The Good Ole Days of Bear Football are Back!

[FirstTimer]

Caleb Hanie benched.

We are now onto our 3rd starting QB of the season.

Josh McCown.

[wr50l]

To roughly quote W2B ... Enough is enough, Jay Cutler is the best player in the world.

Not really but wow, his detractors look awful silly now.

[Houston]

What's that saying? "The apples don't fall far from each other."



His brother Luke already put up a 1.8 passer rating, good luck with that.

[ralaw]

Somewhere Donavan McNabb shakes his head.

[NAHSTE]

To roughly quote W2B ... Enough is enough, Jay Cutler is the best player in the world.

Not really but wow, his detractors look awful silly now.

Why is that, exactly? Because Caleb Hanie sucks?

[Rayman]

Tears of McCown!

[wr50l]

Why is that, exactly? Because Caleb Hanie sucks?

Jay Cutler has been getting pelters for years about not being the answer for the Bears, even before the playoff knee injury thing. Him going down and his team going down with him is Peyton Manning-ish (obviously on a smaller scale).

[NAHSTE]

Jay Cutler has been getting pelters for years about not being the answer for the Bears, even before the playoff knee injury thing. Him going down and his team going down with him is Peyton Manning-ish (obviously on a smaller scale).

I guess, I just never like when we give players credit for being "valuable" when they miss time based on how shitty their backup is.

[FirstTimer]

I guess, I just never like when we give players credit for being "valuable" when they miss time based on how shitty their backup is.

It's more than just that though. Cutler made this line and WR's look somewhat competant at times. Hanie steps in and we see the line we saw years ago...the WR's suck...badly.

Jay Cutler did a lot to mask the short comings of the other positions around him. It's not just Hanie sucking..it's seeing how bad everyone else sucks now too.

[NAHSTE]

It's more than just that though. Cutler made this line and WR's look somewhat competant at times. Hanie steps in and we see the line we saw years ago...the WR's suck...badly.

Jay Cutler did a lot to mask the short comings of the other positions around him. It's not just Hanie sucking..it's seeing how bad everyone else sucks now too.

That's fair too, but it's not like we were giving the WRs and OL undue praise until Haney took over. We pretty much knew those units were shit and we've all said that since Week 1. Cutler and Forte were doing god's work with that shit bunch of guys around them, but I thought that was already agreed upon.

I don't know, maybe it's different in the Chicago area but I thought most people had kind of come around on Cutler. He's not a GREAT player but he's definitely a good, sometimes really good QB who plays in an otherwise crappy offense.

[FirstTimer]

That's fair too, but it's not like we were giving the WRs and OL undue praise until Haney took over.

You'd be shcoked what people were saying in Chicago. How Tice was genius for getting this OL together. How Knox and Bennett had done so well. Hell, The bears gave Earl Bennett $19 million! I think he has all of 4 catches the last few weeks. Cutler goes down and it goes to shit.

I don't know, maybe it's different in the Chicago area but I thought most people had kind of come around on Cutler.

No lie.

Some people though Hanie could take Jay's job coming into this season based on the NFCCG last year.

[s@ppisgod]

Somewhere Donavan McNabb shakes his head.

Somewhere Donovan McNabb is practicing for spring training, where his one-hoppers are actually useful...
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[West]

start enderle already

[Blade]

I think Forte was actually more valuable than Cutler.

[s@ppisgod]

I think Forte was actually more valuable than Cutler.

Forte is the better player, undoubtedly. But the Cutler loss was bigger. Mainly because of their lack of a competent back-up, but also due to the passing game shortening the field so much. You can find serviceable RBs easier than you can find serviceable QBs.
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