Jay Cutler Talks Rookie QBs, Favorite Bears Memories & His Beef With Phillip Rivers

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helicopter man that would be dope and then you could take me to Charlottesville on your way back to Nashville just it's kind of like along the way so anyways uh I want to talk to you about the uh the current NFL landscape with quarterbacks man I the number one question I have for you is like with all these rookie QBs uh and I feel like with the dudes is just retired there's this big turnover you want to see who's going to be carrying the mantle the next 10 years or whatever what system do you think is the most quarterback friendly to enter for one of these rookie QBs I mean we've got Carolina we've got some other ones which one would would Young Jay Cutler want to join none of them you know I I got lucky because I was 11th and Shanahan was in Denver so they traded oh they were in the AFC Championship game so I mean that's kind of we I just did this show with you know Danny canal and Steve and these guys and it's you look at some of these teams and it doesn't matter who your quarterback is like your spirit doesn't matter your system you're screwed like you just don't have enough Talent on your side of the ball I mean when people unless your defense is great you're not going to be successful so for the you know for Bryce and CJ and Anthony Richardson he's a more of an athlete than those guys and I think his team's a little bit better um yeah that would be the one place I would want to go if I was any of those three but if I had a choice I wouldn't go to any of them one of them uh is with our guy Josh McCown in Carolina um he's got that going for him in Bryce young I mean what what do you think you you had a bunch of quarterback coaches I'm sure and I can remember like looking at my boys like Bradford them and seeing them go through all these different coordinators and on top of it QB coaches and if I learned anything in d-line rooms like all position coaches are not created equal there are some guys who are definitely faking it until they make it and I'm wondering if that's a big problem you know not having that Josh McCown in there and what difference it makes to have one it's going to help because Josh has been there he's done it um he's very patient he's detail-oriented and he cares he cares so much and that's what you want that's what your boy your coach you want your coach to put you in the best position and you want him to care that's kind of who Josh is at a core I mean I remember when he first got to Chicago and uh you know he had had a lengthy career at that point already and he was so genuine I'm kind of looking around the room like is this guy is he really is he this actually this guy and the more you're around him that's exactly who he is so he's going to help Bryce but like we were just talking about unless they get some more dudes in there to help Bryce on the field it doesn't really matter what happened to the meeting yeah well I mean one of the guys not a rookie but a guy that uh a lot of excitement around him in Justin fields and obviously you played in Chicago you know what the pressure is like all that uh what do you see from him and like if you've had a chance to look at that game what can they do differently is there an effect in week one where it's not totally a full picture at you know what you've worked to become as a team like can you just truly flush stuff you know like New York wants to flush that game how different can it be and what are the things that keep week one from looking like who you really are you know that's all about you and quarterbacks involves the year goes on I watched that game uh with my oldest son because he thinks that the Bears are going to go to the Super Bowl and obviously he was mistaken but I I know me too he was devastated but watching that game you could tell you could tell that Justin he you know Lesh was kind of one-two run and this year he kind of tried to stop it try to deliver the ball and you're just kind of looking at them going go go go use your legs more I think he only had 30 or 40 yards rushing where it's just the way that offense is built and the way he is a player you know you want him to run especially early on in the year and get his feet wet and kind of develop into the quarterback like it's not going to happen one year to the next uh you know when it comes to Chicago or you have the belief that you know you you stock the room with Talent around him immediately if you're like a GM because some of the Bears fans are like oh we need to be careful like uh you want to save some draft capital in case he's not the guy I kind of feel like you've got to throw everything at a Young quarterback to find out if he's the guy because if he doesn't have the pieces around him you're not really getting a full look oh totally agree I mean you got to get guys around him um you know when I was in Denver with like I think the next movie drafts would be a b with me we had tied in with me the next year they drafted left tackle we brought it off and some lying guys uh we brought in uh more tight ends with our assault receivers like it was offense offense offense like today was he was going to give me the best possible chance to go after and succeed so uh Chicago I mean they need to help him out I mean if you're going to let them go out there with half an offense he's not going to do very well do you like seeing DJ more decking a guy for Justin Fields was that like did Brandon do that sometimes for you Brandon definitely did that he would he was exactly looking for a fight so um I'd like to see it you know as a coach she did go back and forth on it you're like all right that's great we're protecting our teammates but we've done it once you've got his back let's not let's not do it again um when it comes to quarterbacks now is there