Will John Fox Return for the 2017 Season?.................

Ric, I have eyes.  I watched those games and Hoyer throws and completes far more dink and dunk passes than Cutler does. Hoyer barely threw to AJ compared to how often Cutler does and had to prompted to do it more.  He passed on throwing to him on the final play of the Indy game because it was a very low percentage pass for him to complete but not for Cutler. He couldn't take his team downfield for FG against Jax because he failed to connect downfield.

I didn't invent that stuff.  That's what actually happened and we all saw it.  Even the media was critical off it and felt we could have won both games if Cutler had played so this is not just me saying this.

Cutler wasn't throwing 6 yard dump offs to a RB when he faced 3rd and long and even YAC can be looked at as being able to hit a receiver in stride at the right time more often than not.  The longest completion Hoyer had was to Royal and that was mostly YAC as well.  The longest completions Cutler has have been downfield jump balls to AJ on throws that Hoyer could only make in his dreams. They don't even come close to throwing with the same velocity and trajectory.

Ric there is no way you can adequately compare on to the other as a staring QB which is why Cutler has been with two teams and starter almost his entire career whereas Hoyer had been a traveling QB for hire more often than not as a #2.  You might just as well be comparing Langford to Forte because they've both started games at RB.  Cutler can win games Hoyer cannot and we've seen that in real time now.

For what its worth:

Air Yards: the total distance that a football is thrown beyond the line of scrimmage to the point of reception. Air yards is calculated by taking total passing yards and subtracting Yards After the Catch (YAC).

Cutler: 4.7 yards per attempt ranked 6th league wide (after eliminating guys like Whitehurst and Mallet from the ranks)
Hoyer: 3.6 yards per attempt ranked 25th league wide

 

OK, we see it different then.  End of story.  But it sure is funny most everyone else saw a much different offense and a much different response by an opponent who now had to account for a QB who can and did throw downfield successfully.  I can't ignore the results and neither should you.

You can lose or break even with Hoyer next year if you like but I'd prefer to take my chances winning with Cutler because he's the far better QB of the two.

What bugs me is many of Cutler's mistakes and turnovers have come from being in a position where he had to take risks in order to win and at least he was willing to try stats be damned. But when faced with the same problem Hoyer wasn't even willing to try and instead seemingly prefers to pad his stats.  So which one wants to win more?