Because he knows he has to make a play for this crappy a55 team.

And… yes, Turner has to wake up and move him out of the pocket to take advantage of his strengths. But, then again… our coaches aren’t exactly quick studies.

2 – Hester slips and causes pick. He’s still a damn good receiver, it happens.
3 – Hester hits ref which is ABSOLUTELY the reason it is picked. Still a damn good WR.
4 – Blatant pass interference, would have been caught IMO.
5 – Cutler’s fault. It’s 2nd down, if there is nothing there then THROW IT AWAY!

The ungodly amount of penalties and the piss poor line protection were the death of this team in a game we should have EASILY WON. The defense played good football and quite possibly could have gone all night without giving up a TD had that long interception return not happened. I’m sick of the bubble screen crap, not because it’s always ineffective but because we find it necessary to use it much more that it can be useful or creative. We’re predictable.

I liked seeing what Shaffer could do, he played pretty well in place for Orlando even though I would have liked to see Omiyale playing in place of him, maybe we could see if the guy had some real worth at his natural position. It is getting apparent that Ron Turner is not suited to handle Jay’s style of ball. With a guy as erratic as Cutler, somebody has to utilize his strengths, settle him down and call the plays based on his strong suits. I like our WRs but we do need to get Jay a bigger target.

The press conferences were bullshit. I’m sick of hearing the bounce back crap that we hear every week. Jay needed to take so more responsibility in his words and Lovie is simply annoying and predictable. Somebody wake up and get rid of this clown and his cronies. 2006 was a long time ago and we’re not going to be getting back to that greatness until we get the right people for the job, and the right personnel with them.

with no true #1 receiver, a rookie, a second year decent WR, you are going to have problems. Especially factoring in the OL is providing no time to sit back and throw.

While 5 picks and season leading in picks is not OK. I still like Cutler and support his efforts this season. Many of those you have to look at in context (being behind and forced to throw or give up for the game)

Could anyone imagine a year ago if you were told. The Bears will run their main back 10 times max and he will have what ave of 50 yards per game? And throw 50+ times a game? No. So while it hurts, I still appreciate the upped level of passing Cutler has allowed. Heck with out it, we would be 3 and out every set.

I wont disagree with you on this post but as an outside observer watching your team in anticipation of our divisional tilts later this season….

the problem is cutler. His recievers arent doing their job but a great QB would make them better. Both in his passes but his leadership. Cutler has, seemingly, little to no leadership qualities. He throws a pick and adjusts his socks, goes to the sideline and does a combination of pouting and complaing and making excuses. A leader would go up to his receiver and do a combination of educating, communicating and encouraging.

I have yet to see a moment while watching your team play where cutler is on the sidelines doing those three things. In fact, multiple times during last nights game, they showed cutler on the sideline yelling at Greg Olson, bitching to a coach and doing a lot of sitting on the bench pouting. If he was a leader he would round up his recievers and get some encouragment and motivation going.

I dont think Cutler has any interest in being a true leader. He couldnt lead his High School, College or Broncos team to a whole heck of a lot. Waddya expect? I’m pretty sure Josh McDaniels saw that and that’s why he went around shopping Cutler and was happy to get rid of him.

considering this is cutler’s first year with these receivers, they’re still not comfortable with each other. While a couple of those picks were bad luck (hester slipping, pass interference, bumping into the ref), the receivers also showed good things this game.

We’re still in growing pains with Cutler and the offense. I don’t know why everyone expects Cutler to be awesome almost instantaneously. These things take time. Heck, look at Peyton Manning’s first two years. He wasn’t too good. It takes time to adjust.

That being said, the O-Line is still our weakest link.

PS I thought it was funny about the vikes fan calling out Cutler for not being a good leader when all Favre does on the sideline during games is stand by himself or talk to the QB coach.

I feel like you read my mind last night. I couldn’t agree with you more. Every time I see these WR’s line up, Hester, Bennett, and Knox, I just laugh. Add on top of that a running game that goes no where, o line that can’t block anyone and Kreutz snapping the ball to Cutler’s toe every play, they might as well have Cutler play blind folded.

Here’s the order I would rank them….

1. Management
2. O-Line
3. Cutler
4. WR’s

Cutler was just horrendous yesterday. He just made bad decisions with the ball. I don’t blame it all on Cutler though, as his O-line is constantly letting the pressure get to him and the inability for them to run block doesn’t help either. But superceding all of the people who are at fault is the management. So many of us were complaining for the last couple of years about how atrocious our o-line was. So what management does it pick up some old “veterans” to strengthen our line. I think we can see how well that has worked. Lovie Smith is also a problem. His inability to get his players prepared and ready to play has been simply bad. These players coming into a must win game showed no emotion/heart. Lovie has not instilled any discipline with these teams or past recent teams. Hell, we had more penalty yards(75) than rushing yards(43). That’s just atrocious.

but…if you consider Favre at the same point in his career (46 games played), he and Jay have almost identical numbers:

Jay:
68-54 TD/INT
11,377 yds

Brett:
70-51 TD/INT
10,412 yds

The difference is Brett was 26-19 through his first 4 seasons. Jay is 17-20.

Back when grossman actually had piss poor receivers everything was his fault no matter what. Now that we have a “name” qb nothing could ever possibly be his fault. Go take a look @ footballoutsiders wide receiver statistics and you’ll notice hester, knox and bennett are doing an exceptional job of catching the ball. This isn’t the line, the coordinators or the receivers fault. It is cutlers inability to make plays when they are inside the 20 and its his little pissy girl attitude he sports whenever things don’t go his way yet he shows no signs of wanting to improve. This team is a joke.

We haven’t been able to challenge defenses with the deep ball and stretch the field. That’s made it a lot easier for defenses to cover our receivers – because they’re basically defending a shorter field. They know they don’t have to respect the deep routes because the line can’t protect Cutler for more than about 2-3 seconds. And we aren’t calling a lot of deep routes because we know he’s got to get rid of it quickly.

He could have ran,(risky), he could have thrown it away, he could have thrown it to a Chicago Bear instead of a perfect pass to a 49’er.