So because Jay has 3 years of tenure as a QB and Josh has zero as a head coach...Jay is automatically excused?We don't know if Cutler can win a Super Bowl with us.
I do believe that if 2008 Cutler had been on our 2005 team we don't lose that game to Pittsburgh.
I do believe that if 2008 Cutler was on the 2008 Steelers they still win a Super Bowl.
If you want to line up players and ask, "can he be a part of my next world championship team" I would say "yes" to Cutler, when I was emphatic about my "NO" to both Plummer and Griese very early on in their Broncos careers.
My yes to Cutler is not a "YES!!!" at this point but he has all the skills I need, and he isn't a bad leader on the field. His problems are showing up now in temperament and handling, but those can be managed. Kurt Warner and Dan Marino both take things extremely personally too. Both have had pretty good careers.
I don't know about McDaniels. Nobody knows. He's never been a head coach for even one game in his life. We have no idea if he's the next Shanahan or Belichick, or the next promising young talent who implodes when he gets the head job.
I'd prefer for them to work it out together. If they can't, my money's on Cutler to do better away from us (assuming no Lions gig) than McDaniels will do with us, since I don't think McD would be able to get a QB in here who can be effective enough fast enough for him to avoid the angry outrage of the fans who bet their life savings and hearts on Cutler being The One. So I hope it doesn't come to that.
But on the "do we know if he's a franchise anything?" question, I'd say Jay has proven waaaaaay more than McDaniels, which is why it's hard to take McD's side. McDaniels may wind up being the greatest coach of the next 20 years, but right now he looks dumb and vulnerable.
~G