Thread: Trestman Anxious to Work With Cutler; Jay's Not Going Anywhere........

Trestman said his “quarterback is going to have the keys to the car,” but he’s going to evaluate Cutler, whom he called “very intelligent” on macro and micro levels. “I can’t wait to get my hands on him and go to work with him,” Trestman said. “I think he’s ready.”

I know we've beaten the Cutler thing to death. I just believe the guy will be fine. He needs to improve some things. He will.

I'm not making excuses for Cutler, but I believe in fair play. He dropped into the fires of hell for a QB, when he came to the Chicago Bears. Cutler came to the Bears and many of us thought he was going to be elite like Rogers, Brady, Payton Manning. But he came to a team that had no infrastructure to support a QB. No oline, no WR's worth a crap, no OC worth a crap, and we had a head coach who didn't know his butt from a hole in the ground when it came to offense.

He was utterly without weapons or players worth a crap - nothing.

Yet, we were all sitting around thinking we're in the Super Bowl for sure now. We had the same crazy notions when Emery brought in Brandon Marshall. But in reality we had 3 players - Cutler, Marshall & Forte. And the rest were pure crap. We still don't have a single TE on the roster who can catch a football. Not one.

OK, here's where people start jumping in and saying "but you're making excuses for him".........Man, they're not excuses, but rather painting the picture of reality here. The man dropped into a hellish situation. He weekly went out and had the living crap beaten out of him. Abused, concussed, and injured.

OK, fast forward to the present, 2013. Now we talk about "fixing" Cutler. I don't think he's broken. I think the offense is broken. Some here say his mechanics are bad. Reality is that a number of Hall of Fame level QB's had mechanics that were bad. They still were great QB's. I'm not worried about Jay's mechanics....heck, the guy can throw incredible passes while dancing with DE's trying to rip his head off. Sure, the guy can improve his game, and needs to. But, let's get "real" here. Get the man a decent coach & resources (all of the ones mentioned above) and we're going to be just fine.

But he won't be elite.

Why does that fact bother people? He's not elite. But he's very very good - and that's good enough to get us where we need to be. Some get all upset saying we paid an elite price for the guy, so that means he HAS to be elite. I'm over that. What we paid to get him here is water over the dam. Let's move on.

Finally, I get upset when folks point to Brady or Rodgers or whomever and say things like THEY have not had perfect pass protection or whatever - and THEY do just fine. Hey, I don't give a rip what other guys have, I just know that for Jay to succeed HERE he needs some stuff to work with......certainly more than he has been given. I don't have a problem with him not being Rodgers or Brady.

Trestman will work with Jay, but the BEST thing we can do for Jay is to fix the offense. Give the guy the resources he needs to succeed. Not just players, but a decent OC and yes, maybe call some decent plays during games too. Then we AND Jay will be fine.

Maybe instead of getting upset at yet another thread that asks who else we might prefer for a QB in place of Jay Cutler it's better to just emphasize why I believe threads like that are useless and just more mental masturbation. So if the future I'll just ignore them and post these instead. Maybe that's better for us all.

Why do I think they're useless? Because when you pay attention to what's actually going on instead of day dreaming up topics for a thread you can see that Emery has no intentions of replacing Cutler any time soon and what's contained in this article tells us why so by reading it and understanding what it's saying it confirms that.

IF Phil Emery was not sold on Jay Cutler as his QB he would not label him as a "franchise QB". IF Phil Emery wasn't sold on Jay Cutler as his QB it's highly unlikely he wouldn't have asked him to interview his three finalists for the HC spot and provide him with feedback on each. IF you don't intend to extend the guy and keep him around a while why would you care WHAT he thought about his future coach?

Trestman has a four year deal while Cutler has just one left. So why ask him to help you evaluate your top candidates if you don't believe he'll be playing for one of them more than just one season? Trestman has a rep for developing QBs and could possibly develop another quickly yet everything he talks about and everything Phil Emery talks about lead us to the conclusion that the goal is to develop Jay Cutler into the 5 star QB they and many other believe he can be. There's not even the slightest hint of looking elsewhere.

