“He’s a really smart guy,” Cutler said. “I think he probably has a lot of interests outside of football that he wants to explore and I think the main thing, which says a lot about his character and who he is, is that he just didn’t feel like he could perform the way he wanted to perform; he couldn’t invest the time the way he wanted to invest. And if he wasn’t 100 percent all in and able to do it at the caliber that he wanted to do it, he couldn’t do it.”