Comparisons coming already to the greats for Jay Cutler?

As it is in the NFL, the during the week banter the beat reporters churn out is sometimes on point, other times a bit out of left field.
I'm not really sure how to take what I read when hitting up the Chicago Tribune today to get some daily reading in on Da Bears.
"Top Story: Is Cutler the Next Tom Brady?" Was the first thing I saw on the page. At first, I'm thinking, OK, not a bad guy to be compared to, but OK, Let's read this story and see the points Rick Morrissey makes. (He does actually number a couple of them) Take a look here.
I'll go along with No. 1 on the list which (paraphrasing) says because the offensive line has been a bit inconsistent Ron Turner is calling shorter drops (3-5 steps) which means shorter routes for the receivers to run and less likelihood they can mess them up. No real problem with this. It's called avoiding a weakness. It was evident in the Packers game when there was a lot of time for Jay in the pocket the receivers weren't on the same wavelength as him.
That Packers game was a wake-up call for Jay to tighten the reigns as someone cornered him and laid down the law. Of course, as the story says, no one within the Bears will come out and say who or what was said to Jay, but either way for two games he seems to have gotten the message.
If that warrants a comparison to Tom Brady, who can make the most with his line and be very successful with short drops to exploit defenses, than fine. I'll go along with it.
He has no doubt shown his clutch ability in the last two games and even against the Packers, he came around and actually put the Bears in the lead with 7 minutes left before the game got away in the end.
My take is this, let's not anoint him. I think everyone as fans did enough of that in the preseason and got disappointed in Game 1. Let's not do that again. He's Jay Cutler. He's no John Elway, Thank you, end of story!

If you know me, you know I'm a rather big fan of "How I Met Your Mother" and some have even gone as far as to call me a true-life Ted Mosbey, the lead character in the show. (Vaughan and Amy, I thank you!)
One of the girls on the show, Alyson Hannigan, who plays Lilly on the show, was on David Letterman the other night. She was pretty funny. Enjoy!



Found this one today on the Twitter page of Jimmy Traina, you know the guy who runs SI.com's Hot Clicks I always talk about? Well it is Breast Cancer awareness month and Alyson and Mrs. Derek Jeter, Minka Kelly, talk about boobs. Pretty funny and rather hot!

THE BOOBY SCARE Featuring Alyson Hannigan, Emily Deschanel, Kat McPhee, Minka Kelly and Jaime King - watch more funny videos

OK, now for today's Nussie Hunter. I have been looking for a reason to put Jessica Biel on these pages and finally got word today. Justin Timberlake as cool as he is, broke up with her recently and Ms. Biel is now single. If you're reading this Jessica, my phone number is.... Haha!

Can we now put a fork in the Brewers?

With another demoralizing loss Tuesday night at the hands of the Pittsburgh Pirates, baseball's only Quadruple-A Franchise, the Brewers showed they don't belong or deserve a run at the playoffs.
Yep, 10 games back of division leading St. Louis and fading fast from San Fran and Colorado in the Wild Card race, is enough for me to call the time of death on this team. Tom Haudricourt did pretty much that in his game story and I'm going to follow suit.
The pitching has shown little sign of turning around and seems to be giving up more and more long balls each night. Sorry Chris Bosio can't solve that conundrum as this one falls in Doug Melvin's lap. He's got to get more guns on the front end of the starting rotation. It was my fear at the beginning of the season when everyone was predicting this team to get 90 wins this season.
For awhile that looked possible, as the fastest in team history to 30 wins. But just like that 24-10 start a few years back, that is a distant memory.
The offense had it's funk, but like the coaches I talk to time and time again at the high school level say "Offense comes and goes, so you have to build around defense and pitching."
And me putting a fork in my favorite team doesn't make me less of a fan, it shows I'm a realist to see that 10 games back in a race with 39 games to play is next to impossible to come back from. I'm going to cheer them on be in their corner, but it's time to realize that it's not going to happen this year. I have tickets to four games in the final month I will be enjoying and hoping for a "W." Just be real (like Cypress Hill) and know it's not going to happen this year. Get the ducks in a row and line up the pieces for 2010.
I'll surely have a blog in the future about what the offseason should look like for the team. Be sure to watch for that.
The dumping of Bill Hall today, is a good start!
What do you think? Am I being a bad fan and not holding out hope until the math says it is impossible? Comment here and let me know.


Got a couple of items for you. I'm a fan of the Stern Show and Artie Lange threw out the first pitch at a Minor League Baseball game last night. He did a lot better than Gary Dell'Abate did earlier this year at a Mets game. Take a look!



OK, this one was talked about on today's Hot Clicks on SI.com. Not a Jimmy Traina show today, but good stuff. Britney Spears read the Top 10 on Letterman last night. Watch this and tell me if you think Britney is trying to cover up her midsection in each shot of her in this.



OK, now to the Nussie Hunter for the day. It's out now that Terrell Owens will not be playing in the preseason game this weekend against the Packers. Wonder if he's going to follow the lead of Chris Cooley and get together with one of the Bills' cheerleaders, who call themselves the Buffalo Jills. If they all look like Katy, it's worth a shot. Damn.