Broncos Players “Revolt” Against Cutler Drama

The Denver Post is posting (from Denver) daily updates regarding the status of the feud between quarterback Jay Cutler and the Broncos. For Monday’s update, Mike Klis of the Post reports that other Broncos players have been boycotting media availability in connection with offseason workouts. Klis says that, typically, the team’s P.R. staff brings out “a player or two” after the morning sessions. Since March 19, however, no player has agreed to meet with the media. Klis calls it a “player revolt” to the ongoing drama. In a roundabout way, then, the ongoing brouhaha could be bringing the Broncos players together, giving them a cause around which to rally. Meanwhile, Vic Lombardi of CBS4 in Denver apparently plans to launch his own boycott regarding the Cutler situation, explaining in a video posted on the station’s web site that “if we don’t discuss it we’re told it will discuss the healing process, allowing the principals, i.e. Josh [McDaniels] and Jay [Cutler], to handle this behind closed doors, where it should have been handled weeks ago.” (And, of course, this makes us wonder whether the “player revolt” against media coverage of the Cutler situation is something that was suggested to them by those who run the team.) Vic Lombardi then added, “If they don’t make any progress by minicamp in late April, then we are free to speculate, formulate, and propagate as much as we please.” Maybe we missed the day during “J” school that covered the independence of the media (then again, we missed every day in “J” school), but it sounds to us as if Vic Lombardi might be letting the subject he’s covering dictate how he covers the subject. We’re not saying Lombardi should discuss the situation merely to have something to discuss on an otherwise sssslow news day. But if there’s a legitimate development between now and late April that requires, say, analysis from those paid to analyze such developments, Vic Lombardi will not be serving his audience by biting his tongue.