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[size=44]Will Marc Trestman be Jay Cutler's latest victim?[/size]
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Bears quarterback Jay Cutler is congratulated by coach Marc Trestman. (Chris Sweda, Chicago Tribune)
Seeing Mike Tice on Falcons staff reminder what can happen if Marc Trestman doesn't change Jay Cutler's ways.
How close is Marc Trestman to becoming another play-caller who couldn't get best out of Jay Cutler?
For old times' sake, if Falcons offensive line coach Mike Tice approaches Bears quarterback Jay Cutler to shake hands before Sunday's game at the Georgia Dome, Cutler might just turn and walk away.
That was Cutler's chilly reaction two years ago at Cowboys Stadium when Tice, then the Bears offensive coordinator, tried talking to him on the sideline. Everything's bigger in Texas and so was interpretation of their tiff. The dismissive exchange made headlines and revealed the dysfunction between the Bears' quarterback and the play-caller — the latest victim. As part of the purge when the Bears fired Lovie Smith in 2012, Tice lost his job after one challenging season with Cutler.
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Tice had replaced Mike Martz, who co-existed with Cutler for a season before the relationship became incompatible. Remember in January 2010 when Martz met Cutler in a Nashville restaurant and he had him at hello? After one blissful year together, their bro-mance fizzled in 2011 to the point microphones captured Cutler telling Martz things to do this newspaper can not publish.
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Ron Turner preceded Martz as Bears offensive coordinator and if Turner ever writes a memoir on his coaching career, rest assured his chapter on coaching Cutler in 2009 will be a doozy. Before Turner, Cutler played for the Broncos until they traded him because, well, he determined he couldn't play for new coach Josh McDaniels. McDaniels replaced Mike Shanahan, Cutler's first NFL coach who was fired after a late-season collapse in 2008. Imagine the photo of men wearing frowns and "I COACHED JAY CUTLER" T-shirts.
The point is, it's a bad week for the Bears to play a team that employs one of the coaches Cutler left in his wake. Given the regression of Cutler's play lately, seeing Tice on the opposite sideline only will serve as a reminder of how many coaches have tried and failed to coax Cutler to reach his considerable potential.
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The list is long and fairly distinguished. With the Bears' season on the brink this week, the inescapable question is whether Marc Trestman already is on his way to adding his name to it. Unless Trestman can reverse a disturbing trend that has resurfaced in two straight losses, the answer likely is yes. If 2014 keeps heading south for the Bears, that will become the city's next big football debate: How much longer for Trestman?
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Stop debating whether Cutler is or isn't elite and whether he is or isn't the right quarterback for the Bears. That's so 2013. Cutler might be hard for a city to hug, but he's the only quarterback you will have for awhile, Chicago. Every Sunday isn't a referendum on his status. The Bears made that clear by signing Cutler to a seven-year, $126.7 million contract. The fine print makes it more like a three-year commitment worth $54 million guaranteed. In January 2013, the Bears signed Trestman to a four-year deal believed to be worth $12 million.
So at the end of what could be a make-or-break 2015 season — the soonest the Bears conceivably would part with Cutler or Trestman — they will owe their quarterback $18 million and their coach $3 million. Do the math.
Exactly 21 regular-season games into Trestman's tenure, now would be a good time for everybody to start considering his job security. History says coaching Cutler suggests there never is a bad time to do so — not with a quarterback who has fallen out of love with so many play-callers. And calling plays and fixing Cutler remain Trestman's highest priorities.
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Photos of all the Bears' offensive and defensive touchdowns from this season.
Trestman didn't throw fourth-quarter interceptions that led to two avoidable losses but, again, he was hired primarily to ensure Cutler would eliminate those mistakes. It's not fair to hold that against Trestman but the NFL isn't always fair to head coaches. Cutler clinging to a maddening status quo — 12 touchdown passes, six interceptions — indicts Trestman too. Cutler's obvious maturation off the field hasn't translated into improved execution on it and nobody can answer why better than Trestman. So stop making easy assumptions and start asking harder questions, Coach.
