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Mad Dash: Jay Cutler puzzled by younger teammates

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The role of elder statesman has snuck up on Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, and it's just now hitting him. In an interview with ESPN, Cutler opened up a bit about how the youngest players on the Bears are into things he doesn't remotely understand.

"It's tough. It is tough," Cutler said with a smile. "I think kids have changed a lot since whenever I came in in 2006. It's a different animal. These kids with their phones. All the social media, everything they do. They were telling me that they play video games now and they have another screen where people watch them play video games. It's like, I don't understand that. They just watch you play the video game. They're like, 'Yeah, it's awesome.' I don't know anything about this."

We'll admit it doesn't seem like 2006 was that long ago, but then again, that was before iPhones even existed, and playing video games against people online was barely a thing, let alone watching other people play on streaming services. Still, it's kind of mindboggling to hear a guy say he feels somewhat out of touch with his younger teammates when he's just 32 years old. 

It's pretty rare that you'll find us marveling about anything happening in a slow pitch softball game, but this is a little different. You see, we didn't have the slightest belief that a behind-the-back home run swing was even possible before Thursday, and then Renaud Lefort changed our whole world with one heroic hack. We suspect we'll injure ourselves attempting this 50 times in the backyard tonight.

Speaking of things we could do to injure ourselves, Cal Mathison has one idea. Mathison puts together one of the more creative dunks we've ever seen, jumping off two walls, parkour style, to throw down. And from multiple angles, no less. We now eaglerly await the flood of wall dunks surely coming to social media.

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