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apologize for comparing your golf game to Cutler's professional footballing before you apologize for the length of the post.

Football season is on the verge of being over, but they are still playing games, including one very early in the morning. NFL Lines For Week 8 - NFL Football Line Week Eight NFL Line 10/23 - 10/27, 2014 Date & Time Favorite Line Underdog Total 10/23 8:25 ET At Denver -7.5 San Diego 51 10/26 9:30 AM Detroit -4 Atlanta (At London) 47 10/26 1:00 ET At Tampa Bay -2.5 Minnesota 42.5 10/26 1:00 ET At New England -6.5 Chicago 50 10/26 1:00 ET At Kansas City -6.5 St. Louis 43.5 10/26 1:00 ET Seattle -4.5 At Carolina 44.5 10/26 1:00 ET At NY Jets -3 Buffalo 41 10/26 1:00 ET Miami -4.5 At Jacksonville 43 10/26 1:00 ET Houston -1 At Tennessee 43.5 10/26 1:00 ET At Cincinnati -1.5 Baltimore 46 10/26 4:05 ET At Arizona -2.5 Philadelphia 48 10/26 4:25 ET Indianapolis -3 At Pittsburgh 48.5 10/26 4:25 ET At Cleveland -7 Oakland 43.5 10/26 8:30 ET At New Orleans -1.5 Green Bay 54.5 Monday Night Football Line 10/27 8:30 ET At Dallas -9.5 Washington 50

Fair. For this year, though, he is taking up a TON of their cap room--by design. His original number was a bit lower, but got bumped up when they signed other free agents to longer term deals. Yes, a lot of cap space this year, by design. But that doesn't really have anything to do with anything. It didn't prevent them from getting somebody they wanted. It didn't force them to cut somebody they wanted. He didn't hold out looking for the top dollars. There's no point in holding his contract against him at all right now. He had a shitty game. Focus on that if you want to criticize Cutler.

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This. 100% This. At what point do you join the loud chorus of people who have given up on Cutler? Just curious. Obviously from a national perspective, pretty much everyone already has. I think this is the first year that locally I've seen the beat reporters and the radio guys starting to dump on him and think of him as a wildly erratic and inconsistent starter. Depends on the tipping point.

I'd rather have a veteran laden team that sucks than a young team that sucks, because at least a veteran team that sucks could theoretically improve with an influx of young talent. If you're young and you suck that suggests you suck at finding young talent and there is no fix for that.

It sucks to be locked in to Cutler for another 2 seasons. I think this team is teetering on the brink of 'full rebuild' mode. Just too many holes and too many 30+ year olds. I go between agreeing with this and not agreeing with it. I don't think you ever need to rebuild in the NFL if you have a base of talent, stability at QB and at least an average drafting GM. I guess up for debate is how many of those the Bears have. An NFL rebuild is essentially getting a new GM and giving him a year or 2 to make the team much better.

If I had to guess, this cancellation is more about looking like HE IS FOCUSED SOLELY ON THE NEXT GAME than about avoiding questions. Eh a two hour radio show or whatever wouldn't affect his game prep unless it was a short week. The BM theory would be stronger, but either way it doesn't matter. Or maybe Trestman asked him to cancel. Still, doesn't matter. I'm talking about perception not the actual effect.

it's a [expletive] sports talk radio show. nothing on a sports talk radio show matters

If I had to guess, this cancellation is more about looking like HE IS FOCUSED SOLELY ON THE NEXT GAME than about avoiding questions.

If you think this isn't bitching out, I don't know what to tell you. There's a reason why this guy hasn't been more successful and this is part of it. I tried to look past it and have been a Cutler fanboy for years blaming the offensive line, poor receivers, incompetent offensive coaching, but when stuff starts to go bad, you finally start to see stuff that others (national media, former teammates, anonymous sources) have seen before. It really stinks seeing one of your favorite Bears of all time become "who they thought he was". I really hope there's a good reason for him not to show up, and even if there's not, I'm sure the Bears spin control will come up with something (fake injury treatment or something) to make him look good. And, this year's performance doesn't mean the guy can't turn it around and he still has the talent to be a top 10 or Super Bowl winning QB, but he's in his 10th year and it's hard to see that happening, which sucks. Not a fan of the underlying misogyny of the phrase "bitching out". But I will just say it's a fairly common occurrence for guys with these local media relationships to cancel them for reasons other than a dying child and I am pretty sure the only people who care about that are the hosts themselves and psychopaths.

his children better be really sick, hopefully his wife too, and maybe mom.

Rich Campbell ‏@Rich_Campbell · 52s52 seconds ago .@ESPN1000 Program Director Adam Delevitt said Bears QB Jay Cutler gave no reason for cancelling his regularly scheduled appearance today. Rich Campbell ‏@Rich_Campbell · 2m2 minutes ago Bears QB Jay Cutler this morning informed @ESPN1000 he would not appear on his reguarly scheduled radio show today at 2 p.m.

Somebody stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Greene is such a disappointment. Athletically he has everything he needs. Apparently its intellect that he is lacking. A 4th round pick out of Rutgers, he's not that much of a disappointment.

no, but it stopped being funny. or never really was. Poverty is never funny.

What the heck is fun about it? When I think homers I think Yankees and White Sox broadcasts and they are awful. There's nothing fun about an announcer that is detached from reality and incapable of providing rational and accurate descriptions of play.

Yes, he played much less than he had in previous games and had a "ask Tucker" kind of quote when asked about it.

Yeah, Blackhawks were the last team to win at Soldier. That was the Dolphins.

The NHL has a Russia problem.

Yeah, quintessential Bears have no chance game.

That's just Khaseem Greene turning his back despite being in zone. Horrible.

Yep, as long as the offense was good you could ignore his other faults. But when his area of expertise is what's leading to the losses, it is a problem. Yep, that's what I've been saying for a few weeks. If this team isn't scoring 28 ppg like it was last year, what's Trestman's value to this team? He's not a motivator like Rex Ryan. He's not a disciplinarian like Coughlin or someone. He's not a player's coach like Lovie was. He's not strong in-game or as a leader like a Belichick. His value is in getting this offense to score points and win games. They averaged 7 points per quarter last year, they've been held to 7 or fewer points in a half in 5 of the 7 games this year. It's going to be interesting to see what happens if this year continues like this. I've been thinking about it since yesterday, and you kinda have to fire Trestman don't you? The offense is all under contract for next year. You can't blame it on Cutler and toss him aside (which is why I would have just franchised him). You aren't going to be able to trade Marshall, who looks like he might be a problem if this team doesn't do anything significant on the field. All you can do is blame Tucker and retool the defense again. And if they keep playing average-ish, I don't think there's enough you can possibly do on that side of the ball to combat the fact that the offense isn't as advertised. I think the bold move would be to clean house and hire a new GM/football ops guy who can go hire his own head coach in year 1 and stop messing around with all the "work with the previous guy to see if they can make the best of it" theory. If Emery's job is secure, it would be pretty ballsy of him to move on already from Trestman. I wouldn't complain. That would cement Cutler's status as a coach killer. At this point though, I am guessing they let Cutler/Trestman play out their contracts, or at least the majority of them and Emery probably gets an opportunity to hire another coach starting in 2016 who can go after his own QB after a presumably disastrous 2015.

To be clear, I am not just implying it was something other than the fact it was an old injured d. I am saying that it was more than just old and injured. I think the coaching situation played a very clear role in the decline of the d.