Smart Phones Don't Make You Smarter...

Apparently somebody needs to tell guys like Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew that using a smart phone doesn't make you smart...especially when you use it to Twitter the crap he was posting about Chicago QB Jay Cutler.

Jones-Drew and Arizona Cardinals players Kerry Rhodes and Darnell Dockett are a few current NFL players that were  quick to criticize Cutler for his unwillingness to play through a "minor" injury during Sundays NFC Championship game against the Green Bay Packers.

An MRI performed on Monday showed that Cutler suffered a sprained medial collateral ligament (MCL).

Even former NFL player Deion Sanders didn't have nice things to Tweet during the Bears loss on Sunday.
This was a little hard for me to accept considering Sanders avoided A LOT of contact during his playing days and alluded to his unwillingness to play with physical toughness as "making a business decision".
So a guy, who as an NFL player wouldn't take on tough tackles in order to avoid injury and protect his earning potential, feels he has a right to criticize a player who didn't stay in a game after spraining his MCL?
Do us all a favor Deion -- STFU.

All Ex-NFL players who are now "expert" commentators heaping criticism on Cutler should be ignored because...well, because they are EX-NFL PLAYERS...they no longer play.
And because they no longer play -- they are now more media personality than athlete.

However, it's not so easy to ignore the comments made by current NFL players.
These are guys who play alongside Cutler in today's tough NFL environment.
An environment where players in the last ten years have become faster, stronger, and more likely to cause injury.
How anyone who shares that livelihood could question the toughness of a colleague is beyond me.

If I only had a Smart Phone

I can only attribute it to good old fashioned stupidity.

It's good to see some Bear team-mates coming to his defense.
But, I'd like to see current NFL players from other teams blast Jones-Drew and others who rushed to publicize their dumb opinions for their bad judgement.

Anyone in doubt about Jay Cutlers toughness needs to remember the physical torture he endured during the 2007 season when he was losing strength and losing weight every week while playing with diabetes.
Jay Cutler didn't know he was diabetic at the time.
He didn't know what the cause of his poor health was...he just knew something was wrong.
Yet, he played through the physical limitations then and he has played through them since.

This whole situation says a lot more about Jones-Drew, Rhodes, Dockett, and others like them than it does about Cutler. Those players need to spend less time working on their Twitter accounts and more time wondering why they were watching the NFC/AFC Championships instead of playing in them.

In the end, those critical NFL players may have more heart than a guy like me...but they sure don't have more brains. And I'm okay with that.

Here's my Smart-Ass license photo. This proves I'm smart.

Respect the Billycock's brains Foo!