Crazy for Cutler
Cutler Crazy
The Fire McDaniels campaign is well under way, and admittedly I’m on board. My yard doesn’t look anything like this, but that doesn’t mean that the thought hasn’t crossed my mind. It’s hard to watch the demise of a franchise whose fans are the most passionate in the NFL. All of you deserved better than the last three months of this total train wreck. I was listening to Sandy Clough on 104.3 the Fan the way home today and agreeing with almost everything he said . (Just a*note*, that isn’t always the case). I also agreed with one of his callers. This will set the Broncos back decades. Want to see what the 2009 Broncos season will look like. Go back to about 1964. That’s how much damage has been done. I think the quotes from John Elway a week ago were appropriate. This is indeed a sad time for one of the NFL’s best franchises.
Life after the Rocky
I have received several comments lately about where you can find my cartoons on 9News. I’ll let you know when they can get a web page built. The cartoons will be posted there. I mentioned that I was planning an animation for Friday, but there may be a change, so stay tooned. My future with 9News will be determined by viewer response to the cartoons they are showing on air, and eventually on their website. If you are so inclined feel free to let the folks at 9News if you like the cartoons on the air. Drawing cartoons for a TV station is basically the same as it is for the Thursday night sitcom. No ratings=No show. Quite honestly that is what the situation is at KUSA. I’m making the pilot, in hopes they order another 14 episodes.
Meeting and Greeting.
I had the incredible pleasure of meeting with John Brackney yesterday. John is the President of the South Metro Chamber of Commerce. What an incredibly great guy! And, overall, his staff was just terrific and very encouraging. I have so much to learn about Life after the Rocky and John was willing to spend some time with me showing me a little about what it takes to start your own business. They even have classes ( some of them totally free) on business basics. I’ll let you know when I decide to take one. Starting my own freelance business (www.Littoonzstudios.com) is a bit scary and also very exciting. Like so many others, losing your job in this economy does amazing things to your central nervous system, especially if you are a worrier like I am. But there are so many things I want to do. Children’s Books, Greeting Cards, Graphic Novels, Animation, even teaching some classes. So it’s time to jump into the pool and start swimming. If you are a freelancer I would love to connect with you, maybe even do coffee or lunch. I’ll buy. One last thing. Don’t forget to enter the Caption Contest. I so want us to get over 100 entries!
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Great Cartoon and I agree but I think you should have put a fire Pat Bowlin in there aswell!!
One other thing Drew come on wheres the love for the Nuggets??
My sister’s yard and office looks very much like your cartoon.
Good Morning from Omaha,
My wife always says its easy to complain about what you don’t know.
Jay was/is a known commodity. We all knew his strengths and weaknesses.
Like some of the food my wife makes, we don’t know if Josh is the proverbial
liver and onions, yuck, or one of my new favorites, salmon steaks with lemon,
off the grill.
All of he ingredients don’t look good individually but give Pat Bowlen a chance to make
his cake and see what comes out of the oven.
We game Herm Edwards two years, even though we knew he had a losing record coming into
the chiefs offices. What happened after that included a 9-6 record, a lousy play off game against the Colts and
in the next two years they went “young” and the chiefs only won 6 games.
At least Josh doesn’t have a record coming in to judge him by but he does have a
“pedigree” of sorts.
At one time even Vince Lombardi was a rookie NFL coach, he probably wasn’t 32, but he was rookie NFL coach.
I understand that in todays NFL ,coaches aren’t given much rope but they have to be given at least the package the rope comes in before they are hung by the fans.
Gene
I’m saving my Nuggets love for the playoffs. I think this year they are way beyond the first round, don’t you?
Drew, I like your cartoon but I disagree with you on fireing Coach M. We will never know the real reasons why Jay left because all we here is he-said/he-said or did not say. There are a lot of good QB’s in the league with some that are exceptional. Look at Rothlisburger (probably spelled wrong) he is a good QB but not exceptional like Manning or Brady. He has won a superbowl or two. Cutler has shown that he could be an exceptional QB but is has also shown that he can be average at best. The future will only tell if he becomes a Manning or Brady or a also ran. But the past has shown us that a good QB can win superbowls. I do beleive that coach M has the skills to take the Broncos to the superbowl with a good QB that is a leader of this team. Jay was a child that didn’t know how to lead and what it means to be dedicated to his team through good and bad times. He has a better chance of turning out like T.O. moving from team to team and wearing out his welcome each team he goes to.
