Cutler and Burress.  What is the thread that ties these two tanking primadonnas together?  Bad advice from bad agents. 

Let's assume for a moment we believe everything we've been told in the press this week.

Cook basically destroyed any chance Cutler had of returning to the Broncos by putting a wall of communication between his client and his client's employer.  It looks to me like classic tampering by the agent, playing his client against the GM.  How else do you have one side saying they were denied contact over and over, and the other side saying they were never contacted?  Sounds to me like the agent tried to pull a maneuver, screwed it up, and then had to backtrack with a trail of lies so that his client wouldn't know he had destroyed his chance at a future with his current team.  In the meantime, Cook managed to out his client as a whiner and a QB that lacks the intangibles of leadership that would lead a team through difficulty.  Now Cutler has to climb out of this hole in Chicago, for better or worse.  Say what you will about Cutler, he had the Bronco's locker room in his pocket, a solid offensive system, a great O-line, and two genuine big play threats at wideout.  Now he's entering a situation where he will have to overcome the foolishness of the past months and win over the Bear's locker room, all the while with an offense that isn't half as potent as what Denver had.  Whoops.

The Burress situation is similarly interesting to me:

http://www.profootballtalk.com/2009/04/03/giants-offered-plaxico-a-new-deal-before-grievance-hearing/

We’re told that, if Burress had accepted the deal, the team likely would have kept him for 2009, despite the current uncertainty regarding his legal status.

Idiot.

Sounds like Rosenhaus was so intent on getting Burress traded that he didn't realize what a terrible situation his client was in.  Now having played with fire with one of the better franchises in the league, Burress is now on the curb, where he will stay until the Bengals or Cowboys decide they need more primadonnas to destroy their ball club.

The point is that the shenanigans these agents are pulling should serve as a wake-up call.  This only hurts your client, the team they play for, and ultimately you.  We're entering into an era over the next two seasons of some really hardcore negotiating between the players and owners, and this kind of stupidity is only going to get worse.

What do you guys think?