So let me see if I have this situation straight:
* The Broncos totally mail it in late in the 2008 season, getting indestructible head coach Mike Shanahan fired. Shanahan's offensive staff is gutted, leaving the team to learn a new system.
* Shanahan is replaced by New England offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, a 32 year-old who had probably one of the best gigs going.
* McDaniels decides he wants to bring his project from Foxboro, Matt Cassel, into the fold. Of course, Denver already has a quarterback, Jay Cutler, who is blissfully unaware of the trade attempt.
* Not only was the plan to acquire Cassel from the Pats, but they had to trade Cutler, the guy whom they took 11th overall in the draft just a few years ago, as well.
* Cutler finds out that McDaniels was looking into replacing him at QB, but not from McDaniels himself. Cutler is pissed and the media is made well aware of this fact.
* Several attempts are made to try to repair the relationship, but Cutler's trust in his new coach is damaged beyond repair.
* Cutler requests a trade, and the Broncos are going to give it to him.
When reviewing this course of events, it's hard for me as an outsider to not be somewhat sympathetic to Cutler, but it's not like he doesn't come across as whiny in this too. Are there elements to this sequence of events we don't know about? Probably. All I know is that in weighing having Cutler vs. Cassel, the Broncos will end up with neither.
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