Living in Denver and breathing Bronco air every day brings a new perspective on this whole power struggle. Because that is what this feud between Josh McDaniels "SuperCoach" and Jay Cutler "Baby Boy Wonder" is, a power struggle. When "SuperCoach" was hired, "Baby Boy Wonder" was bummed that Shanahan was let go, not devastated but bummed. What he didn't know at the time was that McDaniels is a coach that wants to be the end all be all in the locker room, like most great coaches. Shanahan treated Jay like his step son and had a great relationship on and off the field. But sometimes an individual needs a pull of the rug to get them going and to find out who you are as a person. Jay Cutler is a guy that wants to be cradled and McDaniels wants to take him out of the cradle, put a parachute on him and throw him out of a B-52 hand-cuffed to a Nuclear Bomb with the key taped to the other side.
McDaniels fired Jay's quarterback coach and Jay saw that McDaniels wasn't going to give him anything to latch on to. Here comes the hipocracy, Jay had this to say afterwords "...well you don't play for coaches, you play for your teamates." weeks later Cutler, in his rage, demands a trade. Well it sounds like he wanted a trade because a coach fired a coach? Well what happened to "not playing for coaches?" So McDaniels and the new GM do what the player wanted and barely get a rough draft outline of a trade for Jay so they can get Cassell and Jay gets wind. Now at this point Cassell has already been traded so Jay realizes that he's probably stuck in Denver without a huge media bomb, so he sees leverage and strikes. With help from his incompetent agent who also happened to represent Brett Favre when Green Bay blew up, and Steve McNair when Baltimore blew up.
He realized that he can make a big stink about being shopped around and hopefully get teams calling and offering yachts and estates to get the boy wonder. According to reports in both meeting with the GM and head coach Jay has barely spoken, instead he lets his agent do the talking. This is a way so if things don't work for Jay and he gets stuck in Denver he can just blame his agent. Remember this kid went to Vanderbilt. Jay understood that the Broncos couldn't make public that Jay wanted a trade before they actually tried to trade him because that would only be throwing more fire on the flames. McDaniels isn't biting, and the best owner in the NFL, Pat Bowlen, was backing his coach. Now Jay can't just not show up because his stock will drop and so the broncos would be even less inclined to trade him.
This is a preconceived plan to get out of Denver because Cutler had his ba-ba pulled out of his mouth and his "blankie" thrown away by the new coach. It is a power struggle that could work in a place like Dallas, Oakland, Cincinatti or Seattle because the ownership and coaches have huge egos and wouldn't want them looking bad even though it is for the good of the team. Wade Phillips is too much of a pushover and would just start smooching Jays feet and Jerry Jones would buy him a BMW to keep him quiet. But the Broncos know they have the advantage and will just wait this out and then Jay will be right where McDaniels wants him, with no exit. Jay Cutler and Josh McDaniels will end up as a great combo and eventually pull an A-Rod "young and stupid" excuse. Jay will fire his awful agent and the Broncos should be on the road of another Super Bowl run.
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