APThe talk that Jay Cutler?s teammates could turn on him if the Bears? quarterback doesn?t become a better leader has been bolstered by a former teammate who was a co-captain of the Bears with Cutler three years ago.
Adewale Ogunleye, a retired defensive end who along with Cutler was one of the Bears? captains in 2009, said on WSCR in Chicago that Cutler had no right to yell at his offensive linemen in the Bears? loss to the Packers, because Cutler wasn?t playing much of a game himself.
?[I]f you live in a glass house, you can?t throw any stones,? Ogunleye said, via the Chicago Tribune. ?So the way I am looking at the game, no one is yelling at Jay when he is throwing the ball three [actually four] times to their defenders. And you?ve got to have some sense of accountability. At the end of the day, you start losing the respect of your teammates, you start losing the respect of that offensive line when publicly you?re bumping people and yelling at them in their face. I don?t think it is the right thing to do.?
Ogunleye suggested that another Bears leader, perhaps Brian Urlacher, will have to sit Cutler down and tell him to knock off the hollering at his linemen.
?The team is going to have to police itself,? Ogunleye said. ?Maybe Brian will have to say something. The more you yell at them, the more pressure you are putting on your own teammate.?
Ogunleye, who spent 11 seasons in the NFL, said that the NFL?s elite quarterbacks are better at relating to their teammates than Cutler is.
?There is no good to Jay, there is no smiling,? Ogunleye said. ?All we see is when he is pissed off, when he is angry and that reflects in the way people might view him in the locker room. But a guy like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, genuinely they are nice people and they overextend themselves. Tom Brady can be the biggest diva in the world ? he has that right, he has won Super Bowls ? but he is not that guy. I think that is why he is even more likeable.?
If Ogunleye is to be believed, there are players in the Bears? locker room who don?t find Cutler likeable.
Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/15/antonio-bryant-arrested-for-assault/related/
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