:lol: You said the Bears will take a late round QB and he will likely be bad. That's not pretty close to saying something...that is saying exactly that you think the Bears QB pick will probably be bad.

Which is something that your or I do not know.

Orton was a 4th round pick.

Joe Ostrowski ‏@JoeO670
Guaranteed: Rodgers-62.5m, Brees-60m, Ryan-59m, Peyton-58m, Brady-57m, Romo-55m, Cutler-54m, Flacco-52m, Bradford-50m, Stafford-41.5m

Montana didn't have an arm like Cutler. The Niner great did what he was able to do.
When Brady had the weapon (Randy Moss), he went deep. It's more about your weapons and your arm strength.

Sounds about right.

Yup.

Cutler or not,the big question is how this affects the Bears in free agent signings for next season. A lot,a little. I don't want to read they can't bring in some big FA DT because of the Cutler contract.

BD, what about Tebow?

As to the notion that it's upsetting that the Bears won't be taking a QB high, first, who cares? They have a starting QB who they have committed to. Saying that, they can still take a QB in Round 2-4 because of the importance of the position and depending on McCown's future in Chicago.

Did you pick up some extra painting gigs? Are you footing the bill for Jay's contract? If not, your judgement doesn't really matter.

Tebow probably got a nice deal for the SEC network. I think his NFL days are over.

Are you serious? Cutler is an above average starting quarterback. Taking a QB in the first round is their best chance to get an elite quarterback. That's gone.

Fourth round at best is what they should do now. With that contract, you are locked in to Cutler for 3 or 4 years. Emery could very well be fired by then.

Of course, Cutler is the starting QB now for the next 3-4 years - they were never going to take a QB in Round 1 because they think Jay Cutler is their franchise QB. You're correct - this decision will likely determine the future of Emery and Trestman over the next 3 or so years.

Terrible. Absolutely terrible. When Emery and/or Trestman are fired we will look at this as a major reason why.

The only way this deal makes any bit of sense is if you project Jay Cutler to be a top 5 quarterback over the next three years. Putting the future of the franchise in his hands for the next 4-7 years and paying him like Tony Romo is about as dumb of a move as I can remember.

No reason to even draft a quarterback now before the 5th round. Even if that quarterback becomes good it doesn't matter as your team is screwed if Jay Cutler isn't the starter making huge money.

It's hard to overstate just how bad of a position the Bears are in here. This is going to make the Romo and Flacco deals look like bargains. Jay Cutler MUST become a player who is at least in the conversation for being top 5 in the league for this to make any sense. People are already questioning how big of a mistake the Romo and Flacco contracts were and Jay Cutler doesn't have the same resume as either.

It's funny, when they traded for Jay Cutler, I said "In order for this to be a good trade, he'll have to play significantly better than he did in Denver", and then he didn't, and now for this to be a good deal for the Bears, he'll have to play significantly better than he did here. We will look back at the Jay Cutler era as a waste of time where we watched the Bears hover in the middle of the league and a quarterback who got paid a ton of money to produce enough for people to defend him by cherry picking statistics to show he's more than an above average starting quarterback.

This really sets the Bears back long term. To be honest, I would have understood completely the franchise tag for this year. This is indefensible. The Bears gained nothing here. We don't even know if another team would have offered a deal as long and as good as this.

And please, for anyone thinking or wanting to say that I just "hate Jay Cutler" please give me your expectations for him next year and for the first four years of this deal. We'll assume the last 3 years are fake anyways. How many playoff appearances? How many pro bowls? How many years will he outperform Aaron Rodgers? How many years will he outperform Matt Stafford? How many years will he outperform Blake Bortles or whoever Minnesota drafts at QB? To put it another way, if Cutler's next 4 years go as well as his past 4 years will you be happy?

So that is why people care. How didn't you get that?

Not taking a quarterback in the first round is a mistake.

I'm not concerned about outperforming other QBs. Cutler has to do enough to lead the Bears to wins.
I'm concerned about the deal, more so how it hampers the team with FA contracts or re-signing players.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I'm not concerned about outperforming other QBs. Cutler has to do enough to lead the Bears to wins.

I don't mind the Bears signed him. He might be the best FA QB out there after McCown.

I do mind if they go the Cubs route and don't chase down 4 or 5 solid adds to the defense because of this.

Richard Roeper ‏@richardroeper 4m
Jay Cutler knows how to be a .500 QB. 37-37 with Broncos, 67-67 with Bears, 1-1 in postseason.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Somebody should tell Roper that the Bears are 67-67 since 2009, but not all of those games Cutler played in.

It matters that it interferes with the Bears ability to rebuild the defense to the degree they might.

You should be though. Elite quarterbacks win titles. The exceptions to this seem to be Eli and Flacco, but they find a way to be elite when it matters. Maybe Jay Cutler is the guy who can step up when championships are on the line but he never has been before.

There is too much comparison made to previous Bears quarterbacks. You don't pay someone on par with Super Bowl winners and hall of famers because he's better than Caleb Hanie and Cade McNown.

Somebody should tell Roper that the Bears are 67-67 since 2009, but not all of those games Cutler played in.

Somebody should tell him they haven't played 134 games since 2009. That's about 8 seasons.

Sounds about right.

Somebody should tell him they haven't played 134 games since 2009. That's about 8 seasons.