Cutler Understands Quinn's Challange

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Cutler understands Quinn's challenge
By Mike Klis
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 11/05/2008 12:00:29 AM MST

Jay Cutler is about to play a game in which a talented, young quarterback is generating considerable hype, and it's not him.

That didn't take long.

Already, Cutler has gone so far beyond the lauds of early success, he has scrambled into a critical territory reserved for NFL quarterbacks who struggle to meet expectations.

Call it an NFL rite of quarterback passage. As the football nation and the NFL Network turn their attention Thursday night to the starting debut of Cleveland's Brady Quinn, the Broncos' Cutler will play the foil.

"He is strong. Big arm, can run, smart," Cutler said of Quinn, as if reciting what people said of Cutler before his NFL debut two years ago. Then Cutler hurried along to when the ballyhoo bursts. "As a quarterback, you've got to get over that growing phase," he said. "You've got to get over that curve. He's going to struggle at times. Sometimes he's going to see things great. Other times it's going to be a little cloudy. We'll see what happens this game. He might come out and light it up, or he may struggle."

As it stands today, Quinn is the most famous NFL quarterback who has never started. He was not just a star quarterback in college. He starred at Notre Dame. When the Browns selected Quinn in the first round of the 2007 draft, it wasn't just the Dawg Pound that couldn't wait to see him play.

Cutler understands Quinn's challenge - The Denver Post