Chicago Bears: These quarterbacks have made us who we are
By Sam Fels
Look, I’m not doing this whole thing again. You know the whole thing. I’ll say I’m a shameless Jay Cutler mark, and the fact that he assumes everyone is an idiot only makes me love him more because I assume everyone is an idiot.
He certainly helped write his own downfall, but he wasn’t helped by a collection of offensive lines that were just I-Passes, or offensive coordinators who were massively entertained by balloons during games, and receivers who had said balloons for hands. It could have worked. It didn’t.
Maybe without the injuries. Maybe with just one decent coordinator. Maybe a general manager who could draft anyone with any talent whatsoever. Maybe if Jay was a little more accepting. Not that it matters now. The Bears and Cutler tried to make it work for nearly a decade.
Still, the juxtaposition of fans thinking Cutler was soft, when for at least five seasons he would have a fist shoved down his throat every play by a defensive lineman who didn’t even get a wave from a tackle as they went by, was pretty hilarious. Anyway, I said we’re not going to do this and I meant it. I only have so much left between the ears and in my soul.