Because my Bears and Jay Cutler suck worse than usual. I have been watching football for a long time and I have never had more disdain for a player than I do for Cutler. He is just a flat out underachieving loser and pretty much the antithesis of NU football players. Thank god for the Cats this fall.
NU Football Will Save My Football Season This Fall
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But Corbi, you're ignoring the big picture. Start familiarizing yourself with this sentence: "With the second pick in the 2016 NFL draft, the Chicago Bears select (insert franchise QB here)". I say "second" because getting the first pick would be perfect - and that just doesn't happen around here.
I haven't been able to watch the Bears for a couple of years now. With few exceptions, even mediocre Bears teams have usually been able to play defense. This year's edition is a disgrace to the tradition of George, Butkus, Singletary, Urlacher etc. About 25 years of the Packers beating them like a drum has gotten very old.
I'm two for three, with my kid's HS team at 4-0 and the 'Cats at 3-0. I'll take that trade for the Bears any day….
It's incredible how much hate there is for Cutler out there. As I was driving into town for the Cubs game yesterday I heard the Bears start the game by allowing the opening kickoff to be run back for a touchdown. All I could think of was half the media and 3/4 of the fans scrambling to find a way to blame Jay Cutler for the run-back. Of course the other half of the media was scrambling to find a way to blame Starlin Castro.
What franchise QB are you talking about? Hackenberg is Jay Cutler with worse legs. Cook isn't going to be a franchise QB. Who's left? Cardale Jones, nope. Dak Prescott? Doubt it. Maybe Jared Goff. I'd rather keep Cutler (while not an elite QB, not the bear's biggest problem) and fix one of the lines.But Corbi, you're ignoring the big picture. Start familiarizing yourself with this sentence: "With the second pick in the 2016 NFL draft, the Chicago Bears select (insert franchise QB here)". I say "second" because getting the first pick would be perfect - and that just doesn't happen around here.
You can take Tunsil out of Ole Miss or Stanley out of Notre Dame at OT. You then move Long back to Guard and take Tuerk from USC, Jack Allen from MSU, or Dan Voltz from Wisconsin in round 2/3 Bushrod, Slausen, Allen, Long, Stanley could be a line that allows Cutler to get comfortable.
Or you can go with Bosa or to play DE or Robert Nkemdiche. Personally, I'd play Nkendiche as a 3-4 DE. I'd expect Bosa to be more of a pass rushing DE like JJ Watt, while Nkendiche is the big guy who takes up blocks at DE like Richard Seymour. That will help out the defense a lot. You need lineman to run a 3-4.
Jay cutler's two biggest faults are 1) his contemporary with Green Bay is for mine money the top QB over the last 5+ years and a top 5 QB all-time and 2) cutler is paid like a top 5 QB, when he's a top 20 QB.
I agree, I would not spend a top 5 pick on the QB's in this draft. Goff is the only one I would consider if he really blows up here. I think it's been proven, great QB's can be found in any round, but the Bears need to start looking as jimmy clausen isn't going to cut it.
I agree, I would not spend a top 5 pick on the QB's in this draft. Goff is the only one I would consider if he really blows up here. I think it's been proven, great QB's can be found in any round, but the Bears need to start looking as jimmy clausen isn't going to cut it.
I am not a Cutler fan but when you look at that roster, what gives you any impression that they are going to be successful. There are only about 4 draft picks over the last 6 years or so starting. That pretty much says it all.
I divorced myself from the Bears when my son was born. No way I was going to waste precious time watching that pile of crap. It's the Cats and college ball for me. Little Hungry is getting regular doses of purple nowadays.
And replaced with what exactly? I am not a Cutler fan but not much of a way to replace him quickly. Want to draft a guy? Pretty much a crapshoot and pretty meaningless until you shore up other positions. And there are so many holes on that team. Here is a plan. Draft a guy in the 2nd or 3rd round and develop him over a couple years and then let Cutler go.
I think a big portion of the dislike for him is how much they had to give up to get him and the ridiculous extension they signed him to more than his actual performance. At any time there are about 5-6 elite QBs, ten starters that are pretty bad and about 15 in the middle that can be good or bad on any given week. The backups are mostly pretty bad. He falls in that middle 15. Probably about #15 overall and that is actually pretty high for the Be ars over their recent history.
Since QBs, (especially elite ones) seem to stay in the league for about 15 years it means one comes along on average only once every 3-4 years. And many of the guys they think are going to be elite turn out to be busts. Look at the guys taken #1 (or close to it) that have been basically busts. Tebow, RGIII, Tim Couch, Jamarcus Russel. Jeff George, Vince Young. I could go on. The closest things I say to can't miss were Andrew Luck and the Mannings. Other than that...
Didn't have a particular guy in mind, but it definitely isn't Hackenberg. Generally, over the course of a college season, a couple guys emerge, guys who weren't necessarily thought of as top ten-type picks before the season started. At any rate, you are unfortunately correct in pointing out the many holes that the Bears have to fill. Depressing stuff, to be sure.