Benching Cutler after his next costly interception makes no sense but neither does enabling the quarterback. Talk tougher. Coach harder. Demand more. Stop treating Cutler like he's Peyton Manning or Tom Brady and start coaching him like he's a middle-of-the-pack NFL quarterback who can't get out of his own way. Start game-planning similarly.
If Trestman publicly can call out Brandon Marshall for running the wrong route he can take a tougher tack with Cutler for throwing to the wrong spot. Instead, Trestman's post-interception explanations too often give Cutler every benefit of the doubt as if he is afraid to offend the quarterback, like an employee scared of critiquing his boss. Tice might disagree, but Cutler's not the boss of the Bears.
It's time Trestman reminds everybody who is before he finds his career headed to the same place so many others have gone after experiencing Cutler.
Alright now STOP THAT SHIT! The last thing we need is all the dolts out there who need other people to do their thinking for them in order to discover the truth (including Bears leadership) to figure things out. Let's stick with the party line. Jay Cuntler has a ROCKET for an arm and can zing those balls in there where no one else can--just an uber-talented young man who should be at the top of his game well into his 40's...
You see--it really isn't that difficult. It all pretty much comes down to this: There are winners in life and there are losers. Losers pretty much make sure they find a way to lose every joy to a tragedy. Cuntler is a loser. A physically-talented loser who teases you from time/time with his talent and thus fools those who lack the eyes to see--but a loser nonetheless...
Trestman was doomed to failure from the start simply because he hitched his wagon to a loser. It was clear to me from the moment I first saw Trestman overtly coddling Cuntler on the sidelines that these would continue to be salad days in the Pack/Bear rivalry--because the loser had prevailed before the race was ever run... Get the fire extinguishers ready--because there is a southbound train railing to a wreck...
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Bears quarterback Jay Cutler is congratulated by coach Marc Trestman. (Chris Sweda, Chicago Tribune)
Seeing Mike Tice on Falcons staff reminder what can happen if Marc Trestman doesn't change Jay Cutler's ways.
How close is Marc Trestman to becoming another play-caller who couldn't get best out of Jay Cutler?
For old times' sake, if Falcons offensive line coach Mike Tice approaches Bears quarterback Jay Cutler to shake hands before Sunday's game at the Georgia Dome, Cutler might just turn and walk away.
That was Cutler's chilly reaction two years ago at Cowboys Stadium when Tice, then the Bears offensive coordinator, tried talking to him on the sideline. Everything's bigger in Texas and so was interpretation of their tiff. The dismissive exchange made headlines and revealed the dysfunction between the Bears' quarterback and the play-caller — the latest victim. As part of the purge when the Bears fired Lovie Smith in 2012, Tice lost his job after one challenging season with Cutler.
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Tice had replaced Mike Martz, who co-existed with Cutler for a season before the relationship became incompatible. Remember in January 2010 when Martz met Cutler in a Nashville restaurant and he had him at hello? After one blissful year together, their bro-mance fizzled in 2011 to the point microphones captured Cutler telling Martz things to do this newspaper can not publish.
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Ron Turner preceded Martz as Bears offensive coordinator and if Turner ever writes a memoir on his coaching career, rest assured his chapter on coaching Cutler in 2009 will be a doozy. Before Turner, Cutler played for the Broncos until they traded him because, well, he determined he couldn't play for new coach Josh McDaniels. McDaniels replaced Mike Shanahan, Cutler's first NFL coach who was fired after a late-season collapse in 2008. Imagine the photo of men wearing frowns and "I COACHED JAY CUTLER" T-shirts.
The point is, it's a bad week for the Bears to play a team that employs one of the coaches Cutler left in his wake. Given the regression of Cutler's play lately, seeing Tice on the opposite sideline only will serve as a reminder of how many coaches have tried and failed to coax Cutler to reach his considerable potential.
