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Jay Cutler vs Josh McCown

Proudiddy

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What do you all think?

I've never understood what all the hype was about Cutler to begin with. To me, he's always been an overhyped, underperforming scrub. I just really don't get the media infatuation with him. He is ALWAYS talked about, yet he has never consistently won, and he's been a bad teammate and inconsistent player individually, usually underperforming as I previously mentioned.

So now, McCown, our former backup, has been killing it in his absence. And to me, his play proves how little Cutler does for his teams. Perhaps a great deal of McCown's success can be attributed to playing for a QB guru like Trestman, but Cutler played under him before his injury and seemed like the same guy as before.

If you're the Bears, what do you do this year and going forward?

I think it would be a cruel joke to their fanbase (which they deserve for stealing all of our players) if they re-sign him to a big deal after he's proved how inconsequential his presence is there.

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Yeah, I thought there was no way they could with how he's been playing either, but Marshall has been adamant about Cutler starting when he comes back. And of course, McCown has said all the right things to not rock the boat.

Regardless, if I'm the Bears, I'd be letting Cutler walk and draft a young guy to groom for a year or so behind McCown, versus paying Cutler a bunch of money he doesn't deserve.

Also, as an aside, I so wish we would've drafted Jeffrey. He's everything LaFell should be.

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At first glance, one could say there is a chance that the Bears could let Cutler walk in the offseason.

But then you have to consider, who will they replace him with? In the pool of FA QB's next year, Cutler is by far the best candidate.

McCown is playing well, but he's 34, and on his eighth team. I don't think the Bears have a choice but to keep Cutler. If they draft one next year, who will it be, what guarantees do they have that he will work out? Look what's happening to the Titans with Locker.

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McCown is playing great and the type of QB like McCown isn't unprecedented. Some pocket QBs are like a fine wine and sometimes it takes awhile before they completely get it.

 

Warner was stocking shelves, Gannon was riding the pine, Beuerlein was riding the pine.

 

There is a huge mental aspect to playing NFL QB and some QBs take a long time before they fully learn the league.

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on the one hand this strikes me as a dumb move

 

on the other hand, mccown is 34 years old and even if cutler isn't the future, mccown sure as hell isn't

 

The future is overrated. The goal is a Super Bowl and the Bears don't even make the playoffs frequently. Manning is over 40, Elway won it over 40, Gannon went when he was around 40.

 

The future is a good quarterback, not a young quarterback. What was the point of the Panthers playing Chris Weinke? Looking back, who here wouldn't have taken another year of Beuerlein?

 

Every team is looking for Andrew Luck and many are just wasting their time and putting out bad football. Play the best player. No good player rots away on the bench. Rodgers had to wait for Favre.

 

Speaking of Favre, look at the Vikings. They had their best year in recent history I can remember with him in his 40s.

 

Do you want good football or young football?

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