The Broncos don’t need that.
Gene,
You always have some of the greatest comments. Your insight and point of view is always interesting and you bring along some very informative stuff. And the Salmon sounds very good. Shark and swordfish steaks are pretty great too. But my favorite… Josh McDaniels on the grill, with a twist of lime.
Give it two years and this team will be tough, no one will want to play them in the playoffs, yes playoffs. Give it a chance Drew. Go Broncs!
Drew, did we ever schedule a lunch date?
Love him or hate him, Broncos Fan’s have been very lucky to have Pat Bowlen as the Owner of Denver’s most beloved sports team. As long as Mr. Bowlen is the owner, I believe Broncos fans don’t have to worry about being a periannial Detroit Lions type franchise.
The last time the Head Coach and Starting QB had a “either you’re going or I’m going” major conflict, Bowlen sided with John Elway and fired Dan Reeves. After a few mediocore seasons with Wade Phillips and then hiring Mike Shanahan, it appeared that Bowlen made the right choice.
However, it took several years to make that determination and it’s going to take time in this case as well. The guy hasn’t coached a single game yet… give it season or two.
John Harbaugh came in to a weak offense and a strong defense in Baltimore following a 5-11 season marred by injuries in 2007. He kept the team intact, worked with what he had, drafted well and finished 11-5 in 2008.
I don’t see why “the new coach” in Denver, with a strong offense and a week defense, following a 8-8 season marred by injuries in 2008 should be held to less than a winning season in 2009 and better results in future years. It was his decision to blow up much of the team and he should be held accountable by his record for his decisions.
Stan,
Let’s try for next week. My schedule has changed a bit with the 9News work.
I don’t why I can’t seem to give McD a chance in my mind.
I think it’s because I associate him with Belichick. I’m so annoyed by the hoodie. If McD would stop wearing the hoodie and looking and sounding like a clone, I might be able to be more open-minded. I don’t want to be Pats-West.
It could also be that he’s not Shanahan, too.
Drew,
Just make sure the Bronco’s don’t go into free agency or draft anyone named “Donner”.
then Josh should worry.
In the kansas city paper there is still a guy who goes by the moniker of “herms the man”
and is still talking about how with just one more year Herm could have brought the chiefs
back to glory.
In pro sports, as in life, it is what have you done for me lately. Josh hasn’t done much of anything for the Bronco’s
except layout his surveyor flags and buy some cement blocks.
We haven’t seen the blueprint yet and yes he has cleared some brush, Cutler and some of the dead weight on defense.
He might have used a Bush hog to clear the brush and not a Bulldozer, but its just a matter of style.
According to shannon Mickie D wears a Hoodie. thats really bad form if your not a Belicheck fan after all the stuff he has allegedly pulled out in New England. But results are what they are and in the NFL thats all that matters.
Take the packaging off the rope Denverites are going to use to hang him and keep the rope handy.
But let him draft and do some fall camp before Bronco fans start tying a noose for Mickie D.
He might just lead your team through the golden arches and into the Super Bowl someday????
Gene
Drew —
Love the cartoon. I’m with you on this. I’m done with the Broncos until this idiot is FIRED. Take away the Cutler mess and you still have questionable decisions, Leach’s release, the firing of the Goodmans and signing 3 RBs all over the age of 30! I’m just sick of the fans defending this moron.
He was the OC of a record setting offense that piled on points in unsportsman-like way. Oh and that vaunted offense? It choked in the Super Bowl and couldn’t adjust to the Giant’s pass rush even though Boy-Wonder has played this same team a month earlier. Results are every thing in the NFL? What results? He didn’t draft Brady or develop him. He was a ‘personal’ assistant during the first Super Bowl year. A defensive coach during their second Super Bowl year. He didn’t even start coaching Brady until the 2004 season and by then Brady was an established QB. If the Patriots had not gone 11-5 with the unknown Matt Cassell, no one would have had him on short list for HC jobs.
