I'm not one of the guy who thinks we should all stop talking about Jay Cutler, or ban those discussions to the dreaded Jay Cutler Forum. The guy is playing the most important position in positional sports and he was the NFL's highest-paid player last year, so he's obviously deserving of a lot of debate. And there's new people here all the time, so what a poster with 10,000 posts might have talked about 6 months ago hasn't necessarily been discussed by those of us under 1,000. The guys that bitch and moan about Cutler threads or derail them all with gifs get on my nerves more than just about anybody here, though I'm sure they couldn't care less about that.
What I don't understand, however, is how there's still anybody left for those of us who have given up on "Cutty" to debate with. Cutler's do-or-die season was last year, and he was a tremendous flop. Name me another player in all of sports who has ever gotten that sort of contract and found himself on the bench before the end of the season? It is over. It was, in my opinion, after 2012, but the Bears chose to extend Cutler that year, then undeservedly reward him in 2014. But that's the past. What matters now is that he proved himself no better than average with the entire team built around him. And average quarterbacks don't make $16-22 million. It's that simple.
Additionally, with a new regime in place, it is time to look to the future. A 32 year old quarterback is not the future. Cutler's time has passed. It's difficult for me to understand how people cannot see that, even his fans. Yes, it's sad that it didn't work out for him here in Chicago. But it's over.
