Jay Cutler lacks poise, is inconsistent, needs to be accountable, Angelo says

tardigrade said:

http://chicago.suntimes.com/bears-f...se-inconsistent-needs-accountable-angelo-says

WRITTEN BY RICK MORRISSEY POSTED: 08/19/2015, 03:20PM

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Jerry Angelo deserves some credit. Too many NFL personnel people are reluctant to fully admit mistakes, even years after their blunders.

Not so with Angelo, the former Bears general manager who traded Kyle Orton, two first-round draft picks and a third-round choice to Denver for Jay Cutler in 2009.

Angelo ranks Cutler 21st among NFL quarterbacks in garysheltonsports.com. Here’s what he has to say about Jay the Coach and GM Slayer:

“Has the physical tools, but inconsistent, particularly in the clutch, mostly due to a lack of poise. He’s not comfortable reading defenses and consequently locks on to a favorite or predetermined target that may or may not be the right choice. The less he’s asked to see the better he is. A better half-field general than a full-field one. This will be his make-or-break year. Needs to be his biggest critic and hold himself accountable.’’

These are some of the same things we’ve been saying about Cutler since Angelo traded for him. Inconsistent? Check. Locks on to a favorite target? Hello, Brandon Marshall. Needs to hold himself accountable? Yes, please.

The Bears might be in a different place today if Angelo hadn’t decided Cutler was an elite quarterback six years ago. And they’d be in a better place if Angelo’s replacement, Phil Emery, hadn’t given Cutler a seven-year, $126 million contract extension, with $54 million guaranteed.

But it’s nice to know that somebody deeply involved in this mess is saying that our eyes haven’t been deceiving us all these years.

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Grimson said:

If Jay had #24 KJ Barner in the backfield it would prevent other defenses from blitzing so much due to the hole-busting ability of his "strong back" play style.

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Aquineas said:

Fuck Angelo, he's in a way responsible for ruining any chance for developing Cutler. I'm not saying Cutler doesn't have his flaws and doesn't carry his own responsibility, because obviously he does. But with the hits he took with that piss-poor offensive line, Angelo should be in jail.

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Colonel_Buendia said:

I don't blame Angelo for making the trade. Cutler was young, had the potential to grow, and all the tools to be elite. Orton didn't have the same ceiling, and you don't often get a shot at landing somebody with Cutler's potential. It didn't turn out the way we wanted, and that's a bitter pill to swallow. But in that situation I would have made the trade too, every time.

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cjswan232482 said:

Angelo brought himself another 3 years with the Cutler trade. And no QB was going to make Devin Hester a no 1 receiver.

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iueyedoc said:

Yeah but as Aquineas said why bring someone in with Michael Angelo skills and give him crayons and broken paint brushes to work with. Cutler may or may not have ever been a great long term QB, but when your GM says the QB makes the receiver and gives him, Hester as a #1 and Webb to protect your blind side... Holy Fuck.

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botfly10 said:

Yeah, but I think there is a bit more truth to that statement by JA then we give him credit for. A QB can do a lot to make WRs and even OL look better than they are.

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