IRed by midseason?

TdogProspective Member

I'll be surprised if this approach with cutler doesn't land him on IR before mid-season if they actually follow thru with it...

http://profootballtalk.nbcspor...s-will-use-his-feet/

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New Bears quarterbacks coach Jeremy Bates has known Jay Cutler for years, and he says there’s a lot more to like about Cutler than his arm.

Bates, who was an offensive assistant in Denver during Cutler’s three seasons with the Broncos, told reporters on Sunday that one of the priorities in Chicago’s offense this season will be to take advantage of Cutler’s gifts as an athlete and make defenses account for the way Cutler can move.

“In my opinion, Jay is very athletic,” Bates said, via the Chicago Tribune. “He was a great shortstop in high school. If you go back and watch the Vanderbilt tape, he was running all around the field making plays. We’re going to use his feet. He’s athletic, he can throw on the run, he can see down the field on the run. We’re going to try to find everybody’s strengths and use them to our advantage.”

5/14/128:13 AM

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chickenboyTic Toc

IMO, by doing this they are actually trying to protect him more. I suspect they don't want to make him into some wildcat QB, just move him around and outside the pocket. Kinda like they do with the QB straight north of them.

5/14/128:18 AM

TdogProspective Member

IMO, Rodgers, like brent before him, has the uncanny feel for pocket presence. cutler... not so much. we'll see.

5/14/128:23 AM

Shoeless JoeMember

Vay-Jay-Jay disagrees.

5/14/128:25 AM

DeepChicagoDa' Bears

Bears fans have been screaming for roll outs the past several years.

5/14/129:21 AM

H5Keyboard Warrior, troll hunter

Moving him out of the pocket sounds good, but he still has to make the right read and get rid of the ball quickly. If he does not read and react correctly/quickly, he becomes a sitting duck out there for quick DE's and blitzing LB's or S's.

5/14/129:28 AM

DH13Member

All he's missing in that photo is a mumu.

5/14/129:56 AM

packerboiI lick rainbows

When you are rolling your QB out of the pocket and away from pressure, yes one way you can look at that is that you have an athletic QB and you want to use his talents to throw on the run.

Another way is realizing your OL sucks, can't protect the QB, and you're rolling him out to prevent him from getting ass planted.

Have to wonder if Bates is realizing what kind of OL he'll have in 2012 (including how well Carimi will do coming off injury) and so he's framing this "mobile" Cutler in a way that he doesn't have to admit he has an OL that can't allow Cutler to stay in the pocket.

5/14/1210:30 AM

Winnebago WarriorMember

Had Cutler not gotten hurt, I thought he was on his way to having a good season last year.

5/14/1210:31 AM

trumpMember

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Originally posted by packerboi:
When you are rolling your QB out of the pocket and away from pressure, yes one way you can look at that is that you have an athletic QB and you want to use his talents to throw on the run.

Another way is realizing your OL sucks, can't protect the QB, and you're rolling him out to prevent him from getting ass planted.

Have to wonder if Bates is realizing what kind of OL he'll have in 2012 (including how well Carimi will do coming off injury) and so he's framing this "mobile" Cutler in a way that he doesn't have to admit he has an OL that can't allow Cutler to stay in the pocket.

And a 3rd way to look at it ... the OCoord better not make it a tendency because even though Vajayjay has "an arm of a lifetime"

, DCoord's are gonna be all over that. Routes can be taken away and his choices become very limited side to side when you see the side he is moving to, MVick he is not.
Marshall may help here but Defense's lick chops when tendencies are viewed.

Sure ARod moves around, but its a tad more random than called rolls.

IMO, gonna be interesting to see how it unfolds.

5/14/1211:00 AM