somebody that reminds you of Jay Cutler Ah that's a slippery slope to get into because you know like you know I don't know I is there a guy with the balls that Jay Cutler had on the field right now that you're like I identify with that guy you know I think there's a lot of dudes out there that really sling it and let it fly I think you know or uh past friendly uh NFL world than it was whenever I played you know it was more uh take care of the ball fundamentals uh one hitch two hits throw the ball now you look at these guys and it's there's no rules yeah and they can't get hit so yeah we were just talking about it um in studio it's like we're they're showing uh late hits on quarterbacks and the guys was like that was completely legal whenever we were playing so it's just it's a different game I think it's good for the game it's the fans obviously like that but I think there's a handful there's actually there's a lot of dudes out there that can sling in all right so you were saying um that the rules have changed obviously you all used to get decked it was like a totally different game oh yeah I look back at some of the highlights from like the the early years that I was playing even in like 08 in 2010 and the stuff we would have got fined for is crazy who was like the scariest dude maybe out in that AFC West when you played there and then when you got in the NFC North that you actually had to think about on game day oh gosh I remember you're my second year it was uh we were playing Jacksonville and they had Stroud and um who was the other guy in Jackson's all I'm trying to think uh seven or something yeah 2007. uh Henderson oh the guy that got slapped in the face yeah he used to get slapped in the face before the game and they're both like six foot seven six eight they played one and three technique and like you just dropped back the pass and they were just like volleyball players and then if they got a hold of you it was curtains yeah I I figured you know yeah the Ravens defense um Palmolive with the Steelers you know he's playing cover two from agap that was always like this is insanity um how about you know I asked you who who's a guy that uh that reminds you of you that's a tougher one but like how about a guy that you respect right now that maybe maybe not the best quarterback but that you're you're like that guy's got the deck stacked against him and he just keeps answering the Bell I think if you look at uh 49ers quarterback I mean he came from nowhere won a bunch of games tore his arm up and so now you're thinking he's got three had to do um he's gonna be the same guy Trey was there they drafted high with him um and then he goes out there and puts on a public performance in week one I think it's a testament I was chaining hands but that's awful Testament uh um you know what kind of kid that kid what kind of kid that is what kind of character he is Stafford like has really earned I think a lot of people's respect I I think yeah I've always had a lot of respect for him being a choice I mean he used to get his he used to get kicked in every week um but he can sing it and he would he was tough as males he would go out there every single week played through a lot of injuries I was happy to see him do his Super Bowl and continue to be playing yeah well yesterday I was shocked I mean like I got a lot of respect for the guy but I keep waiting for the bottom to fall out because he has been hit a lot and you know there have been injuries over the last couple years and I I guess I wonder like as you were an older quarterback what are the little things that that that dictate where that slope is because we as fans and as even d-line I can't see it you don't know if a quarterback's gonna show up and that ledge is pretty steep so like what are the things that kind of fall apart on you that people might not think about well I think it's your hips but I mean I think he's such a natural freak Show thrower that he's he he can play forever because he can just sit back there and swing it I mean his arm is never really going to go away unless he just kind of stops using it so and mentally he's going to be smarter and smarter and smarter each year so it's one of those things that's how much do you want to keep putting up with a headache how much do you want to keep doing a training camp how much do you actually like the grind of week in a week out I don't think it's ever really going to be a physical or I don't think I mean obviously when it gets in its 40s late 40s or whatever if it gets at that bar I mean I mean Brady did it but he wasn't even close to a physically talented as as Stephanie's were you surprised Brady was able to do it so long I feel like that's such a chalky question but I never hear a quarterback answer candidly he never got hit that much yeah I mean they that offensive line was really good he got rid of the ball really really fast he had talents and talented players defense was always really really good um it was a perfect fit I mean you need to make the most of it absolutely but and he also was super healthy I mean you don't know all about his his that raging that he was on but he just didn't get hit a lot yeah well you talked about um you know Stafford in division with you obviously you have a lot of respect for him you and rivers John back and forth I forgot about this whole thing were you in rivers actually like were y'all were y'all did y'all yeah we didn't really like each other and we I don't think we really ever met off the field but we definitely did not like each other for those couple years um the ideas they beat it we beat him early in the season my third year and then they beat us late this season for the playoffs um but we did not like that team and they did not like us they were bad they were a lot better defensively than we are they always been like Berryman was playing and a bunch of those guys