If you haven't seen it already, here is the Denver coach reminding his players last night that "all we're trying to do is win the motherfucking game." Guess he forgot to tell them that during their recent four-game losing streak. Anyway, it's all good. The announcers apologized immediately and today the Network offered up a hilarious apology, where an executive producer admitted that his team made a "terrible mistake," while simultaneously marveling at how awesome their microphones are. You can hear everything! You should definitely call your cable operator and subscribe today!

Also, Denver won the motherfucking game so keep up the smack talk, Josh. Swearing works, kids!

Josh McDaniels Just Wants to Win a Motherf–king Game! [The Last Angry Fan]
NFL Network: We Made 'Terrible Mistake' [Fanhouse]

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Ok, that's enough for today. Go dig some leftovers out of the fridge and enjoy whatever college football and/or basketball you can find on TV tonight. Weed Against Barry will keep you company as usual this weekend.

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It wasn't that long ago that people (like me) were questioning this dude's sanity. He orchestrated an offseason that seemed like a training manual on how to meltdown a franchise. (He actually wanted Matt Cassel to be his quarterback!) Since then, all he's done is go out and win his first five games, including a dramatic come-from-behind victory over his old team. Denver fans are in love. Brandon Marshall is happy. Kyle Orton is alive! How did he do it?

It took some luck and a good schedule, but they are making big plays when big plays are needed—kind of like the Patriots always used to do. (So are we all agreed that the Patriots are no longer THE PATRIOTS? People are not afraid of the Belichick/Brady Monster anymore and it's not because of that trick knee.) It's clear that unlike many of Bill Belichick's proteges, Josh was actually paying attention when he worked there.

Denver is undefeated a third of the way through the season and if they beat San Diego next week they can probably start printing playoff tickets. It's looking very possible that this guy knows what he's doing.

With Win Over Patriots, Josh McDaniels No Longer Just Bill Belichick's Understudy [NESN]
‘Boy Wonder' Josh McDaniels savors biggest victory yet [Boston Herald]
Orton emerges as calm, victorious leader [ESPN]
Lack of postgame handshake was planned by Bill Belichick, Josh McDaniels [USA Today]
McDaniels' Mile High Moment [BroncoTalk]
Gratuitous fist pumps aside, it's time to trust Josh McDaniels [West Word]
Is Anyone Afraid of the Broncos? [NY Times]
[Image via Sports Hernia]

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Here are some other big winners, who did not win quite as big:

The Angels: They figured out how to put away the Red Sox, which is nice and all, but now they've got to figure out how to put away the Yankees. How about a Rally Gorilla?

Miles Austin: 10 catches, 250 yards, and two very big touchdowns late in the game for Dallas. So what if it was against Kansas City? They still used 11 players on defense. (At least I think so. Who knows what's going on down there?) [Star-Telegram]

Tim Tebow: His defense completely won this game, but don't think for a second that this isn't going down as "The Concussion Game" in the Good Book of Tebow Lore. Adversity, overcome!

Cedric Benson & Carson Palmer: I'm not going to say Mike Zimmer won the weekend, since his wife died on Thursday, but he got the game ball after an emotional victory. Benson was the first RB to get 100 on the Ravens in 40 games and Palmer may finally be back to where he was before that knee injury almost destroyed the franchise. Plus, a bonehead penalty by Ray Lewis helped keep the winning drive alive, so that was nice too. [Cincinnati Enquirer]

Owen Schmitt: Vaults on to the list of the NFL craziest/dumbest players by making himself bleed his own blood with his own helmet. He should get that head checked out. [ClubSeats/NoJoshin']

Alex Rodriguez: .455 AVG, 2 HR, 6 RBI in a rout of the Twins. Still not a true Yankee?

Game Notes:

• Gerbil extremely agitated today. Tried to jump off table multiple times
• Frog extremely sedate, but had a fire hose of piss shoot out of him after initial contact.
• Gerbil left one stray piece of fecal matter at the 30.
• Frog just chillin', getting fat.
• Gerbil's heart rate about 180 bpm throughout game.
• Frog could wear Cowboys helmet all day.

A High Point In The Brandon Marshall Soap Opera Makes A Fan Go Mushy [The Watch]

Video by Gawker boy genius Mike Byhoff

Game notes:

• We had no Bengals helmet. so Frog is seen wearing a Browns helmet.
• Gerbil does not like wearing helmet.
• Gerbil trampled Frog twice, but Frog was unfazed.
• Frog prefers cover 2 defense.
• Frog urinated on Browns helmet.
• Gerbil — excited. Pooped in end zone.

