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Belichick released a hometown hero QB as his skills were declining, turning an entire city against him, even though it was likely the correct decision.
McDaniels traded away a young franchise-quality QB and a workhorse RB and replaced them with Alphonso Smith and Laurence Maroney, then traded away more picks for the right to choose a TE conversion project in the first round.
Let's try to keep in mind how unique of a person Belichick is.
There aren't many people who can handle all of the different aspects of running an organization the way he does. Even the jobs that are delegated to others, he understands completely and could handle them himself if he wanted to. I doubt there are many people, even in other lines of work, who can really say that.
McDaniels is a great offensive mind, but IMO that's all he's shown so far, and he doesn't come close to having the wealth of experiences Belichick did, even at McDaniels' age.
Could he one day run a successful NFL team? Maybe. But he has a long way to go, and I wouldn't insult Belichick's legacy by comparing the two of them, by any stretch of the imagination, just because they had a period of 'failure' after some success. Don't forget that Belichick's 'failure' had a lot to do with factors outside of his control.
No one seems to want to give McD credit for being right about Cutler.
Right about Cutler?
Cutler is a fantastic QB. It's not his fault the Bears gave him **** on a stick to work with.
And it doesn't matter why he added Maroney. Find me one person in the NFL (besides his brother Ben) who thinks Maroney was worth a 4th round pick.
Right about Cutler?
Cutler is a fantastic QB. It's not his fault the Bears gave him **** on a stick to work with.
And it doesn't matter why he added Maroney. Find me one person in the NFL (besides his brother Ben) who thinks Maroney was worth a 4th round pick.
Cutler is not a fantastic QB. He is a dumber version of Drew Bledsoe or actually far worse version of Brett Favre since he is more mobile. He is Bledsoe Lite. Bledsoe was mostly an above average QB with one great year.
Cutler at his best is above average who could make some ridiculously stupid decisions. Even in his Broncos days, he never had a QB rating over 88.5.
I agree, they were doomed when Cutler went down. They could of survived losing Forte IMO, but not Cutler and the Biggest thing holding Cutler back is Mike Martz, he wants the home run ball every down, he should of been the HC for Al Davis 10 years ago.Gonna have to agree to disagree.
He was playing behind a terrible O-line with mediocre receivers (outside of Forte) this season, and after a rough start, was making excellent plays and showing remarkable toughness. Anyone who watched the games he played in could see that.
All you have to do is look at what happened to the Bears season once Cutler and Forte went down. The guy can play, period.
Gonna have to agree to disagree.
He was playing behind a terrible O-line with mediocre receivers (outside of Forte) this season, and after a rough start, was making excellent plays and showing remarkable toughness. Anyone who watched the games he played in could see that.
All you have to do is look at what happened to the Bears season once Cutler and Forte went down. The guy can play, period.
When your entire backfield is injured and you can get a guy who knows your system, a 4th is reasonable.
I think if supports the opinion that he was surronded by better talent in Denver like, he hasn't had anything close to Brandon Marshal in Chicago, also as previously mentioned, Chicago's OLINE can't protect him at all, part of that is the idiotic scheme Martz implemented.I think Cutler is the classic looks good, compiles numbers, but never makes the plays to win guy.
63/49 TD/Int ratio since going to Chicago (after 54/37 in Denver) certainly supports the opinion that Denver was smart to move on.
I think Cutler is the classic looks good, compiles numbers, but never makes the plays to win guy.
63/49 TD/Int ratio since going to Chicago (after 54/37 in Denver) certainly supports the opinion that Denver was smart to move on.
As someone I respect greatly once said, stats are for losers.
I'd wager my life savings that there isn't a personnel man in the NFL who would take any QB on the Chiefs or Broncos roster over Jay Cutler right now.
I don't think anyone has even seen what Cutler could do behind a half-decent O-line yet, not to mention a half-decent core of pass catchers.
I mean, really, Devin Hester, Roy Williams, Johnny Knox, and Earl Bennett?
Really?