If you’ve been living under a rock: The Broncos fired Mike Shannahan. They hired Josh McDaniels. McDaniels like Matt Cassel, whom he tried to trade for. Jay Cutler got pissed. McDaniels said he wanted Cutler as his quarterback. Cutler said that wasn’t the case. The Broncos said they’d trade Cutler. McDaniels and owner Pat Bowlen said they’d tried to reach out to Cutler for 10 days, with no success. Cutler says they never called him once.

Cutler and his agent have a different spin on the story, NFL senior analyst Chris Mortensen reports. Asked by text message whether Bowlen has directly tried to contact him, Cutler replied, “No.”

His agent, Bus Cook, said the Broncos first got in touch with him on Tuesday.

“The perception that they’ve been burning the phone lines the last 10 days is wrong,” Cook said. “In fact, the other day I asked Jay if he had heard from them and he said, ‘no.’ I didn’t hear from them until yesterday [Tuesday] morning when [GM] Brian Xanders called me and said that Mr. Bowlen needs to speak with Jay now. I told him all I can do is leave Jay a message.

Has there ever been a bigger debacle of he-said-she-said in the history of sports? And if so, would Cutler be the ‘he’ or the ’she?’

[ESPN]