Dear Jay Cutler Haters,

Even last year when Jay Cutler struggled I did not hop off the bandwagon.  I stood by Jay and told everyone that they needed to calm down. I said "he is a good quarterback. He has a great arm. He is young and will learn to make better decisions in the pocket.  He will settle down and return to his Pro-Bowl form." Alas people did not side with me and stay by Jay. Instead they crucified him calling him a flop, a loser, and said that he couldn’t cut is as an NFL quarterback. To all those Jay Cutler Haters I would like you to take a look at his numbers through his first three full years as a starter compared to other current elite NFL quarterbacks in their first three full years as starters.

Jay Cutler 48 games

- QB Rating 83.6

- 11689 Passing yards

-243.5 Passing yards per game

-76 Tds

-58 Ints

Peyton Manning: 48 Games

-QB Rating 85.5

-12287 Passing yards

-255.9 Passing yards per game

-88 Tds

-58 Ints

Brett Favre: 47 Games

-QB Rating 82.7

-10412 Passing Yards

-221.5 Passing yards per game

-74 Tds

-51 Ints

Tom Brady: 47 Games

- QB Rating 86.0

- 10227 Passing Yards

-217.6 Passing yards per game

-71 Tds

-38 Ints

Drew Brees: 42Games

- QB Rating 83.1

- 8551 Passing Yards

- 203.6 Passing yards per game

-56 Tds

-38 Ints

Phillip Rivers: 48 Games

- QB Rating 93.3

- 10549 Passing Yards

- 219.8 Passing yards per game

- 78 Tds

- 35 Ints

(In their first 3 years as a starter)

Jay Cutler has a better passer rating than Brett Favre and Drew Brees.  He has more passing yards that Brett Favre, Drew Brees, Tom Brady, and Philip Rivers. He has more touchdowns than Brett Favre, Drew Brees, and Tom Brady. He also has the SAME number of interceptions thrown as the great Peyton Manning.

Jay Cutler will be a great NFL quarterback.  Have faith and make sure you know the statistics before you go calling professional football players "bad". Not to say that Cutler will not have his struggles because he will. He is a gunslinger and he is going to throw interceptions, but that does not mean he cannot be an elite NFL quarterback.  This season through two games Jay Cutler has 5 Tds, 1 Int, and is throwing for 325 yards per game. 

Max G. Mickey