Look at the turnover!

I was wondering how many more days it would take before we picked up these old swords of ours again.  Mine was getting rusty.  The ONLY thing that's ever been average or below average has been the talent he's been surrounded by and the offenses he's been asked to run.

Look at the rest of him Ric.  Is his arm strength average? No  Is his athleticism and mobility average? No  Is is football intellect and grasp of the game average?  No  In fact every HC and OC he's ever had has said just the opposite.  If all of that is average then I'll take it.

How can you look at the last three years and make a definitive statement about his performance when two of them were under Trestman and Kromer and neither has been a raging success since they got fired here.  Trestman actually took a former SB winner and managed to make him a worse QB in his offense then he was before.

Last year for the first time in half a decade Cutler showed signs of being the QB we've all expected him to be running yet another new offense for the first time behind a crappy OL and without his best receivers most of the year.  Even with all that he still managed to throw for nearly 4000 yards, halved his picks and several of those you couldn't hang on him anyway.

If we released Cutler the only thing that would prevent him from being signed by someone else the next day is the time it would take to negotiate a new contract.  Jeezus sometimes I can't believe some of you actually went through all of those assclowns we had playing QB all those years and can still post like this!  Is your memory that short! 

Ah, much better.  Now I do feel like this is home again!

Agreed ric. We've been putting it off a couple years due to multiple other more important needs, but the time has come. QB must be addressed next year. We need our next starter lined up. I do not want to see 20 guys go through the QB turnstyle the next few years. Been there done that.

I see a smiley face, but that is a very depressing thought...

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The Cutler arguments about the past performances are just past history to me.  I don't care about the past, but I do want to see a decent offense moving forward under the Pace/Fox regime.  Maybe Jay has a few solid years left in the tank.  Maybe not.  But I do think it's time for the Bears to be figuring out the exit-plan for when we do move on from him.  While I don't care about rehashing the past Bears QB woes, of the past many years, I do care VERY much about getting the QB thing for the future figured out.  It may not be easy.  But we still need to try and get a solid starter - and a halfway decent backup in place sooner rather than later.  I'm gonna be hopping mad if we see Jay gone, and all of a sudden we're in crisis mode trying to figure it out in a year where we SHOULD be a solid playoff team... and instead are screwed once again.  A day late and a dollar short, type of thing  :-)