Free Agency CAP Space

I figure that Fox is here for another year whether we like that or not.  Loggains & Cutler, will be the sacrifices offered up to appease the angry fan base, and we will bring in a new OC & QB.  

If we have to wait until training camp to decide Cutler's fate, then we are more dysfunctional than I thought.  There is zero chance we go into training camp with Jay Cutler.  Book it.  He's gone.  For better or for worse, Jay has crapped his last bed here in Chicago.  I don't wish anything bad on him though.  Good luck to him and his new team.

Cutting McPhee won't do anything for us. We don't Need that Cap Space and a guy like him, a leader and personality, only adds to the Team. That's a Player you want to have around, not getting cut.

Cap Space is not an issue for us

Thinkin' it don't make it so.  I'm gonna tread water 'til January and see what happens.  I don't ever make predictions.  I only look at what is and what the other options are.  No one could have predicted we'd be 2-9 by now and right now no one can predict who'll be the HC and QB next year either.

If you tour some other places as often as I do you might see that not every Bears fan is as fed up with Cutler, or willing to blame him for this shit, as the emotional bunch around here is.  I'm fine with trading him provided we have a plan to acquire better but when I read someone like Belli saying for all he cares we can go 0-16 just as long as it's without Cutler well then I'd say that's about the dumbest thing I ever read.

If that's the case your moderation duties will need to increase because you won't find me in support of any further retrenching just to satisfy the Cutler "lynch mob".  I'll be long gone because there's actually a well run NFL team wearing blue and orange locally who wins more often than they lose.  Thirty years of the McCaskeys shitting my bed is more than enough for me.

I think most here do but if you get around a bit I think you'll find more "old school" fans remember the multiple QBs we've had starting for well over a decade who were far worse and have no desire to return to that.  Their viewpoint is far more balanced since it's not as overly influenced by such a strong anti-Cutler contingent as we have here. Given some defensive support and decent protection he's been a winner far more often than he's been a loser and that is a verifiable fact not a perception.

I disagree that Cutler would prefer to move on but as he said himself he's prepared for it if that's what it comes down to.  Knowing Cutler I think he'd rather remain here and lead the team back to winning.  Whether I think he'd be better off elsewhere or you do is beside the point.  Thinking we actually know is just a rationalization and projecting our thoughts onto him.  I'd prefer he stay 'til we have better but I'm fed up with all the whining about it.  Rather then to read it I'd just as soon make myself scarce, and I have.

What we can expect to get is always gonna be in the wind unless it happens.  He actually has a pretty sweet contract for a vet with his experience and skills so I would not sell cheap if I was Ryan Pace until I had squeezed out every possibility of getting fair value for a vet QB of his stature. I have to think there are GMs intelligent enough to look beyond the shitty teams he's had to play with here since Lovie was fired who will look at his 65% plus winning percentage before that and his 85% plus winning percentage when teams have scored 20 points or less against us.

If you have a defense that can hold opposing teams to 20 points a game on average and need a QB who can put 24-30 on the board then you'd have to at least have an interest in Cutler if you needed a vet QB who still has some tread on his tires.  The best way to demean or destroy his trade value is to let others believe you'd simply release him just to get out from under his contract in a year when you have cap to spare even with him on the roster.  Pace doesn't have to sell so why leave that impression?  How they handle this whole affair will tell me a lot about the future of this team with it's present coaching and front office staff.