Crybaby Cutler Hopes rest

Hopes rest in crybaby Cutler

Hey, Jay Cutler: Turn that frown upside down. You’re playing in the NFC Championship Game!

Many might hate Jay Cutler for being, well, a jerk.
Dubbed a cry baby in Denver when Josh McDaniels was hired, Cutler got his way and was part of a three-team trade two years ago and found himself in the Windy City.

We know the story. If you’re a Bronco fan, you hate him now. If you’re a Bears fan, you hated him last year, but now his ornery, pretty-boy look is growing on you.

But if you’re a fan of an AFC West or NFC north team, you thrive in a Cutler-prone three-interception performance of years past.
Well, now is the new-and-more-improved Cutler. This is the NFC-Championship-Game Cutler.

He looked stellar in 2010 and helped Chicago beat out the Packers and Vikings for the NFC North crown.

Now on the verge of being in the Super Bowl, Cutler is faced with the biggest task and maybe the biggest game of his career so far.
He told USA Today on Thursday that the 182nd meeting between the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears — the NFL’s oldest rivalry — could be Chicago’s game of the year.

“It’s almost like a mini-Super Bowl,” Cutler said. “I know Chicago will be really disappointed if we don’t win this game.”
Maybe the people from Chicago, the state of Illinois and Bears fans all over the world can take a second Super Bowl loss in the last four years.

But losing to Green Bay for the right to play in the Super Bowl and maybe having to watch the Packers win the Super Bowl is unacceptable.

I couldn’t handle Philadelphia or Dallas beating the New York Giants in the playoffs, advancing to the Super Bowl and walking away with the Vince Lombardi Trophy.

As a fan, I’ve recently been on both sides of that. The Giants defeated the Cowboys in the 2007 NFC Divisional round and eventually went on to win their third Super Bowl title.
The following year as the No.1 seed in the NFC, the Plaxico Burress-less G-Men were embarrassed in the Meadowlands by the Eagles.

Thanks goodness for Larry Fitzgerald and Kurt Warner. The Eagles were shocked the next week by the Arizona Cardinals in the 2008 NFC title game.
But something I thought Cutler would do is maybe take a war of words with the media in regards to Sunday’s tussle with the Packers.

He hasn’t.

Cutler has been humbled for where he is this season and looks forward to the third battle with the Packers and their up-and-coming quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

But Cutler doesn’t want to make this game to be about him and Rodgers. He wants it to be about Packers vs. Bears.

“If we both play well, then it’s going to come down to a lot of different things,” Cutler told USA Today. “If I don’t play well, and he does, we could still win. I plan on playing well, and I’m sure he does, too.”

Cutler — aside from return specialist Devon Hester — could be the X factor if the Bears plan for their third visit to the NFL’s biggest stage.

And Bears fans will probably agree with me here: For their sake and mine, the Bears offensive line better block that harassing Packers defense.

We all want the best games possible. I don’t want to see Cutler’s head bouncing off Soldier Field’s frozen gridiron.

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