Interesting...

It has been proven.  I told you that and the lack of any logic behind a trade for Cutler when the Titans were lined up on Mariotta proves it.  There's only fire if you're the one with the matches or you choose to believe all the pre-draft hoo haa ESPN and the NFL Network have to churn out to keep viewer interest high.

Cutler has never refused to run a system even when Martz nearly got him killed with his.

And what two HCs benched him? Trestman benched him for one game in his dying attempts to keep his job and it was a miserable failure.  Fox has never benched him.....yet, and now he can't.  Come on Ric stick to facts.  You aren't doing that here.

So you know exactly why Pace did what he did huh?  I didn't realize you two were so close.  What all or nothing approach?  He could have traded back in round one and taken Lynch.  Two or three more QBs went in rounds two and three and Prescott who even I though would make an ideal understudy to Cutler and for the kind of offense I envisioned the Bears running they passed on.  So did he fail or was it simply because he and Fox had expressed their joint satisfaction with the progress Cutler had made last year and therefore QB was a lesser priority than other positions?

If you won't follow the logic trail of that then there's nothing more can say that you'd grasp either.  None of your scenarios makes any sense and you're substituting fiction for fact trying to support your position even when you know that will never work with me.

The reality is Cutler is the best QB on this team and if you can even find 1% of knowledgeable football fans who would say differently I would be shocked.  You've even turned your recent opinions of Hoyer around to suit your argument here and we can go back and look those up if you like.

Cutler is an above average passer with a bad habit of forcing throws to make plays because in order to win too many times it was the only choice he had.  Put him on a better team and he'll win more games than he loses just as he did before the wheels fell off this team about 4 or 5 years ago.  On any given week he's as good as a Joe Flacco or an Eli Manning, a Philip Rivers, or a Matt Ryan and a Matthew Stafford who have all had their own issues winning behind crappy team as well.

For Cutlers sake and for the sake of all the whiny ass fans who've forgotten how much worse it was before we even had a QB as "average" as Cutler is supposed to be I really do hope he's traded to a better team and then we'll all watch the Bears go through yet another decade of trying to find that magical franchise QB we never seem able to draft.

"With the franchise heading in the wrong direction, the team's brass has begun a full examination of the football operation from top to bottom, according to several sources briefed of their process."

This is the piece that we need to be centering on; this isn't about Cutler or Fox imo, thread got derailed. This group is looking at at HH, not players/coaches. Hopefully this means Swetty Teddy will be moved out of anything having to do w/football decisions, and others in HH might also be moved/fired. This is huge first step if anything comes of it.

I think of it like when you go to a business event and you start talking business w/the competition. And everyone looks at that one company and it's like, wtsf are they doing and why? Who is running it, why did they hire him, and why did they hire who they hired? B/c that place is a F'n mess.  Everyone knows, and eventually the company itself hears about it.