Last year, Brett Favre hogged the offseason headlines with his petulant ways, fighting with the Packers, deciding where he wanted to be traded, and doing a walk-and-talk on an airport runway with ESPN’s Rachel Nichols. Fox’s Jay Glazer (Favre’s side) slugged it out with ESPN’s Chris Mortensen (team’s side) for the scoop.

This offseason, Denver’s Jay Cutler finds himself embroiled in a slightly similar situation to Favre – he’s feuding with his team that put him on the trading block. Mort seems to have a direct line to Cutler, just as he did with Favre.

The connection between the two QBs and ESPN? They both share the same agent, Bus Cook. Clearly, Cook has aligned himself with ESPN (specifically Mort), but unlike Green Bay’s organization working with Glazer, the Broncos either haven’t picked a media member to get their word out, or they don’t plan on it.

This will obviously backfire horribly. Cook and Cutler have already portrayed the Broncos as … well, bumbling rubes who want to trade their star player because the rookie coach has a fascination with a one-hit wonder (which may seem to be the case). Cook and Cutler are on the verge of ruining the coaching career of Josh McDaniels before he coaches his first preseason game.

If the Broncos have chosen anyone to get their message out, perhaps it is Fox’s John Czarnecki. Today he writes one of the first informed anti-Cutler screeds we’ve read in awhile:

Everyone should know that Cutler has wanted out of Denver ever since Mike Shanahan was fired and quarterback coach Jeremy Bates left for USC shortly afterward. Before McDaniels and the Broncos pursued a failed trade for Matt Cassel, Cook had already been begging to get his client out. Denver told him no from the beginning. But somehow Cook has been able — how hilarious is this? — to paint Cutler as some victim in the cruel world of NFL trade talk.

Bingo. We fully expect Mort (via Cook) to chime in sometime before 4 pm – gotta have the news to lead NFL Live with.