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The list is long and fairly distinguished. With the Bears' season on the brink this week, the inescapable question is whether Marc Trestman already is on his way to adding his name to it. Unless Trestman can reverse a disturbing trend that has resurfaced in two straight losses, the answer likely is yes. If 2014 keeps heading south for the Bears, that will become the city's next big football debate: How much longer for Trestman?
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- @OakLawnBill No, past QBs have nothing to do with anything. But if you're going to throw away drafts picks and $50,000,000, you might as well get a good QB out of it, the Bears unfortunately didn't.
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Stop debating whether Cutler is or isn't elite and whether he is or isn't the right quarterback for the Bears. That's so 2013. Cutler might be hard for a city to hug, but he's the only quarterback you will have for awhile, Chicago. Every Sunday isn't a referendum on his status. The Bears made that clear by signing Cutler to a seven-year, $126.7 million contract. The fine print makes it more like a three-year commitment worth $54 million guaranteed. In January 2013, the Bears signed Trestman to a four-year deal believed to be worth $12 million.
So at the end of what could be a make-or-break 2015 season — the soonest the Bears conceivably would part with Cutler or Trestman — they will owe their quarterback $18 million and their coach $3 million. Do the math.
Exactly 21 regular-season games into Trestman's tenure, now would be a good time for everybody to start considering his job security. History says coaching Cutler suggests there never is a bad time to do so — not with a quarterback who has fallen out of love with so many play-callers. And calling plays and fixing Cutler remain Trestman's highest priorities.
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Photos of all the Bears' offensive and defensive touchdowns from this season.
Trestman didn't throw fourth-quarter interceptions that led to two avoidable losses but, again, he was hired primarily to ensure Cutler would eliminate those mistakes. It's not fair to hold that against Trestman but the NFL isn't always fair to head coaches. Cutler clinging to a maddening status quo — 12 touchdown passes, six interceptions — indicts Trestman too. Cutler's obvious maturation off the field hasn't translated into improved execution on it and nobody can answer why better than Trestman. So stop making easy assumptions and start asking harder questions, Coach.
Benching Cutler after his next costly interception makes no sense but neither does enabling the quarterback. Talk tougher. Coach harder. Demand more. Stop treating Cutler like he's Peyton Manning or Tom Brady and start coaching him like he's a middle-of-the-pack NFL quarterback who can't get out of his own way. Start game-planning similarly.
If Trestman publicly can call out Brandon Marshall for running the wrong route he can take a tougher tack with Cutler for throwing to the wrong spot. Instead, Trestman's post-interception explanations too often give Cutler every benefit of the doubt as if he is afraid to offend the quarterback, like an employee scared of critiquing his boss. Tice might disagree, but Cutler's not the boss of the Bears.
It's time Trestman reminds everybody who is before he finds his career headed to the same place so many others have gone after experiencing Cutler.
Alright now STOP THAT SHIT! The last thing we need is all the dolts out there who need other people to do their thinking for them in order to discover the truth (including Bears leadership) to figure things out. Let's stick with the party line. Jay Cuntler has a ROCKET for an arm and can zing those balls in there where no one else can--just an uber-talented young man who should be at the top of his game well into his 40's...
You see--it really isn't that difficult. It all pretty much comes down to this: There are winners in life and there are losers. Losers pretty much make sure they find a way to lose every joy to a tragedy. Cuntler is a loser. A physically-talented loser who teases you from time/time with his talent and thus fools those who lack the eyes to see--but a loser nonetheless...
Trestman was doomed to failure from the start simply because he hitched his wagon to a loser. It was clear to me from the moment I first saw Trestman overtly coddling Cuntler on the sidelines that these would continue to be salad days in the Pack/Bear rivalry--because the loser had prevailed before the race was ever run... Get the fire extinguishers ready--because there is a southbound train railing to a wreck...
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