Broc said:
Because it proves that the problem wasn't Trestman or his system.
A career journeyman scrub who was out of football coaching kids walked in off the street and resurrected his career by simply running Trestman's offense the way it's supposed to be run (i.e - simply making quick reads and throwing to the open man).
All we heard from Cutler, McCown, and Palmer that offseason was how amazing Trestman's system was, how QB friendly it was, and how he was giving them all the answers to whatever defenses threw at them.
McCown's play proved that point perfectly. He didn't have the natural arm talent Cutler has yet was able to outplay him by simply running the offense the way it was coached and doing the basic things correctly like reading the defense and throwing to the open guy.
Cutler was in full buy-in mode in 2013 playing for a new contract and actually appeared to be trying to run the system (albiet not as well as McCown did but still decently enough minus the injuries to fool Emery into giving him a huge contract).
And sure enough, after getting his big contract he reverted right back into old Jay. Happy feet in the pocket throwing off his back foot like he's MJ shooting a fade away jumper resulting in a terrible accuracy regression, locking on to receivers and telegraphing his throws, not trusting his reads and holding onto the ball instead of simply throwing it to the open man, etc, etc.. but instead of blaming the QB for this regression we have morons on here content to pin it all on Trestman and playcalling.
Like Cutler's terrible decision making and downfield accuracy wasting play after play had nothing to do with the gameplans becoming more and more scaled back and vanilla or something. It's fucking ridiculous. Do you honestly think Trestman wanted to run an offense of screen passes and check downs to Forte?!? Or maybe the games were called that way because that's the only way the QB could move the ball down the field without turning it over...
I can't disagree with this, Broc. What's so frustrating to me, is that Cutler CAN play above average, even have flashes of greatness, some of his 4th quarter wins were pretty amazing, but he shoots himself in the foot so often, loses games with REDZONE INTS and other stupid mistakes (see Broc's long list above) that it negates any greatness. I think he's above average, but with his shortcomings, he ends up being a serious liability, and that's why he'll probably be gone soon. This is his last shot. McCown DID know how to play within the system, that's why he did well. Cutler is too much of a gunslinger. Now, I don't put ALL OF THAT on him, our DEF was bad, he was playing from behind quite often, HAD to take some shots, but he also dug himself quite a few holes.
Should be interesting to see what the future holds. I like Jay, I think he's funny, talented, but so unreliable. I expect we'll draft his replacement in the 1st/2nd round next year. He'll be here this year, and MAYBE one more year.