Video: Gawker genius Mike Byhoff

Wacky Touchdown Gives Broncos 12-7 Win Over Bengals [Yahoo!]

He was remarkably ineffective all day on Sunday, despite getting to throw into the Bengals secondary. He basically got away with not one, but two interceptions on his team's final drive. His last pass of the day was a terrible wounded duck that no NFL quarterback should ever be proud of. Yet, somehow it turned into a 87-yard touchdown, the longest last-minute, game-winning touchdown in NFL history. He even created a Gus Johnson sighting! And Kyle Orton, boo-booed finger and all, is 1-0.

You know who isn't 1-0? Gentleman Jay Cutler, the fella whose temper tantrum sent Orton to Denver in the first place. Jay did not get away with an interception on his attempt at a game-winning drive. There were also three other occasions where he did not get away with it either. That's his career high for interceptions and a loss against a division rival. And more crying.

So Denver, which looked like a season-long soap opera in the making, is sitting pretty this Monday morning while the Bears may be wondering what they have gotten themselves into. And the forgotten, unwanted Kyle Orton—by not tripping over his own feet and ruining everything—is the one who got them there. (Yes, it was pure dumb luck, but that's the best kind of luck.) When even NPR (i.e. Socialist HQ) is talking about you, know you had a good day.

Bizarre Ending in Cincinnati Sees Broncos Top Bengals 12-7 [NFL Gridiron Gab]
It's Always Sunny in Denver… [Bronco Talk]
Kyle Orton Mistake Gives Broncos The Win [Predominantly Orange]
Wacky TD gives Broncos 12-7 win over Bengals [NPR]
Brandon Stokley nearly kills Gus Johnson [Outside The Boxscore]
Jay Cutler's hot head, cold hand hurt Bears [Chicago Tribune]

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Here are some other big winners, who did not win quite as big:

Drew Brees: Six touchdown passes! Against Lions? Oh, that's good too I guess. [Who Dat Dish]

Kim Clijsters: Lost in all the ball-in-throat-stuffing death threats? Kim Clijsters kind of kicked Serena Williams' ass. Then she won the whole shebang-a-bang at the U.S. Open. Good job, Mom. [NY Daily News]

Dan LeFevour: Central Michigan's four-year starting QB broke Byron Leftwich's MAC career yardage mark, then nailed down a signature win that will get him free drinks in the Lower Peninsula for the rest of his life. Boy, I sure feel bad for the chumps who blew that game! [Some MAChole]

Tony Romo: No Jessica, No T.O. Life is significantly sunnier in Dallas. [AP]

Rich Rodriguez: NCAA investigation or no, as long as Charlie Weis has a job, Rich Rodriguez is going to be okay. [Detroit News]

The Broncos won their final preseason game—a pivotal matchup against the Cardinals that signifies absolutely nothing— despite not having the services of Cowboy Kyle Orton who injured his dialing finger in the last game. He was reduced to being just an observer. An interested observer. A very interested observer. Or maybe just a confused one?

Ironically, that's the face most Bronco fans make everytime Kyle Orton drops back to pass. "Yeeesh!"

Broncos' backups salvage finale [Denver Post]

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It's Friday. Grab your headbands and neckerchiefs so we can get this over with.

1. Well, that all went to shit in a relative snap. I don't think I've ever seen an organization go from model franchise to baffling train wreck so quickly. Have you ever seen a new coach wear out his welcome faster than Josh McDaniels? Usually, it takes at least one regular season game before the fans start drunkenly calling for your big stupid head. But I mean, really, HOLY SHIT. Look at this Neckbeard pick, Broncos fans. You get THAT for a whole year because Pat Bowlen got miffed that Jay Cutler didn't return his fucking phone calls, and because McDaniels decided a QB who can throw for 4,500 yards just wasn't good enough for him. Here are some quotes from actual Broncos fans in the wake of Jay Cutler's trade.

Josh McDaniels is the motherfucking antichrist as far as I'm concerned. He needs to die in a fire yesterday. Jesus FUCKING Christ…

Josh McDaniels, I hope you choke and die on Pat Bowlen's dick…

In honor of having the Neckbeard, I'm drinking tonight. I have to work tomorrow but I don't fucking care. It's not every day that your team gets Kyle Orton for its best player. God damn it…

I've got to look at that fuck on the sidelines every game, and enjoy watching my team turn into the FUCKING Patriots, only without the success.

