EDIT NOTE: I wrote this a couple weeks back, when rumours were circulating about a growing divide between Broncos gunslinger Jay Cutler and new head coach Josh McDaniels. On Monday morning, ESPN's Chris Mortensen reported that Cutler has requested a trade. So, rather than write another column saying the same thing, I wanted to remind you of all the reasons I wanted the Bills to pick up Cutler... and why I feel even more strongly about it this morning.

Trade for Jay Cutler.

It's a phrase that just makes sense, as long as you aren't an NFL overthinker. Throw it up there with "Go Get a Back Rub" and "Take A Nap." If they are viable options, you take them. Just like Jay Cutler.

Look, I don't care what you think you see in Trent Edwards. Jay Cutler is better right now. He was a Pro Bowler on a team with a garbage defense. Think he's too much of a gunslinger? He had to be.

If you called me this afternoon with the news that Trent Edwards and a first round pick, or Marshawn Lynch and a second-round pick were gone, and Jay Cutler and Laveranues Coles were Bills, I'd buy two season tickets immediately, and forgive the multiple train wrecks involving the organization since the Fall.

This is the easiest opportunity to get a franchise quarterback for dirt cheap. The parameters are out there in the media, and in front of every NFL executive. The Pats were going to get a first and third, the Bucs would get Cutler, and the Broncos would get Cassel. So Denver was willing to give up its quarterback and a pick for Cassel. Give them out quarterback, running back or a pick. Easy peasy. (EDIT: NOW, Cutler has asked to leave, which may actually lower what Denver can get).

Sure, Cutler's a little cocky in the way he speaks and throws a football. You know who else was? Brett Favre. Jim Kelly. Scott Bakula in "Necessary Roughness."

Sometimes, it's just simple. If Denver is silly enough to deal Jay Cutler, you see what it will take to get him. WIll the Bills do it? I highly doubt it, but let's just toss this out there with every other dream deal out there. Someone is going to do it, and unless Cutler moves to Iceland to help export woollen goods and ferro-silicon alloys, the move will work out for the buyer.

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