Nas wrote:
I think it's football and business dumb to trade a young pro bowl QB you just made a huge investment in after 1 bad season and take pennies on the dollar. All of this for the right to have the same hole.
I think the Bear organization has been football and business dumb since the team parted ways with Jim Finks. What I also wrote is predicated on my (perhaps mistaken) belief that the Bears didn't pay much in the way of a big signing bonus to Cutler, just later day guaranteed $$. If so, I say cut your (potential) losses & start over...if a top down shakeup were possible. This team does nothing well & Cutler doesn't seem like the kind of player to build around &/or struggle through growing pains with. Hit the reset button.
As for the young "pro bowl" QB, he's making mistakes that Aikmann didn't make in his first few years in Dallas, that Plunkett didn't make in his stint in New England, nor even Steve Young in Tampa. His pro bowl appearance is seemingly more a factor of established pros not wanting to play in the game and his gaudy numbers overshadowing glaring deficiencies in much of his game. He was a pro-bowler in the much the same way a Washington National becomes an all star. By rule/default.
He's never won, he's never seemingly been much of a team leader & I predict with his pre-existing health conditions & the beating he has taken this year, next year may be worse. Especially given that I don't see a house cleaning/rebuilding coming for more than Turner(if that) to help him/anyone. If the Bears can (will) keep him, hopefully I'm wrong.