I have two words for the Pro-McDummy crowd. Brian. Billick. Another ‘outstanding’ OC from the record setting offense Minnesota Vikings of 1998. He was a coach that rode the hype of throwing long to Randy Moss and didn’t do squat once he had run the show in Baltimore. Now Denver has it’s own version. Enjoy the 4-12 season!
Drew,
Wow, a third posting in one day.
Leo in NM should relax and remember that the NFL is a copycat league.
If one team has success using a 3/4 defense, they all want to use a 3/4 defense as the next
new thing. Unfortunately the 3/4 takes very specialized players to make it work.
New england over the past decade has been the IT team. Hence, the assistants from on the field or in the
front office are a hot commodity. See Scott Pioli in KC.
If Bill parcels can continue to work his magic in Miami the assistants that work with tony Sporano will be what is hot and next year the raids of Miami will start. It is a copy cat syndrome.
Unless I miss my guess You are allowed to score as many points as you can in the NFL.
Remember the other team is getting paid also. It’s their job to stop the scoring,
this isn’t professional rassling and there is no script.
The Chiefs have been on the fuzzy end of the Lolipop many times over the last 4-5 years. And they couldn’t score hence they lose.
When Vermeil
was the coach the goal was to keep the opposition to under 30 points. So much for defense.
Toward the end of his era the age of his players started to catchup with them and changes had to be made.
Its a game that generates big money, and offense is what puts the proverbial butts in the seats.
But DEFENSE wins championships.
I am not making excuses for Mickie D but the wheels on the plane are still warm from when he landed.
Let him draft some players, get some Free agents and see what ingredients he has to work with.
30 year old running backs should be running back coaches or brought in to teach the youngsters how to be NFL running backs. You really can’t build much of a stable of running backs if they get hurt because they can’t take the pounding that comes with the position.
Its the off season, its time for all football fans to take a breath and realize that training camps don’t open for another almost 100 days.
Gene
Im sick of Broncos drama, how about those Nuggets
Oh crap, didn’t see your comment above about saving the nuggets for the playoffs, anyway McD should be run out of town with torches and a coach with no relation to the Pats should be brought in
Drew
I cannot disagree more.
Jay Cutler and Bus Cook played this out in the press from the start, painted the Broncos in a corner and then forced a trade.
No Broncos player that I can remember ever treated this franchise with less respect than he did, and He was my favorite player since Elway before this happened.
He proved he was all about Jay Cutler and not the Denver Broncos.
That isn’t like Elway, or Champ Bailey, or Randy Gradishar or Floyd Little or Rod Smith or Terrill Davis or Ed McCaffery or Al Wilson or even Jake Plummer.
So he had a strong arm. Eli Manning won a Super Bowl.
Orton and Simms are more like him than Cutler.
But Manning became a winner once a good system was put in place.
Again, Cutler was my favorite Bronco but I root for the Denver Broncos and he disrespected our franchise so bye and good riddance.
@Dennis
Who painted whom into the corner in this one?
While you think that Jay Cutler disrespected the Broncos, I think that the new coach initiated the process of disrespect by his dangling out Cutler in trade talks, then pretending he was an innocent part in his failed and inept maneuverings. Meanwhile, the organization that lived on Cutler’s talents the last three years tries to turn him into a scapegoat. Some of the most passionate Bronco fans aren’t buying it.
Try being in an organization where you bled for it and won some victories with meager resources, then a new person comes in, stabs you in the back, then tarnishes your name. You might be a bit stand-offish and disrespectful too.
Respect is a two-way street. Contrast Cutler in a suit at his press conference not wanting to rehash the dispute and new coach in his hoodie and a distant Patrick Bowlen putting down “the player” or being holier than thou in their responses to what they started.
Well said Baltimore !
Couldn’t disagree more.
Cutler pouted his way out of town. That’s the kind of guy you want leading your team? What kind of leader takes his ball and goes home?
I cant give Little Joshy a season, way to many mistakes made in first three months!!!
Sometimes ya’ gots to take one for the team. Cutler wanted out from the first minute he heard Shannie was fired. The Cassel whispers just gave him a reason to cause a ruckus and get a better contract. So sorry it didn’t work out that way. Orton isn’t the second coming, but he may be a more than adequate “system-back” then prima donna Cutler. He does have a winning record and has shown resolve on an offense best described as pre-Cambrian. Go Broncos 13-3 in 2009.