Five NFL execs believe Cutler won't be a Bear next season.

Maybe, or maybe not but we'll never know now will we.

I really do hope I'm wrong but I fear we only compounded our mistakes from the past once again.  IMHO Fox has had too much say in too many things and I truly believe whatever plan he may have had to turn this deal around has been shot in the ass by a combination of things and he has no idea what to do about it.

Fangio sounds like a man with a plan which essentially is to keep teaching and developing his younger talent while he copes with injuries.  He sees the mistakes they're making and he's determining what to do about it.  Even something as simple as bringing up Timu from the PS because he's a more effective run stopper than Anderson and more experienced than Kwiatkoski is an example of some of the small adjustments he's making because with Goldman out he needs a better "banger" at ILB.

So if Fox can't help him out with his plan because he doesn't need it what exactly is Fox doing?  If he's working with Loggains and the offense I think he's doing more harm than good because they've gotten far worse with Gase gone yet supposedly better personnel wise (Fox tells us) and aren't struggling with the number of injuries Fangio is.  If Loggains doesn't know what he's doing then plainly Fox doesn't either.  So tell me, what's the sense of bringing in a high draft pick QB to develop under this guy or both of them?

Cutler is probably better prepare to deal with this crap having already had to adapt to wizards like Tice and Trestman over the past 5 years.  Loggains and Ragone may actually be decent QB coaches but as long as Fox is around how can we tell?  He couldn't do shit with Orton or Tebow in Denver so Elway brought in Manning or they'd have never been much more than an 8-8 team.  What great or even half way good QBs has Fox ever developed as a HC?  Jake Delhomme???

If we don't either dump Fox or get an experienced OC who can develop and run an offense and simply let Fox be the administrative HC he obviously would like to be and may be capable of there is no sense in spending high draft capital on a QB.  Keep Cutler for now and begin developing Shaw if we can.  I see some upside there and we take less risk. In the meantime keep fixing the OL and DL.