Jay Cutler Sucks [And Why He Has To Be Bad Right Now]
Jay Cutler is bad. Jay Cutler cannot live up to the expectations. Jay Cutler is so arrogant he has never seen a pass he didn’t think he could make. Am I missing anything? Okay now that we have that covered, let’s get down to business. The Kool-Aid is tasting a little sour the last few weeks, I’ll admit that. But its still 10,000 times better than any QB-Kool-Aid I ever drank (besides Kurt Kittner in 01-02, but I digress).
Now there are 2 schools of thought when it comes to this Cutler situation. The first is that Cutler is awesome, but he has no defense, offensive line, or wide receivers, so he is in an impossible situation. The second is that, yeah, the rest of the team is bad, but that doesn’t excuse Cutler for being so terrible. Both are correct to some degree. Here is what I think is really going on though.
Jay Cutler came to Chicago with high expectations. I mean he personally had high expectations for himself and this team. He thought this was it. He was one of the top quarterbacks in the league going from a sub-par team to a pretty good team. He wanted to win bad. Their was Super Bowl talk and contender talk and he, being the confident guy he is, thought he could make it happen.
Then the season started with that hiccup in Green Bay, but he bounced back from that. Even though the Bears started winning, however, it became clear that the defense was rusty and aging and they would not be able to help carry the load. So he started pressing. And pressing. And as the defense deteriorated into a worthless pile of shit, he began to revert to what he did in Denver, try to win games by himself. While the offensive line does look like swiss cheese, it really doesn’t seem to affect Jay too much. He is able to scramble and create time for himself (although the run game being shitty is a huge factor). Thus we can’t blame them too much if that was what you were thinking.
So Jay’s bad performance, well that is on Jay, although I can understand why. He DOES need to win games by himself on this joke of a team. So while we should be pointing our fingers at him for being somewhat shitty and pressing, we should also do it while understanding that it’s not him giving away games we should win, but instead trying to salvage games that we most assuredly will lose.
H/T Picture: Sun-Times
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