Cutler Discusses his Finger Injury

Cutler injured his finger on the first play of the game. (Getty Images)

Jay Cutler appeared on his weekly CBS4 program and discussed the brutal loss and his finger injury, among other things (video). When the injury occurred, Cutler said he immediately thought it was broken. Looks like the Broncos escaped a close one here.

On if he thought he broke his finger on the first play —

Yeah, I mean absolutely. It’s never happened to me like that. I’ve deflected some helmets, hit some facemasks, done some stuff, but when I first hit, I was like, “I probably broke my finger.” But you know, you get lucky some times, and I got lucky there in that instance. I think my thumb probably took most of the brunt. So I’m good to go.

On how important the index finger is to throwing the football —

Yeah, that’s the last finger that touches the ball. That kind of sets it in the direction you want to and gets it in a tight spiral. (Monday) night, it didn’t have the tightness I wanted. It didn’t have the strength that I wanted. But, you know, I could throw the ball. I don’t want to make excuses for it. I wouldn’t have come back in if I didn’t think I could get the job done. I thought I could get the job done, but obviously I didn’t.

We really dodged a bullet here, folks. As bad as Monday’s game was, let’s at least be thankful we didn’t lose our quarterback for the season.