And this was even BEFORE Orton stuck it up in the preseason. Here are some MORE delightfully hateful quotes from Deadspin readers.

The team is now in the hands of a hated no talent ass clown, a queef stain of unprecedented size, stench, and douchitude. Fuck you to death, McDaniels…

I'm also looking forward to future drafts with McDaniels, in which he drafts 5th round character guys in the 3rd round and magically turns first round picks into second round picks. He's crafty and shrewd like that…

Way to establish a reservoir of good will there, Josh. That state is fucking bonkers for the Broncos, and it took you all of one offseason to drain their enthusiasm entirely. Why don't you and Todd Haley try winning a game before trying to go all Macho Man on everyone else? It's as if every Belichick disciple sent into the world magically turns into the Cleveland Belichick. It's uncanny, really. The only thing they bring with them is surly, arrogant dickishness, and not actual football acumen.

2. Hey loogit, someone just got themselves suspended. The team just now suspended charming wife beater Brandon Marshall for the rest of the preseason for conduct detrimental to the team. Which leaves the Broncos a receiving corps of Eddie Royal and the cast of "Fame". It's a refreshing change from the days when the team brought in criminals like Maurice Clarett. The team's new position: no players of ANY sort. I think that should be an improvement.

Marshall is a turd, to be certain. Just look at the report from practice:

The punishment stems from Marshall's shameful display of unprofessionalism during practice Wednesday. He was lackadaisical during individual running drills. He didn't run routes or catch passes during another position drill, instead choosing to hold a dummy and knocking the receivers as they came off the line.

A KMGH-7 video caught Marshall punting the ball away after one drill instead of handing it to a ball boy, as the players are told.

But keep in mind: the Broncos may look like good guys for suspending Marshall. But they were the ones who also asked Marshall's ex-girlfriend to keep quiet about the all the fun times Marshall tried to wipe ketchup off of her mouth using a fucking brick. But now that he's been lazy in practice, OH NO! WE NEVER LIKED THIS FELLOW TO BEGIN WITH! Way to box yourself into a corner there, fellas. What a disaster. Oh, and the defense is horrific.

3. They became the 49ers after the 49ers stopped being the 49ers. During their late 90's Super Bowl title runs, the Broncos came to epitomize pretty much all of the annoying qualities of the Niners during their dynasty. Arrogant coach branded as some kind of genius/mastermind/guru/giant throbbing brain in a glass jar? Check. EXCESSIVE, ILLEGAL CUT BLOCKING? Check. Flagrant salary cap violations? Check. Lame end zone celebration? Check. (The Mile High Salute? Really?) A distinct whiff of organizational haughtiness that makes me want to paint the walls with their children's blood? Oh yes. Only the Broncos were worse because Shannon Sharpe was also involved. Any team that gets Shannon Sharpe a Super Bowl and the right to brag about it for years to his 37 bastard kids is a team I want no part of. In fact, let's just make it a separate item.

4. FUCK YOU, SHANNON. Let's take a walk down memory lane and revisit these quotes from Shannon to Rick Reilly:

I got three kids. You didn't know that, did you? Let's not go into what happened. Three kids, all born around the same year [1992], when I acted a fool. Three kids by different women, just say that. I'm not proud of that. I was stupid. But I love my kids. Two girls [Kayla and Kaley] and a boy [Kiari]. I call them. I see them. I'd love to call them and see them more, but I hate talking to their mothers! Hate! My grandmother didn't raise me to hate anybody, but I really hate hearing their voices. Why? Because if I was Joe America, making $20,000 a year, I don't think I'd have any kids, put it that way…

"It's too bad. I think I could be a good dad. I'm not bad, but I could be better. I had two rottweilers [Kane and Killian], and I treated those dogs like humans. They slept in my bed-and not just at the bottom. They had to sleep on the pillows. I'd go to Morton's [steakhouse] and get them steaks! They had birthday cake on their birthdays! They had chicken gravy on everything they ate! But they died. I will never have a pet again, because I never want to feel as bad as I felt when they died.

So to sum up: Sharpe won't visit his kids because he hates their mothers, but if he was a better dad, he'd feed them too much gravy and kill them. Awesome.