so I mean they had some juice but we uh before my third year we we pressed against uh Dallas yeah and we we were we it was the sole reason was because they were in the same defense as San Diego and we just game plan for San Diego versus Dallas and we just run and played to see what would work I mean we did not like those boys at all yeah well I heard maryman Merriman was just on uh some podcast I I knew it I'd credit it but um it was uh one of these Instagram reels and he was talking about the 06 Chargers and he said that's the best team to not win a Super Bowl in in NFL history possibly do you buy that well yeah LT was on it Phil was on it uh he was unblockable I mean for whatever reason you want to say yeah yeah he was a beast though I mean whatever was going on it was he had a run man that was crazy oh he was literally unblockable I mean in my first year we didn't have the tackle then we had Ryan he came in and kind of slowed him down but uh they were the secondary was good um it was a really really good team and for some reason they just couldn't put it together like uh we uh there was actually a poll that just came out and Chargers fans were ranked pretty uh pretty low I think as far as like the most disliked fan bases and it had me thinking what's like for a quarterback what's the actual toughest place to play maybe not the loudest but where people are actually just like insufferable and they get in your head a little bit well the old the old Oakland stadium was brutal did you ever play there baseball yeah yeah but yeah and and you tried to not like hit the ground around the 50-yard line because yeah you were in the [ __ ] and the locker room was about the locker room was about this SUV I'm in right now yeah no question and then the fans I can come in because we were uh division arrivals and you'd come in and you'd have little kids you need a finger you have them sucking beer cans off the bus it just stopped to go there the stadium was in the middle of nowhere no but um I never really liked playing in New Orleans because it was so loud and Rowdy um Casey was Casey I loved Casey small locker room yeah but I felt like it was the closest thing to college yeah yeah that's one of my favorites one of my favorite stadiums yeah I hated playing in Detroit just because it felt like you were playing in an empty Warehouse they were good a couple they were the fans came out a couple of times but for the most part it was cold and quiet and you had to kind of figure out a way to Hype yourself up like so you hate the Packers because every time the Packers get brought up Kyle's like I have to say something nice about the Packers he's like afraid to say anything about him yeah like the lions are you excited to watch them like kind of enjoy some success even though they were in division with you and that sort of thing I am I mean I think that I love the coach I love the way he coaches I love it I mean we talked about last week I love the way he motivates um he cares you can tell he cares no I mean that city deserves it they've been through the ringer for a long ass time yeah and and with um the NFC North and and Rogers leaving and that sort of thing you were giving me a little bit of [ __ ] about my jet Super Bowl pick you know yeah you were kind of educating me on the things that might pop up in your first year as a quarterback and like what are those things for people that might not know well I mean you're just moving towns you've got a whole different support system um you gotta get to know all these new guys like Aaron I mean they had to be the same group of people around him for however when he's what are they there 17 18 years however long he was there um so you just you're in your comfort zone um you can't really be bothered and now he's in a new city I mean he's old he's older so I mean he can handle it but uh there's all these little nuances that you know you gotta find if you had someone cook for you gotta find that and you gotta find different drives there you gotta find all these different things get a place exactly you gotta find a new guy go to Brooklyn um and it's a young team and I mean I'm in New York right now so I mean it's raining like crazy so your first game here you know it might be a slot Fest or a lacquer you know and I saw Brian in Vegas and yeah just what a fun guy to run into he's just so high energy and positive and he's just down to earth and and what was it like playing with him in Briggs and those guys like were they just absolute dogs kind of randomly gosh oh ran the locker room they're in they're in the building yeah they did literally whatever they wanted we were uh we were pre-season one of the years one of my first couple years with Lance um not home dory's like we're going out and I'm like I mean I gave her Mike Shanahan like that's not fine and I'm like it was a pretty season we weren't even playing in the game it might have been personal I forget and I'm like I think this is a really bad idea he's like I go security and stuff he's like no so we go out the side door go down these stairs and like Security's waiting for us and I'm like here we go we're now we're in trouble and they're like all right Lance where we're going and I'm like what is happening right now life is like this is like well they're gonna they're gonna go with us so nothing bad happens I go okay I guess guess we're doing this but those guys that's unbelievable guys I mean they would I mean it was really just two coverages covered two I didn't cover three and they played the [ __ ] out of it and they and they played it so much that they knew exactly where where they could get hurt and they knew they would just run the same place against that defense over and over again because all the two and three beaters and they knew where they where they're gonna get hurt they knew where they had to cover their asses and I mean they