Cutler's injury: ah, shaddup
Jan. 25th, 2011 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_archfiendWhat Dan Bernstein said, both here and here. The following is particularly relevant, especially considering the rapidly approaching end of the NFL's current collective bargaining agreement:
Remember what happened before the prime-time season opener in New Orleans? Players from opposing sidelines staged a symbolic show of solidarity by marching on the field after the anthem, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with teammates, each raising one finger aloft and signaling across the field.
Remember what happened before the prime-time season opener in New Orleans? Players from opposing sidelines staged a symbolic show of solidarity by marching on the field after the anthem, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with teammates, each raising one finger aloft and signaling across the field.
“We’re all one voice,” the Saints’ Drew Brees said that day.
Actually, you’re not.
Workers uniting for a common cause do not undermine each other by lobbing 140-character grenades with impacts that reverberate everywhere, immediately. Bruce Gradkowski, Darnell Dockett and Maurice Jones-Drew are not the same voice as Cutler, or teammates who have leapt to his side. Olin Kreutz, Brian Urlacher and Chris Harris are not exactly in the most fraternal of moods right now.
Well, yeah. How in the hell can you be "fraternal" when both current players (and former ones acting as analysts on ESPN and elsewhere) are doing their best to paint Cutler's departure from Sunday's game due to an injury as an attempt by him to quit?
