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That's the downside of being a quarterback. Right or wrong, the QB gets all the credit when things go well (think Trent Dilfer on the 2000 Ravens) or all the blame when things don't go well. Trent Dilfer did not get all the credit when things went well in Baltimore, in fact, he barely got any. I think Romo is a good example here, he gets fellated by the media when Dallas wins, and when they lose, he gets criticized up the wazzoo. On the other hand, somebody like Vinny Testeverde, who was okay as a Jet, but nothing special, is beloved there. Then, Chad Pennington was absolutely worshipped up until he started winning 10 games a year, then everybody nitpicked his shortcomings and eventually hated his guts. Very weird. I think fan bases, including the Bears, take circumstances into account with how they treat the QB. Rex Grossman won a lot in Chicago, but he was dismissed by most fans because he played far too poorly, far too often, even in wins. Kyle Orton was accepted, because he was pretty simple and less error prone. There wasn't much passion in either way with him, people who did not like him didn't hate him like they hated Grossman, and people who liked him didn't like them as much as those who likely Grossman. Cutler will be fine in Chicago as long as he plays well personally. There will be fans that will complain no matter what. There will be those who will want him dead if he fails to win a SB. But Cutler is probably going to play fairly well. If the team fails it will be because the defense failed to slow the decline and the WR were non existent. He won't get unfairly blamed for losses, unless he himself plays poorly. I think you're giving the rabble of Bear fans too much credit. Most of them don't apply the logic that you do.

Yeah, it seemed that way.

The thing about Chicago though, if the Bears don't win the fans will blame it on Cutler whether it is justified or not. If Cutler doesn't win in Chicago, he will be booed out of town, and it will be considered a massive bust acquisition -- regardless of the real reasons.

Nice.

I wouldn't exactly call a .896 OPS with RISP "sucking" Looks to me more like he's been walking with RISP, and with the score close. Which makes sense, especially when you look at the hitters that are typically after him these days.

Yeah, hehe.

berrian had maybe one of the most clutch catches in bears history in that game. The one diving out of bounds in the endzone to tie the game...yeah. I miss Berrian. I'm still upset that we let him go. I'm most upset that we couldn't engineer the situation to make sure he didn't wind up in the NFC North.

Heck, I always thought everyone in the organization got some sort of ring or something, right down to the janitors.

That's it, Lakers up 2-0 for sure.

Orlando doesn't seem to understand the concept of some passes being more risky than others.

Reddick's best days were at Duke. You'll never get an easier look than that.

That was nice, but Howard vs. Kobe down low is a mismatch.

Howard getting stripped too much down low.

Apparently a whale doing jumps in the ocean equals good life insurance.

Unbelievable, how can he miss that.

Hehe, the Howard wall had something to do with that though.

Wow, perfectly set up for Kobe winning shot.

They should just wrap chicken wire around their bodies so the ref doesn't see any arms moving near Kobe.

Haha, oh come on.

Seriously. How many times can you watch someone fall off a contraption into a pool and still be entertained? For me it's somewhere around 1 or 2.

Yeah, it sure seems that way. I imagine that's how lots of people felt about Jordan. That one though, on the shot block, that's just ridiculous to call a foul on that. That's as clean a block as you're going to see. The contact that happened on that play happens every possession in the NBA.

If that's a foul, then everything is a foul.

Sometimes Orlando makes the dumbest passes imaginable.

Haha Jack is going bat [expletive].

Eh. Put Troy Aikman on the '08 Lions for 10 years and let's see how his numbers would change. Sometimes I wish we could go through with a hypothetical like that. As it is, most people accept that Archie's numbers would have looked much, much better on a team that had any kind of competence.