Seriously DJ, what should the Bears have done at QB this offseason?
Bortles has 6TDs to 13 picks, and the Bears would have had to traded up to get him. Manziel is sitting the bench in Cleveland and Bridgewater has 2 TDs and 5 picks.
Cutler may not be a great QB, but he has thrown 17TDs and 8 picks. That is alot better than anyone else they could have brought in when done. Did they overpay? Maybe. But in a thin market you don't get rid of a talented QB. Not everybody gets an Aaron Rogers.
Still to early to call Trestman a failure. He is 11-13. Lovie is 1-6 in Tampa and his team is completely lost.
Emery is going nowhere. And if Trestman and a new DC can't get the team to the playoffs next year, then Emery will get a 2nd head coach, just like most NFL GMs get.
Lovie promoted Mike Tice to be the OC of the Bears. There are fewer more colossal coaching fuck-ups than that. At least Tucker was a DC somewhere else first.
Thanks for this. We always hear 'go get X' or 'go get Y'. As I always say - NAME HIM. Name the EXACT player you want. Sure, it was one thing to say 'go find a pro bowl caliber safety' in free agency. Ok, great. Name him. Who is that guy? If that guy even exists and his current team isn't going to re-sign him, also realize that there are probably 20 other teams who want him. Every fan of every team automatically assumes that their team will get every wanted FA.
Now to Jay - what other real options did they have? Stick with Dale Sveum - oops, Josh McCown - while they groom up their next Aaron Rodgers? Oh, wait, that guy isn't on the roster. McCown was a flash in the pan fluke and the dirty little secret is that he was successful playing against bum defenses. Even in the Dallas game, Dallas defenders dropped at least 4 easy picks. McCown looked anything but brilliant against STL. There was nothing to suggest that McCown would have any sustained success. He's an old journeyman QB with a nothing career who was out of football. A few nice games is not enough to warrant a signing. It would be a patchwork solution.
And of course, there's no young QB to draft. Even so, what young player options? Would have had to trade up to get Bortles - who isn't lighting it up - and the Bears will need those picks. Manziel, Bridgewater were the next picks. Neither are first round talents. Carr may be interesting. Garropolo went next in the second. No idea if he'll ever do anything in the NFL. The reality is that the draft was terrible for QBs this year and I'm not certain any will have distinguished NFL careers. No one to be excited about as it was with Andrew Luck.
So, the Bears effectively did what they had to do. The only thing they really could do. There are basically 15 guys in the world who can do that job very well. There are at least 10 teams in the NFL who would have happily signed Jay Cutler. Right or wrong, the Bears really had no other viable choice. Thank drafting and the inability to develop and coach up a young QB during the Angelo/Lovie era - well, under every Bears era ever, really. As for the money, Jay got the going rate.
Jay Cutler is the reality of quarterbacks in the NFL today. NE may have something in Garropolo, but Denver will be in that boat in a year or two. Let's say Peyton has one season left after this one, is Brock Ostweiler the next franchise QB in Denver? SD, NO and hopefully GB will probably be as well.