This.
It's pretty amusing to look back at old threads and see guys we've mentioned before as being stop gap guys to Cutler(Fitzpatrick, Palmer etc) go out and produce at Cutler's level for a fraction of the price of produce at near MVP levels for a discount compared to Cutler when they were laughed at during the time when we brought them up. For God sakes last year we had threads questioning if Cam Newton was better than Cutler. You look this year the QB leader board and you see asswipes like Tyrod Taylor, Matt Stafford, Alex Smith, Kirk Cousins, Josh McCown all out performing Cutler and Cutler barely outproducing young QB's like Mariota and Bridgewater or on par with the Brian Hoyer's of the world. Cutler's "best year" of his career was good for 17th in the NFL in passer rating. 17th. How would that be "tough" to move on from? Or "tough" to replace?
As recently as 2014 Cutler was barely out producing Mark Sanchez and Kyle Orton yet somehow we still have Bears fans hedging their bets that moving on from Cutler is in any real way "risky" or his production would be "difficult to replace". It's insane.
Haven't you guys noticed that you have already scored a near full victory on the annoying old Cutler debate?
Take a look around. Nobody here even tries to argue that Cutler is good anymore (bimbro doesn't count). I'm not kidding though. Nobody is even trying to argue he is actually good.
The whole conversation has changed. Now, the argument is over whether he is terrible or not. The people you see on here raging in defense of Cutler are really only yelling about how he isn't terrible. lol, how he doesn't completely suck. And how HOLY SHIT he might even be a little bit ABOVE AVERAGE! WOO! And holy fuck, thats good enough to win the SB!
None of which is to say that he is actually good at playing QB.
The "good enough to win the SB" line is especially dumb. Cause all its really saying is that you don't need a good QB to win the SB. Which in turn is equivalent to saying that Cutler isn't fucking good.