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Jay Cutler's Absence From Broncos Camp Costs Him $100,000

Mar 30, 2009 – 5:59 PM
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Josh Alper

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We're nearing the end of the first month of public hostility between Jay Cutler and the Denver Broncos, and the impasse has claimed its first victim. Its first 100,000 victims, actually. Cutler has now missed more than 10 percent of the Broncos' offseason conditioning program, which means he misses out on a $100,000 workout bonus.

Not all the news is bad, though. Word surfaced this weekend that Cutler and coach Josh McDaniels have been communicating, which is a good sign if they hope to work together in 2009 and beyond. Alas, even this silver lining has a touch of gray. They've only communicated through text message.

Far be it from me to use a blog post to rail against the way that technology is changing the way people interact with each other, but text messaging? Seriously? Sending text messages back and forth is a fine way to find your friends when you're out on a Saturday night, but it's a god-awful way to run a professional football team.

Perhaps the walls will finally come tumbling down when McDaniels sends a bit of Facebook flair and Cutler tweets a heartfelt response. Then the two of them can share a teary video chat before co-developing an iPhone app to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again.

And then they can both go back to Mrs. Callahan's fourth grade classroom in time for social studies.

Both men, and clearly the term should be used loosely, should be mature enough to just sit down in a room and figure out if they can work together. Maybe they can't, which would be a shame but at least it would enable everyone to start the process of moving on like adults.
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