By Dan O’Shea
All is not well in the City of Big Shoulder Pads. After one pre-season game, in which he had neither his starting tight end nor his starting running back to throw to, and in which his primary target was a guy whose biggest recommendation as a wide receiver was that he has been “ridiculous!” as a return man, Jay Cutler’s initials were found to actually stand for his own name, and not for “Jesus Christ.”
As a fantasy football team owner (or in any sort of fantasy league), you have to take some cues from exhibition games, but try to avoid getting too worked up about whoever did or didn’t do well in the first game of the pre-season slate. After this one game, I can’t say my opinion of Cutler’s draft position has changed. Yahoo!’s Player Ranker, in which members of all leagues can vote, has him ranked 10th among QBs. I’d put him at 7th, right after Kurt Warner and ahead of Tony Romo, Matt Ryan and Donovan McNabb.
Posted on August 19, 2009