reverse the perception that he’s a pisser and/or moaner. Buried in a Denver Post article regarding the team’s decision to give Cutler his Oompa Loompa now is a report that Cutler had packed his car and shipped it to Denver, where he planned to participate in a voluntary minicamp on April 17-19. Intended message: “I’m a team player. So if you put together a Herschel Walker-style trade package and then pay me a bunch of money, I won’t become a pain in your ass a year or two from now. Trust me.” We’re also hearing that the Cutler camp is privately claiming that he didn’t fail to return calls and/or text messages from coach Josh McDaniels and owner Pat Bowlen. As we understand it, the Cutler camp isn’t claiming that he returned the calls and/or texts. The Cutler camp, we’re told, is claiming that he never got them, and that the issue is being used as a way to justify trading him -- and as a way to make him look bad (which of course makes no sense because it only makes it harder to get a Herschel Walker-style trade package if Cutler is perceived as a punk by other teams). Mike Klis of the Post also says that Cutler was “surprised” by the news that the team had decided to trade him. Perhaps Cutler was “surprised” in the same sense that Ralphie was “surprised” when he got that Red Ryder carbine-action, two hundred shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time for which he’d been pestering his parents for weeks. Finally, we couldn’t end this one without a nod to Taco Bill’s latest, which shows one of the Broncos’ options for Cutler that has been to date overlooked.