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Cutler Cuts Loose For 5 INT Night Bears Lose 10-6
Written by Brett Solesky   
Friday, 13 November 2009 01:23
Matt ForteAnother maddening season took another turn for the worse and franchise QB pick up Jay Cutler threw five interceptions on the night in a 10-6 ugly loss to the San Francisco 49ers on the road.  The Bears would have won this game had Cutler not thrown two of his interceptions in the red zone there by taking a minimum of six points off the board. 

Yes there were at least two INTs weren't totally Jay Cutler's fault, Devin Hester running into the referee, and slipping to the ground on one of his routes, but the three others were throws into coverage that should not have been made.  Plus Cutler made an estimated four other throws that could have just as easily been picked off in the game. 

The stat that causes the biggest anger or at least is should among the fans of the Meerkats of the Midway, in Cutler's last 13 games he has thrown a total of eight interceptions in the red-zone. 

QB Jay CutlerYes the Bears were unable to run the ball very well, yes you'd like to see more protection for Cutler from the offensive line and more consistency out of the defense.  All those are very valid points and points that I have covered ad nauseum on this blog.  But the rate at which Jay Cutler is throwing INTS on the year is not longer excusable and no longer something you can simply gloss over for a player that was brought in here to no longer have these kind of performances in this city. 

Bears fans have suffered enough to see good efforts by a defense that has had their backs against the wall for two of the last three weeks go to waste.  In fact for all of the blame and fury aimed at the defense, three of the games this season the Bears have played defense good enough to win, and instead they have lost.  The Green Bay game, defense played well enough to win, Atlanta game, and now the San Francisco game all games the defense showed up and gave a good effort.  Three games in which Cutler has totaled 12 INTs for one reason or another, a stat that is plain inexcusable. 

Jay Cutler at one point had a record of 13-1 as a starter when the defense he played with gave up less than 21-points.  His record as the Bears' QB when the defense gives up less than 21 points is 3-3 and it's going to cost the Bears a playoff berth this season. 

The problems this Bears team face are all a combination of problems that all point in one simple direction, that of the head coach.  Lovie Smith is the head coach, and it's his job to get the most out of both the offense and defense on a weekly basis.  The Bears have yet to put together a complete game on both offense and defense this season.  They can never get consistent play for a full 60-minutes from both units.  If the offense struggles, then the defense plays great, if the defense struggles then the offense plays great or in the case in the game against the Bengals, neither unit played worth a damn. 

Right now Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears are the laughing stock of the NFL, people are laughing one week because Kyle Orton played well enough last year for the Bears to win games.  So the Bears ignored their defense and brought in the savior Jay Cutler who was going to help the franchise turn the corner.  But then they are laughing twice as hard when you look at Cutler's stat sheet and see 17 INTs through eight games on the season. 

Too many people offered up opinions of Cutler that were too negative that they were simply dismissed as biased against the Bears or biased against Cutler himself.  ESPN's NFL analysis crew came out with talk about Cutler's decision making ability.  Mel Kiper Jr had one famous quote where he stated something along the lines of "of course Jay Cutler has a strong arm, my gramma can see that he has a strong arm, but his decision making process is what is going to get him into trouble."  Laughed off at the time, it's hard not to give credit to those words now given what we have seen from Cutler and his decision making abilities of late. 

Make no mistake about it, I'm not anti Jay Cutler I'm not berating the trade for him or his talents and I'm not saying the Bears would be better off without him.  I am however stating that now nine games into the season, the honeymoon is over, the luster has worn off and Jay Cutler should no longer be immune from criticism.  At some point, someone needs to make sure that Cutler is held accountable for his poor decision making, especially when it results in sure fire points off the board. 

The question is who on the Bears' staff is going to  hold Cutler accountable for these poor choices when it seems that Cutler himself isn't truly holding himself accountable for these horrible decisions.
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