Week 11: Bears at Giants on Fox at noon

[mul21]

Cutler torn labrum.

 

Ouch. With the way he plays and relies on mobility and throwing at weird angles, that may be essentially a career ender for him.

FWIW it sounds like he played through it on Sunday and he made a few very strong throws on that final drive.

 

Not that that necessarily says anything about the long term impact of the injury.

 

Yeah, you can certainly do that before it's repaired (I did for quite a while). It becomes a pain tolerance and doing more damage thing at that point. Once it's fixed, you're fighting against the flexibility recovery that's needed to throw with the velocity he's accustomed to. The surgery has come a long way since I had it done, but it's still not a lock he can throw as well as before he hurt it (or well enough to function the way he does as a mobile QB).

[JonJayCutler]

I have a feeling he's going to need surgery on that thumb again too. He's going to be even more of a question mark going into 2017 than he already is. Might be forced to take a backup job somewhere.

[David]

Unless he actually physically can't play, there aren't 32 teams who Jay Cutler couldn't start for.