5. They're Rick Reilly's favorite team. That's why there's no BUCKING them this year!

I'll let reader Justin sum up his hatred of the Broncos best:

The irony of John Elway's horseteeth and Shannon Sharpe's horseteeth together on a team with a Horse for a mascot, Terrell Davis' knees and braces, Barrelman, Fans shouting INCOMPLETE in unison, The Drive and The Fumble and my life as a Browns fan, Mile High anything, the entire Cutlerfuck saga, Brandon Marshall slipping on a McDonalds wrapper and literally morphing into "bad" TO, no name fucking fantasy running backs single handedly ushering us into the "running back by committee" era, Karl Fucking Mecklenburg, Little Tommy Jackson, Rulon Weedeater Bowl Jones and any other "Orange Crush" alumnus, The Three Amigos, Their original AFL uniforms, Coors, Pat Bowlen, Dan Reeves, Mike Shanahan, 32 year old head coaches named McDaniels, Coors Light, Football on TV and TWINS!!! Gah!

For starters.

Well said. Fuck the Broncos, and fuck Colorado.

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Marshall has not played in either of the Broncos preseason games because he fully admits that he hasn't bothered to learn the playbook. Then he threw a temper tantrum at practice on Wednesday (helpfully captured by local news crews), by walking through running drills, punting balls across the field instead of giving them to ball boys, and knocking down passes instead of catching them. Basically just being a gigantic baby. He was not allowed to practice on Thursday as a result.

The disgruntled wide receiver told ESPN last night that he isn't trying to force a trade, even though he's been asking for one for months. That's good news, because no one is going to want to trade for a spoiled brat wide receiver. (There's plenty of those to go around.) He says he's "frustrated" over ... playing in Denver, I guess, and apologized for his behavior. That doesn't mean he's suddenly interested in cooperating with offense, however.

So for now Denver is stuck with him, their only recourse being a maximum four-game suspension. UPDATE: And that's exactly what they've done. He's just been suspended for the rest of the preseason for "conduct detrimental to the team."

Of course, there is one constant between both the Jay Cutler saga and the Marshall one—Josh McDaniels. The only thing he seems to have accomplished in his first offseason is pissing off his team's two best players and winning the respect of no one. Should be a good year in Broncoland!

Brandon Marshall Makes A Mockery Of Practice [ABC7]
Denver Broncos' WR Brandon Marshall misses practice again, likely out Sunday [ESPN]
Broncos can't send Marshall home with pay [ProFootballTalk]

•Joe Maddon goes the Just For Men route, dyeing his hair jet black to turn around the Rays' fortunes. It worked for Wicked Lester, didn't it?

•Nationals GM says it's "unlikely" Stephen Strasburg will pitch for the team this year. You should probably read that as: it's "likely" the Nationals would like to avoid having his four-year deal kick in until 2010.

•Another day, another Brandon-Marshall-pissed-off-at-the-Broncos story. This time it's because a team flack told players not to express too much joy at Marshall's acquittal on domestic violence charges last week. No word on how much joy they would have been allowed to express had he been found guilty.

•Old folks who should probably be retired keep coming back. This time it's John Smoltz, who's close to a deal with the Cardinals. Not a bad move: they're a little short on starting pitching, and he'll automatically become the third best hitter in that lineup.

•Pedro Martinez and Jamie Moyer combine for nine innings, four hits, one run, eight strikeouts, and thirty thousand, eight hundred and eighty nine days on earth. And one win.

•The NCAA is investigating the eligibility of Tennessee freshman RB Bryce Brown, and some alleged recruiting violations involving cash for college visits. But here's the shocking part: Lane Kiffin had nothing to do with it!

•Look, just because Kevin Gregg has blown a fifth of his save opportunities, and just because he's got a double-digit ERA this month, and just because you can hear the collective sphincter of Cubs fans tightening every time he comes in, is no reason to take him out of the closer's role. Actually, those are all pretty good reasons.

It's not officially the NFL preseason until the rookies start getting hazed. That's Broncos rookie quarterback Tom Brandstater with the Friar Tuck haircut, and while it looks kind of embarrassing, pair him with Chad Ochocinco, and it's the second coming of the Legion Of Doom.

Denver Bronco Rooking Hazing at its Best [Union]

*****

It's Saturday. Let me show you something.

Ah, the wisdom of children! It was bad enough when Cutler whined and cried his way to a trade to Chicago, but he crossed another line this week by proclaiming Denver fans to be less than passionate boosters.

"In Denver, we didn't have this many fans at all," he said. "We weren't even able to accommodate that many fans [at practice]. That's Chicago Bears fans for you. They're proud of their Bears.

"It's a lot [different]. Denver's like a 6 and Chicago's like a 9," Cutler said during the interview. "It's quite a bit different. Just the fans and how passionate they are, that's probably the biggest difference."