were they were incredible well we talk about it now with like Fred Warner and how much story they could play in San Francisco and that sort of thing how does a linebacker help you play those coverages somebody like Urlacher who's fast enough and long enough and it was so long that he had played to he could play The Run and Lance was Lance was so good that in two like he could he could play that we cook and he could also play the Middle with black if lack left and Lance was an absolute machine in the Run game on that weak side I mean he would fill a gap in Split Second and we always had good one and three techniques you know they that was always something that they drafted they made sure that they had those guys because the only way to play that defense is to have some guys up front then we got pat on the edge we had some dudes yeah y'all did y'all really did um there was somebody else I was going to ask you about on your defense uh Tillman Tillman yeah I mean yeah like just ball aware just as good in coverage or what made him great I mean everybody knows about the peanut punch but it's watching him work you know like day to day what made him great well I mean I think he he was a kind of whoever covered two guys and then we started playing a lot more three and he just kind of developed he was long too and linkily and he was smart they watched film they knew what guys were going to run um and you know they weren't playing a ton of coverages they didn't have to worry about playing real man they you know they knew they were gonna play three they were gonna play two they knew where their zones were where they had to be and they excelled at it so and they were really really talented players on top of it so they they didn't make it hard his Olin Cruz one of the baddest men on the planet he is yes and if he's not he believes he is half the battle dude oh it was half I mean he owned it I mean I wouldn't mess with them no one messed with them um an unbelievable Center like literally he studied a ton of film too and there was a point like I didn't have to really make any calls like he was doing everything um and then we lost him so I had to kind of take over but he was uh he was on it he was a bad dude a new football too real really good really smart football player yeah you could tell he was smart I mean I only played him against him a couple times he got everybody lined up I noticed that off the rip with Miles Garrett um does he remind you any any of peppers because to me he kind of reminds me yeah it's like that's the closest comp to him I can find yeah I think that might have been a little bit lengthier yeah right there little linklier but same body type same physical giftness um I think that's a really comparable thing pep just he didn't speak to anybody nicest guy in the entire world um you know he just you got to open the conversation maybe not a podcast guest ah I don't know he might have changed I don't know but I don't I wouldn't I wouldn't count on it I'd still get him on just to see him on Zoom uh so yeah like we were just talking about training camp you had the whole thing dialed in what did you what did you have you ever hyperbaric chamber or were you just more like tasty snacks all right now I had my I had the art machine back then I had I had I had to bring in a big refrigerator and I'd you know I'd keep all kinds of drinks out of blender all my vitamins um I'd have a bigger TV brought in I usually would bring I would usually bring like had one of those like Japan or China made uh uh video games where you play Super Nintendo and and I would have we would have uh techno Super Bowl and taco bowl so we would rock out to those um there's only so much stuff you can put in a 10 by 10 little cell I have a cool fan air filter thing I had a lot of junk yeah you bring all this stuff yeah you you uh you bring all this stuff and you use like 25 of it all right well enough football I just want to ask you about you're the best guy that could probably explain it to me but can you explain Nashville to me can you explain yeah here we go now I can tell that's the right question can you explain the city to me is it Hollywood is it like something like Hollywood now what is it everybody's famous there uh there's a lot of people have moved there um depends where you go so downtown Nashville now is just it's just straight Taurus yeah um there's Bachelor parties bachelorette parties all those things are happening on a daily basis bars are open at nine o'clock in the morning there's live music at every single one of them I tell you what we have gotten we've gotten a lot better uh restaurants we've got a lot better hotels so that's a plus for sure just your I mean it's just not what it used to be and I mean I've been there since 0-1 so I've seen it full change I mean there's there's goodness bad right like you know there's so many people now moving that getting crowded there's lines there's traffic but like I said there's a lot more opportunities to go out there and have fun so it's fun uh and then if you go down farther south everyone's moving south uh house prices land prices are through the roof uh the airport expanded I don't know about that Indoor Stadium [ __ ] Jay I know you like it I hate it really I want to play I want to play outside on grass every time oh my God why tell me oh because I hate Turf I think it's bad for you I hate the rubber um it's just not Football let's play outside let's play in grass and let's figure it out oh I love it I'd love to hear that from a quarterback that's music yeah because I think I think these new stadiums are ugly oh yeah and I just saw it's one of those it's a country uh where soccer is Norway or something Sweden like that but they just banned that rubber stuffing turf yeah all those all the goalies are getting like cancer at young age I'm diving around on that stuff all the time yikes