Supposedly the playoffs are where players go to prove their legacies. Jay Cutler proved his Sunday afternoon.

In the biggest game in Bears franchise history, against the Green Bay Packers, with the Super Bowl on the line…Cutler quit.

Sure, maybe his knee injury is something so serious that he couldn’t play, but I couldn’t help but thinking of Brett Favre gutting it out. Or Phillip Rivers playing in the AFC title game with a torn ACL in 2007.

This was the NFC Championship game. Against the Packers. Not a regular season game.

So while one young quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, solidified himself as the next best quarterback in the NFL, Cutler proved himself a quitter.

He proved his reputation as a choke in the big game, doing so on the biggest stage the NFC Championship has ever been on.

Guess he just can’t cut it.

So now Bears fans have to wallow in the disappointment of losing to their arch rivals while having to look forward to next year. Another year that will see plenty of “Good Jay” and “Bad Jay” on a week-to-week basis.

Then again, if “Quitter Jay” keeps showing up, maybe there shouldn’t be a Jay in Chicago at all.