Well, this Denver fan has your 6 right here ... and oh, look at that ... now it's on fire! Jay Cutler may never take notice of this YouTube video and others that may follow, but that doesn't really matter. This is a cleansing fire, meant to burn away the scars and melt the icy shackles that the Bears quarterback has encased around Colorado hearts.

Bathe in the flames, Children, and you will be born anew!

I Believe the Children are Our Future [Slanch Report]
Jay Cutler rates Chicago Bears fans over Denver Broncos fans; Kyle Orton booed at practice [ESPN]

Shanahan still had two years left on his contract with Denver when the team fired him in January, giving him plenty of time to golf with Steve Spurrier. Woody Paige reports—seriously, he actually reported it!—that Shanahan has a clause in that contract saying that he will continue to earn his $7 million salary, provided he doesn't find another coaching job or say anything in public that might disparage the Broncos. Geez, I would have spent a whole year not talking about the Broncos for half that!

Admittedly, it's very difficult to watch Kyle Orton quarterback any team without hurling a string of expletives at anyone within ear shot, but for that much cash I'm sure he'll manage. As long as Woody doesn't rat him out first.

He told a friend privately that the Broncos have added some talent, and he expects them to be better this year. He told another friend privately that the Broncos made a mistake by trading Cutler for Kyle Orton.

Shut up, old man! We're talking $7,000,000 here—don't you dare blow this!

Paige: Shanny enjoying time from the grind [Denver Post]
If Mike Shanahan stays quiet, he'll get $7 million this season [Shutdown Corner]

While Henry hasn't been ordered to pay child support to Vanessa Colbert as of yet, she insists that he is, in fact, the father. This would bring his total to 11 children with 10 different mothers. The good news is that now he can field a football team.

The bad news is that he's currently behind in all of his court ordered child support payments, which total $15,000 a month. That's a tall order for a man who is currently in federal custody for violating his release order stemming from drug trafficking charges. But seriously, how's a guy gonna pay his child support if you take away his 11 pounds of cocaine?

It's all a hot mess. When you need a flow chart to keep track of your kids, you made a wrong turn somewhere. He still hasn't surpassed Calvin Murphy, who has 14 children by 9 women, but Henry's still young. He has a long life of unprotected sex ahead of him.

Travis Henry Explains How He Knocked Up All Those Women [Deadspin]

The Denver Broncos will be rolling out their original, orange-and-brown "French's Mustard" uniforms, circa 1960, as part of the NFL's celebration of the 50th anniversary of the AFL this season. All eight original AFL teams will wear replicas of their first uniforms for two games this season, both home and away.

The first Broncos uniforms were so despised that the players actually burned them in a bonfire at the conclusion of the season; well, the socks anyway. It's called by many the worst uniform in football history, and joins the San Diego Padres' early 1980s Ray Kroc baseball unis in the Hall of Brown and Gold Fail.

Wait, is that Josh McDaniels holding up a Jay Cutler jersey? I believe so.

The eight former AFL teams unveiled those uniforms – including Broncos coach Josh McDaniels awkwardly holding up a Jay Cutler jersey in the team's original brown and gold colors — during a Tuesday morning press conference at the NFL's Annual Meeting in Dana Point, Calif.

But one thing that flew under the radar is that the referees assigned to those games also will sport some old-school AFL threads — including the classic orange-striped shirt. Can you imagine how great Ed Hochuli's guns will look in orange?

Celebrating The 50th With Original Uniforms [Broncos.com]
Broncos Infamous 'Gold' Duds Making A Comeback [Denver Post]

According to the Sun-Times:

The Bears acquired quarterback Jay Cutler today for No. 1 draft picks in 2009 and 2010, a No. 3 pick this year and Kyle Orton, the Sun-Times has learned.

The Bears receive the Broncos' fifth-round draft pick this year.

Wow. Anyway, obviously, this also marks the end of the brilliant (for us) Kyle Orton era in Chicago. But lucky for him the winters are quite nasty in Denver as well, so the Neckbeard could possibly return.

Bears get their quarterback in trade with Denver [Chicago Sun-Times]

In an interview with NFL.com on Monday, McDaniels insisted that the Broncos' relationship with Cutler is reparable.

"He's our quarterback," McDaniels said. "We can't predict the future. He's our quarterback, we want him to be our quarterback, we made that very clear to him and we hope he feels the same way. (Trade) Conversations were had and we've never denied that. But at the same time it's our job to look at every opportunity that we can to see if it's something that could improve our football team and that's what we were doing."

