As the Chicago Bears stare down their sights at the Miami Dolphins tonight for their first preseason game, QB Jay Cutler is in unfamiliar territory. In what will be his seventh season with the Bears, and after a turbulent 2014 campaign, Cutler has been flawless in practice thus far.
Camp surprise: Jay Cutler has yet to throw an interception in team drills http://t.co/YqKSjzFbTY
— Jeff Dickerson (@DickersonESPN) August 11, 2015
Does that mean anything in the grand scheme of things? Possibly, but Cutler himself isn’t buying into it.
“Camp is camp. We’re not getting hit. These aren’t live bullets. So we’ll see what happens when we start going,” Cutler
His flawless streak is nice, but we really cannot judge him until he is getting hit for real, and the game is played at full speed. We will not see full speed until the Bears open their season against the Green Bay Packers.
Cutler hasn’t impressed many in his games verse the Bears longest and most hated rival. Posting 19 career interceptions in his 10 games, while only throwing 13 touchdowns doesn’t get it done against Aaron Rodgers squad.
If that isn’t heartbreaking enough, Cutler has posted only one season in which he’s averaged less than an interception per game, his injury shortened 2011 year.
There is hope that running John Fox and Adam Gase’s offense, Cutler will be reigned in from his typical gunslinger ways which went overboard under Marc Trestman.
“(Cutler’s) worked with a couple different guys, the good thing is, he’s heard a few things that I say,” Gase said. “He’ll look at me and kind of, ‘That’s a little Martzist,’ right there.”
So far he seems to have controlled his appetite for destruction, will it continue? Unfortunately they Magic 8 Ball says “it is likely.”
