Jay Cutler Refers to Younger Teammates as 'These Kids with Their Phones,' Is Old

It's likely been creeping up Jay Cutler's spine for years now.

New waves of rookies, each one with his own favorite songs and touchstones, filing into the locker room year after year and slowly changing the culture until one day, you walk in and it finally washes over you: You're the old and odd man out.

It starts with the music. They were listening to Yung Joc's "It's Going Down" when Cutler came into the league in 2006, and now it's all whip dancing and "Trap Queen" by Fettuccine Wrap or some such ballyhoo.

Cutler doesn't get it anymore. But the Chicago Bears' 32-year-old quarterback is willing to try, or so he told ESPN's Jeff Dickerson in a recent interview, where he referred to his younger teammates as "these kids with their phones" and somehow restrained himself from shaking a fist at a passing cloud.

He spoke on getting to know the new guys on the team, saying he just thinks they don't make kids like they used to.

"It's tough. It is tough. I think kids have changed a lot since whenever I came in in 2006," Cutler said. "It's a different animal. These kids with their phones. All the social media, everything they do."

Gaming and live-gaming feeds are other things Cutler says he doesn't understand:

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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. They're like, "Yeah. It's awesome." I don't know anything about this. 

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Cutler said he's doing his best to bridge the age gap with younger players. If that means watching other people watch them play video games, that's what he'll do.

"You kind of have to get in their world a little bit and get to know them," Cutler said. "If you've got to play a few video games with them while people watch them on the internet, that's what you've got to do."

Indeed, Jay. A little Madden and virtual voyeurism goes a long way toward connecting you with your teammates. 

And if it makes you feel better, consider this: There are kids starting their sophomore year of college this fall named after Peyton Manning, who in turn is a full 18 years older than new teammate and 2015 Denver Broncos draftee Lorenzo Doss.

Just saying: If you think these kids and their iPhones and Snapper Chats are weird, Manning thinks you kids and your phones without scrunchie cords are unrelatable.

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