Morning After Thoughts - Week 1

Mitch is average. To this point in his career he's been exactly average.

And we need and want him to be much better than average. That's the problem.

 

Being the eternal optimist (You guys wouldn't get it, I'm Canadian and it's what we do) I think/believe that things are going to turn around.

Have I ever been wrong before?

 

Tramon Williams said, in comments that echo Charles Woodson on Cutler, that they wanted Mitch to be a QB. That's damning. Williams acknowledged the Bears have weapons all over the offense but then said if they could make Mitch be a QB, they'd be fine. He's exactly right.

It's like we can't get out of the Good Rex/Bad Rex, Good Jay/Bad Jay, Good Mitch/Bad Mitch cycle. Mitch has either been really good (always against shitty teams in less important games) or really bad (always against good teams in big games).

His numbers average out to being "average". But I'd take consistently average play from week to week rather than this up and down crap we've seen for the last 10-15 years at QB. If Mitch is indeed average, there's no reason we shouldn't make the playoffs with the defense. Right now I doubt he can be consistently average.

Edit: Should clarify that being average is probably not good enough to win the Super Bowl, but it is good enough to make the playoffs. But I don't even think he can do that.

 

I think most average QBs struggle to maintain their average play. And that's why they are average because they have to put forth maximum effort just to be average.

I think Mitch has the ability to be better than that. But his progress is showing to be slower than the Bears need it to be.

I have almost zero hope for next Sunday right now. Denver has a really good defense....Fangio knows Mitch and knows how to hurt the Bears offense....and the Broncos haven't lost at home in September in like 7 years or something sick.

 

As I was reading this I thought what? lol yeah if you notice it's starting to get getting crowded in here. He tunnels far too often to be the guy they expected when they drafted him, and this game was no exception. Can he be a winning QB? Yes, he can with the benefit of a great defense, but he will never be the guy that can lift the team when the defense is playing poorly. Next...

 

Yep.

The "O" means option....

If you're going to run, line up a fucking TE or FB and run the fucking ball. Don't get cute and line a WR up in the backfield and ask him to run in the A gap.

And if I was a QB who hasn't thrown in 9 months, I might of "opted" to throw.

With that, if Nagy said this, he just threw his QB under a bus. That is not good.

 

Mitch Cutler....

 

Mongo you just dared to speak the unspeakable.