The Internet was on fire the past two days with everyone’s take on whether or not Jay Cutler pussed out on Sunday. Whatever. I’m over it. His teammates are rather adamant that he didn’t bail on them, and this story is already played out.
The thing that blows my mind, and actually made me wake up laughing at 6:30 on Monday morning, is that the Bears employed Todd Collins as their backup quarterback in the case Cutler got hurt and/or bravely chickened out.
This sentiment was clearly shared by the woman at the game who could be heard on my television screaming, “Are you ******* kidding me? TODD COLLINS?!?” as Collins checked in to the game after Brian Urlacher’s potential game-changing interception gave the Bears momentum and good field position that Collins naturally parlayed into a three-and-out.
As my buddy Goldberg pointed out, Collins has all of 24 touchdown passes in 16 NFL seasons. Yes folks, that is an average of 1.3 TD passes a year, which i...
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