http://www.netonenews.com/2016/04/20/be ... ay-cutler/

Well, this is getting fun.

Thanks to a pair of blockbuster trades, the Rams and Eagles will select a pair of quarterbacks– Cal’s Jared Goff and North Dakota State’s Carson Wentz, in some order– with the top two picks in next Thursday’s NFL Draft. Now general managers around the league are scrambling to make sure they’re not left without a viable QB when the music stops.

The New York Jets, unable to solve their Ryan Fitzpatrick dilemma, won’t head to camp with just Geno Smith and Bryce Petty under contract. A source says the club has been looking for an opportunity “to trade up and draft one of the top tier guys” but the “window’s shut” after losing to Philadelphia in a four-team bidding war (Eagles, Jets, Bills, and one unnamed team) to acquire Cleveland’s number two overall pick.

Now the Jets are setting their sites on supremely-talented but much-maligned Bears’ QB Jay Cutler.

The Bears, who have been fielding (and considering) offers on Cutler during most of his tenure with the club, are finally in a spot where the cap ramifications of dealing the 2006 first rounder would be “manageable.”

A deal between the Jets and Bears is ready to go contingent on the availability of Memphis QB Paxton Lynch to the Bears on draft day.

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The Bears currently hold the 11th pick in the draft. Coincidentally, it’s the identical spot where the Broncos selected Cutler ten years ago.

A source says the Bears are willing to jump up from number eleven to draft Lynch, but absent a trade partner, any speculation about details of that trade would be frivolous. Any deal to move up is not expected to impact the negotiated swap with the Jets.

Geno Smith’s role in this deal is intriguing. Having worn out his welcome in New York, he’d be thrown into a competition with David Fales and Matt Blanchard for the number two spot on the Bears’ depth chart. This, of course, assumes Lynch is installed as the starter out of the gate.

We’re assuming nothing.

Stay tuned.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I don't buy this...won't happen.

As underwhelming as Cutler has been, he's still a legit starting NFL QB and every year that supply gets lower.

Trading Cutler is a white flag trade. No chance the Bears want that kind of bad marketing.

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This would be the move of the offseason. What is going to happen next year with him here is really easy to predict. At least with a young quarterback we can look towards building something for the future.

He is a league average quarterback leaving his prime years on a team that has a ceiling of sneaking into the playoffs if everything bounces their way.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

You are the Curious Hair of Cutler.

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Elections have consequences.

Except I've never been proven wrong on Cutler.

Toews won another cup!

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I'd love to trade Cutler, I don't think it will happen.

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This is too good to be true.

Would love it except the source is shaky at best.

Nice reporting. I can't figure out if the deal is 11 and Cutler for 7 or Cutler for 7. If it is Cutler for 7, I think I'd be cool with that.

I'd be even cooler with Mo Wilkerson and 7 for Cutler and a something other than 11.

EDIT: I don't know why I thought the Jets had a top ten pick...maybe because they always seem to have a top 10 pick

Anyway, Cutler for #20 is interesting. They could then take Lynch at 11 and a pass rusher like Ogbah or Spence at 20.

If I were the Beloved, I'd be pushing to get Wilkerson in that deal.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

for all the bitching about the cutler deal a few years ago.... his contract is actually reasonable considering what even worse qb's are getting paid today.

Some knew this when the contract was made.

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Elections have consequences.

I think the bitching was more about it making him un moveable at a time it would have been logical to move him

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

It has gotten slightly better though there are still plenty of quarterbacks who outperform him and make less.

He's still a very bad combination of highly paid, older, and average on a team that isn't in need of an average quarterback to win the Super Bowl. The biggest problem is that he is currently an obstruction to the next quarterback and has been since he signed the deal.

We have the benefit of hindsight on that deal to know that the extension was a huge mistake. The team has been bad. He is getting older. This will be the first year they actually try and find the next franchise QB, and even that may not happen. The Bears aren't going to be good this year. The production by Cutler was basically average for a starting QB over the length of his highly paid deal. It's basically been wasted seasons and this one, if he isn't traded, may be the most wasted of them all.

The best thing that could happen would be for this trade to happen, Geno Smith to suck on the field for a year while we let Lynch sit for a year, and then we have an actual rebuilding year for once.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

This has to be an article from the Onion.

Too good to be true that the Bears would dump Cutler, after Fox talked Cutler up last year, calling him a "surprise."

If anything, the Bears will trade down to get two picks in the 1st round. They need more young talent.

FYI.....this is the 1st sports post on this page since last September. I don't even know how Jimmy found this.

Trading Cutler and getting Paxton Lynch would make for a great 2016 draft for the Bear. Lynch is the real deal. Cutler isnt.

This is not clear for me.

If it is contingent on Lynch being available, they would just take him at 11. If they wait to see if he is available at 20 (Jets pi9ck), the bears would have already selected a player????? so this makes no sense. Now if they are saying if Lynch is not available come 11, then they would trade back - I could see that yes but then you wouldnt have Lynch. So again it doesnt make sense.

I think the trade may happen but I dont think it will if Lynch is available at 11 and no one else trades up to get him. I like Dak more anyways. But if Lynch is gone at 11 I can see the Bears trading back - I dont see why they would take Geno though...They would prefer picks and Draft Dak in the second round.

Maybe a move from round 2 back into the 1st round, but the details don't quantify then.

Considering the Bears will be in a transition year for a couple more years (at least this and next), why not get rid of him for a 1st rder? He is not going to get them to the SB. I would take the pick, and add more talent to this team.

Well they wont get a first rounder for him. Per the trade noted in the link, trading down would net you a 2nd rounder next year and Geno Smith...Geno Smith sucks...

Trading Cutler to aquire a QB in this draft?


I don't like it unless the Bears are keeping the #11 and getting another pick in this draft that they use to take a QB.

None of the QB's in this draft are worth a 1st round grade imo

I'm fine with trading Cutler tho.

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If the rule you followed lead you to this, of what use was the rule?

I wont be surprised in the least if Pace and Fox deal Cutler on draft day. They have purged the Bears of all the other bad apples and Jay certainly is in that group.

Bears are in rebuilding mode for the next 3 years......they need to focus in these 3 years who will be there to take the next step forworward....