I agree. Throw in Stokley and it's a pretty good trio.

Cutler's in charge of a potent offense, but without a solid team, he won't win anything. He's got the Broncos at a mediocre level, and unless they make strides in conditioning and on their defense, they're maxed out right now.

It's no different than the Cards last year: They were one dimensional and only made the playoffs thanks to a miserable division, and they posted a pretty meh record despite having a HOF QB because they had no running and no defense. If the Donx had caught fire at the end of the season, they could have made a similar run. Their offense was really good, but their D was KC level bad. Honestly, Cutler is the difference between Denver having the season they had last year and them competing with us for draft position in the top 5.

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Cutler's Jake Plummer part deux. He makes so many great plays that his teams will never be terrible, but he makes so many terrible plays that his teams will never be great.

Kiper didn't really convince me. I was expecting some sort of breakdown of Cassel's skills, or attributes.

WTF? You countered a W/L argument (Cassel vs. Cutler) with a W/L argument (difference of 3 games).

I agree that's not a measure by which to compare QBs so don't use "a difference of 3 games" to do it.

He's far and away nothing like Plummer back there... he has a lot to improve on though, the guy has a lot of talent.

Again, he's a little bitter that Leinart and Young are warming the bench for journeyman QBs pushing 40.

I wonder if the bloom will ever come off Shanahan in Denver? Sure, he's an OK coach, deserves credit for those super bowls 10 years ago with Reeves' team. But how many poor free agent signings did they make, how rarely did it seem that anything they drafted worked out?

And this Cutler situation along with, obviously, Shanahan's firing, shows that Bowlen is not high on him at all and may have come to the same conclusion, that nobody ever made as good a living off anyone as Shanahan has made off of Elway. Except maybe the living Carl Peterson made off Marty

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You're serious, aren't you?

Welker had 7 more receptions than Marshall. Marshall had 100 more yards. Marshall had double the number of touchdowns.

Royal had 91 receptions to Moss' 69 and one less 100 yard game, despite the fact that he's a rookie.

Marshall and Royal are EVERY BIT the duo that Moss and Welker are. To pretend otherwise is laughable.

Elway went to the Super Bowl 3 times without Terrell Davis. At least 2 of those teams wouldn't have come close to the Super Bowl without Elway. He's one of the best 2 or 3 QB's in the history of football, dude.

You're insane... Shanahan took over in 1995, the teams he won with were not built by Dan.

This is why I think Cutler will do well in this system once the drama stops... it's lingering way to long. Bowlen needs to call a code red on both of them.