Listen to that interview again Momoney,he hesitates and dances around it. I don't think this is what he wanted to do.
If there had been lingering curiosity as to whether Cutler would play again, that speculation came to a screeching halt Friday. In addition to Fox Sports' announcement, Cutler said in a WMVP-AM 1000 interview that his move away from the playing field is "permanent."
"I don't really see anything else happening," Cutler told the "Waddle & Silvy" show
Still, Cutler knows that when late July arrives and NFL training camps begin that he'll feel a void. The urge to play rather than broadcast likely will creep in.
"There's zero doubt in my mind that there's going to be some regret," Cutler said. "That's going to happen. I feel like last week, even when this decision was solid in my mind, I woke up like, 'Is this really what I want to do?' So there's going to be some of that.
"There's no doubt in my mind that come the middle of August, September, there's going to be that itch to play. And there's going to be part of me where I know I still can do it. But that's not how the cards played out, and that's not where we're at."
In a statement issued by Fox Sports earlier in the day, Cutler steered around using the word "retirement." That would imply an exit from the game on his own terms. Instead, Cutler's 11-year NFL career — eight with the Bears — came to an abrupt end in March when he was cut on the first day of free agency.
In the eight weeks since, Cutler's free-agent job hunt hadn't produced anything of substance.
"I don't know if retirement is the right word," Cutler wrote. "I don't feel that anyone ever really retires from the NFL. You are either forced to leave or you lose the desire to do what's required to keep going. I'm in between those situations at this point in my life."
He is done.....