So where is there even one iota of doubt or one verbal indication of any kind or a single shred of evidence that Trestman OR Emery are even thinking about any other QB besides Cutler right now? I can't find one here or anywhere else other than in the minds of some fans who just don't like Cutler and have a secret or not so secret wish to replace him with someone else. In fact most anyone else if a guy like Joe Flacco is considered as having more upside than Cutler has in this organization.

Jay Cutler is nowhere near at the top of his game, one of the reasons Trestman was hired was to get him there, and both will be given a reasonable period of time to do that in. I'd count on that being more than a single season as well. The chances of the Bears finding and developing another QB with the skills and potential Cutler has any time soon are virtually nil. We don't even have a likely candidate on the roster unless Matt Blanchard becomes some sort of miracle man going from NCAA Div. III to starting NFL QB in just one year. We also don't have the luxury of spending a high draft choice on a better prospect.

So there you have it. From my perspective Jay is the guy who's being counted on to develop his passing skills and leadership ability to the levels needed to become a Super Bowl QB and unlike some I don't think he's all that far from it. Trestman is here to provide that final push and if that fails yes, THEN we'll be looking for another QB but that's not even close to happening now. So I plan on looking over prospects in FA and the draft where we need immediate help far more than we do at QB.

Any of the rest of you who want to day dream about other Super Bowl QBs are more than welcome to do so and I'll no longer comment. Me, I prefer to focus on and watch the ongoing development of the one we have.

Originally Posted by motownbear

i think cutler is here to say but urgency on signing him longterm should be with caution. It might cost more to wait if he has a great season but if we just extend him now and the offense still goes no where next year depending on circumstance I would weigh my options

There are gambles involved in either mo and this is what Emery has to weigh. Trestman's opinion of Jay's attitude and willingness to learn will play a big part in this and so far we'd heard him speak very positively about it and I'm really not all that surprised by it.

Jay Cutler has all the necessary skills of a top NFL QB but he's lacked the consistency and maturity to become one. Trestman knows how to mold those and polish them and in this case we aren't polishing a turd. Cutler's got the goods. We all know that and we've all seen it in him.

I'm really not worried about him going elsewhere because I don't think he's even interested in going elsewhere. As long as this team is interested and willing to have him as their QB he will be. He wants to win and I believe that he finally has a guy to work with that he has enough faith in that he will listen and adapt himself to Trestman's "system".

When they extend him isn't really important at all. We have some cap room to deal with for 2013 but we're not in as good of shape as we will be in 2014 so an extension can wait if it has to in order to take care of other priorities. If Jay plans on staying he won't be out to break the bank either. I don't see that in his personality.

He may even prefer waiting another year so that he's coming off a more successful season but in any event there's no rush to get it done. We have a few of our own who are FAs now that need to be taken care of and of course a decision made regarding Urlacher. I say get that done first and then worry about taking care of Jay. I think they're gonna want to push some of the big dollars in his deal off into 2014 and after to begin with and keep the 2013 money for others.

Unless they absolutely need him to restructure his 2013 salary to free up cap space I don't think Emery is in all that big of a rush to get it done. He has time on his side and so far he's been using that well. He seems pretty efficient in the way he prioritizes matters so I'm just gonna sit back and let him go about his business. We could all out think JA most of the time but I don't see that with Emery.

More than likely Trestman sees that Cutler is one of the few things that isn't broken on offense. He needs to improve, but that's not the same as being broken. There are so many things on the team that ARE broken - or so old that you KNOW it's "soon to be broken" like our LB situation, that I just don't worry about Cutler.

It's like the house is on fire and we're worried that we didn't get the bed made this morning. Man, we've got REAL problems to fix. Cutler will be just fine.