"It's a lonely feeling to fight and go through training camp and everything else and get to this point and have an opportunity to get in the Super Bowl," Cutler said. "It's hard. [There were] so many shots we took earlier in the year and able to bounce back. [To be] in the situation we were and to have things happen like that, it's tough."e said he injured his knee on the second-to-last series of the first half. His status was in doubt leading up to the second-half kickoff with backup Todd Collins even taking warm-up tosses. But Cutler started the second half, throwing an incomplete pass in a three-and-out opening drive.
"We gave it a go that first series, but I really couldn't plant and throw. So they kind of pulled me," Cutler said.
Collins replaced Cutler on the Bears' next series and was ineffective, throwing four incomplete passes. Hanie checked in with 57 seconds remaining in the third quarter.
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