dude I used to pick that stuff I used to blow snot Rockets 12 hours after the game and and you'd have that rubber stuff that stuff yeah well I mean it's it's ground up ground up tires nothing wrong with a little ground up tire and your nasal uh cavity um I have some guys who have done worse but uh yeah we were talking about Nashville with uh with UVA I like my driver we're taking things there oh man all right we're going here we go we're going we're going bike lane there we go I love it well so with with Nashville Vanderbilt obviously the the home team with college and Virginia is a very frustrating place to watch your alma mater play like it's we lost JMU the other day I feel like people think of us as a very academic school there's not like this football kind of like um I don't know association with it the way you'd have an SEC or even some schools in the ACC and I'm kind of wondering how you cope with the same thing now this year you're two and one so things are totally different but is Virginia kind of Vanderbilt because I've always thought that for sure I mean I've been down there in a while like I there's just no there's not a lot of well this blew the stadium up so it's a train wreck out down there right now but there's just not a lot of incentive to take my boys down there like this I don't want them to be like Associated this with football so where are you taking them uh we're gonna Tennessee and we go up to the Bears games like we go to like fun places like so you have fun going back to Chicago Chicago yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah we I try to take the boys every year to a game um we did we were just up there a couple months ago we went to a Cubs game so I actually like the stadium a lot I I think uh Stadium's beautiful I think it's beautiful down there by the uh the River or the lake yeah but not the river but I kind of think Denver would be the best place to play Denver was awesome I loved playing in Denver and you know what you never had that noon game yeah right so so you're always playing that four o'clock kickoff but it's two there oh [ __ ] yeah that's something and you know what like being in the midwest was a little bit better uh for me because we'd be done a little earlier and that sort of thing so you put that two o'clock game you're done at five yeah that's nice that's really nice um okay so before I let you go I wanna I wanna ask you about uh what you think for the for the the big prediction uh yeah I think I gave you my Super Bowl pick I don't think I got it from you you know in case he took a tough one um oh he signed yeah while y'all were doing the show oh really how much yeah uh not as much as he wanted he went to the stadium with those agent guys and sat in between him and postured and the whole thing like they look like they might be in the mafia and then he's like I'll take less you can't do that after that no you've got to hold out then yeah you gotta but I think but I think they realized that I think you probably realized that they they weren't gonna pay him yeah this was this this was going to come to it he was just going to lose a year of NFL yeah yeah and they really need him so you think it's the Chiefs still like the Chiefs I think this year is going to be a little crazy I mean I I think they've been there they've done it in Kansas city is there a chance that receivers get a lot better through a year like yeah okay in your experience because they got Andy and Pat and the whole thing they're definitely gonna get better and um getting getting Travis back is going to take some pressure off those guys um you know some of those jobs were I mean they're they're just Clues those who those players are um or they wouldn't be on that team so I think they're going to be fine if anything's just going to piss those guys off anymore to go out and play but um I think until Casey until you know something happens to the pad or Andrew Reeds decides to step down I think you got to put them number one every year all right so you heard it who's in the NFC any any idea NFC uh there we go it is good yeah I don't even know of anything well everybody thinks Niners nine are boys yeah I've got the Niners in there yeah Niners for sure Eagles for sure I mean that's without question one of the best teams in the league yeah it's just going to be whether I mean they didn't look that Eagles didn't look that great week one that's a good defense though dude I mean like I really just I feel like they got the people the people to take away the middle of the field and that that was hard on Jalen and then you know I don't think they played that well but uh if you're New England you kind of and Mac Jones is salvageable I feel like so here's the thing that you gotta patch in like some of these quarterbacks like they run the ball a lot and then as they get older they they stop they stop running like I want to throw I want to throw I want to throw so it's like one of those things that you know is Jalen gonna keep running are all these quarterbacks gonna keep running the ball as much as they've done the past or are they going to try to be drop back quarterbacks well Anthony Richardson took a huge hit yesterday at the goal line and his his day ended with like a bruise on his knee or something it's not a big deal but it's like this is week one of a career that they're probably gonna run him a lot and I didn't know you were almost a safety and a tight end and all that [ __ ] so you almost were running quarterback I don't know why you could run around more out there so because I because I started playing faster and faster guys I could do that stuff that's good uh all right well Jay Cutler my Inside the NFL uh teammate check us out on Tuesday nights uh on the CW 87 Central and uh enjoyed having you on man come back again I appreciate it foreign

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