Then, there's this bit of middle school drama from the Denver Post:

According to an NFL source, McDaniels sent a text to the disgruntled Cutler before arriving here at the owners meetings. Cutler has yet to respond.

OMG, a text message? Cutler thinks that's disrespectful. And he kind of has a point. If you want to get back together with someone, you don't text them. You show up at their house and wait in the hot tub like in that mop commercial.

McDaniels Downplays Trade Request [Denver Post]
McDaniels Says Relationship With Cutler Isn't Severed [NFL.com]

Things started to get suspicious on Thursday when the disgruntled Broncos quarterback put his $2 million home up for sale. That's usually what you do when you no longer want to live in a place, but maybe he just wanted to move into a tent up in Greeley. Plus, Cutler did meet with his new head coach Josh McDaniels on Saturday and surely a face-to-face conversation would clear up whatever philosophical differences the two gentlemen have about five-step drops.

But now it's Monday and the team's first offseason workouts begin today and Cutler is not even in the state. The latest word is that he is nowhere near the city of Denver and has formally asked the team to trade him.

At the end of the meeting, he wasn't like, 'Jay, I want you as our quarterback, you're our guy.' It felt like the opposite. He basically said that I needed to tell him if we can't work this out, to let him know," Cutler added. "I thought he was antagonizing me and that was disappointing because I was ready to move on, committed as a Bronco."

Cutler says that McDaniels fully admitted that he would rather have Matt Cassel, but even though that's never going to happen the two still can't seem to make nice. McDaniels told his slightly different side of the story:

"Again, I think that's been a pattern. I couldn't get [Cutler] to talk to me for two weeks or to talk to Mr. Bowlen. Then when he came here this weekend, we couldn't get a one-on-one meeting, just me and him alone. He wanted Bus in there, so I had Brian sit in, too. And it was the four of us. There wasn't any yelling, none of that. I can't believe we get to a totally different [interpretation].

It really appears that all McDaniels had to do is say "Jay, you're the best and I love you forever" and everyone could get on with their lives, but it appears that the coach is too proud to beg. So now the Broncos have to try and deal their starting quarterback, yet do it from a weak bargaining position because the guy they are trying to trade is Jay Cutler.

Jay Cutler Tells Denver Broncos To Trade Him - cbs4denver.com [CBS4]
Breaking: Jay Cutler Formally Requests A Trade [But The Game Is On]
Jay Cutler Puts Home Up For Sale [KMGH Denver]

Cutler is still peeved that McDaniels considered trading him this offseason and then maybe wasn't completely up front about it. The head coach and his quarterback have barely spoken in the last month and a conference call that was supposed to patch things up between everybody yesterday, may have made everything much worse. (And conference calls are usually so productive!) The always popular "sources" say that team officials tried to blame the trade dispute on Cutler, while McDaniels would neither confirm nor deny his trade discussions with other teams, so now Cutler may not show up for offseason workouts, which would be his way of forcing a trade.

So let's get this straight. Cutler was happy in Denver, until the team thought about trading him; but since they thought about trading him, his response might be to get himself traded. He doesn't want to be there anymore, but he thinks the team should make him happy anyway by promising not to trade him, even though he already knows that they want to trade him and would do it if they could. Actually, they probably could have traded him already, but didn't, so maybe that's their way of saying they don't really want to trade him?

Are the Broncos being fair to Cutler? Probably not. But is it fair for a quarterback with a 17-20 lifetime record to expect be untouchable? Does Cutler realize that the alternative is playing for the Detroit Lions? You don't ever want to be on one of their conference calls.

Key for Broncos: Get Cutler to show up Monday [ESPN]
Broncos' talk with Cutler sours [Denver Post]
Jay Cutler and Josh McDaniels have been talking — and that's not good news [West Word]
Who's better, Cutler or Cassel? [Upon Further Review]
Could Lions' draft-day deal be in the works for Jay Cutler? [MLive]

Hastings told Patrick his dislike of Cutler began after the punky qb in training boasted about how his arm was better than Elway's and when he didn't show up to the introductory press conference of new head coach Josh McDaniel. From then on, Cutler's been little bitch'd in his eyes.

Hastings was a former NBA player, does Nuggets color commentary, and co-hosts a radio spot on Sportsradio KKFN-FM 104.3 The Fan in Denver.

I'd say the chances of having Cutler appear on that program anytime soon are pretty slim.

Some Guy Does Not Like Jay Cutler [With Leather]