And who wants to follow Jay Cutler? Who wants to dig down deep -- not just in games, but in practice when the game is won or lost -- when the guy asking them to dig is so detestable? There's a fine line between a good team and a great one in the NFL, and as a leader, Cutler is on the wrong side of it.
This is bigger than the incident with left tackle J'Marcus Webb, who Cutler shoved last Thursday during the Bears' Week 2 loss to the Packers. It was a bad game for J'Marcus Webb, but that was bad leadership by Jay Cutler. Hell, that wasn't leadership at all. That was petulance and self-absorption.
The Webb incident opened a window into the leadership of Jay Cutler, and the view was ugly. Bears cornerback D.J. Moore verbally eviscerated Cutler for his behavior, noting that on a day when Cutler was statistically awful -- 11 for 27 for 126 yards, four interceptions and a 28.2 passer rating -- the Bears quarterback made a scapegoat of an offensive lineman.
"I just think it's wrong, honestly," Moore said. "I would feel some kind of way if he were to do me like that and make it seem like 'Well, the reason that I'm having a bad game is because what you're doing' and not me taking accountability for myself because I'm throwing these types of passes or doing this type of read."
Then Moore turned the knife.
"I think it's just him," he said of Cutler. "It's the type of guy he is."