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They absolutely were screwed on the Cutler contract because I agree that they had no choice. They weren't going to get anyone else, and to keep Cutler, they had to pay him as if he were great.It's not all that different from when the Twins had to pay to keep Mauer. He had all the leverage -- with the additional leverage of coming off an outstanding season and being a hometown kid -- and now the Twins are stuck giving a huge chunk of their payroll to an injury-prone, singles-hitting first baseman who doesn't drive in runs.
You are unbelievable. Completely insufferable. I have never disliked someone so much for someone I have never met.
nice avatar Mr. Positive
The Twins are like 24th in payroll.Mauer and his contract are the least of their problems.Football is salary capped, so in theory, Jay's contract could be a problem... but until they reach the cap or miss on a player because of the cap, then Jay's contract isn't really a problem.
Again, I ask you, name a better available QB. In the day and age in the NFL you have to give that kind of contract.
Saw that he's the league's highest paid player this year.Speaking of contracts...wish the Packers would've been able to lock down Cobb over the offseason, understand the hesitation at the time on both sides. Can we afford him this offseason?
Hoyer was available.Jay's suckability rating last night was as high as I've ever seen it. Not to mention he looked even more disinterested than usual. Besides his 3 turnovers, he also threw an interception to House who dropped it and put one right in Sam Shields hands for a 99 yard TD, which he let go right through his hands.
They will re-sign Cobb. Thompson does not hesitate to pay market value for his star players. They have plenty of salary cap room.
The sack-strip was on Cutler but his 2 INTs were flukish tips. The pass that Shields dropped was a 4th down, desperation pass. If Bennett catches the ball on the play before it, the Bears have a TD there. Was that drop Cutler's fault too? Don't get me wrong, Cutler didn't play well but the Bears have much, much bigger problems than their QB. Either you're just trolling or you're ignorant.
The Bears are currently $2-3M under the cap and they have a decent amount coming off the books after the season. Cutler is overpaid, no doubt, but his contract isn't crippling the team from a cap standpoint and they can get out of the deal after the 2016 season. All things considered, it's really not as awful a contract as many people make it out to be.
The Twins are like 24th in payroll.Mauer and his contract are the least of their problems.
I hope this avatar is more acceptable for you.
my comment was about the irony of your putdown of the poster you responded too - hardly positive
I understood that but it really gets annoying when people find satisfaction of bashing another team (more specifically player) more then they comment on their own team.
Yawn. More excuses for Jay.The Bears certainly have quite a few issues. But in the NFL, if you have a really good quarterback you can make up for a lot of those issues. The Bears don't have that, and Jay only adds to the issues rather than covering them up. Make excuses for Jay's turnovers all you want, it's never on him and somehow he just gets fluke after fluke going against him, but yet again Jay has more turnovers (between fumbles and interceptions) than he has touchdowns (between rushing and passing touchdowns) this season. The defense is absolutely, completely awful. But that doesn't change the fact that despite having all these weapons to go to the Bears' season high point total is 28 points and they have scored 20 or fewer points in 4 or their 9 games this season. At some point you have to look and say, "You know what? Other quarterbacks in the NFL don't turn the ball over like Jay does. It can't just be a coincidence. You cannot turn the ball over more than you get the ball in the end zone as a quarterback." At least that's what I'd be saying if Rodgers was turning it over more than he's getting it in the end zone.
First of all, Cutler has 19 TDs (18 pass, 1 rush) and 15 TOs (10 INT, 5 fumbles lost). Those are obvious awful numbers but, even so, 19 > 15. Ignorant, blindly-hating fans are going to blame Jay no matter what. He's the scapegoat and it's easy to pile on him. As I stated previously, Cutler didn't play well last night. No one on the Bears did. That said, when the D can't stop anybody or even even figure out what coverage they're supposed to be in while the offense is painfully predictable, and DBs know exactly what routes are being run, there's not much that a QB can do. Even St. Aaron would struggle in the offense that the Bears are currently running. That said, Cutler does force throws, make bad reads, hold the ball too long in the pocket and too often plays dumb, careless football. Combine that with a horrible scheme and this Bears' team is the result.It's amazing that whenever someone makes a comment about Cutler that isn't completely, overwhelmingly negative, the football stupids come out in force.
When a small-market team allocates 20-25% of its payroll to a first baseman who hits like Doug Mientkiewicz, it is a problem.But again, the Twins really had no choice. At the time they gave Mauer that contract, he was the best hitting catcher in baseball, coming off the best season of a career that was clearly on the upswing. They were winning, they had a new ballpark opening and he was the hometown guy. I'm not criticizing the decision to sign him because they had little choice.And that's the similarity to the Cutler contract. Obviously, almost everything else about them is apples-to-oranges -- including Mauer seemingly being a decent guy while Cutler is a pud.
I would argue that you are at the top of the list of football stupid and a myopic fan.
Huh?