Chicago Bears Week 5 Report Card: Grading Each Unit
Published by Timothy Hockemeyer on October 11, 2011
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Chicago Bears
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. So this team walks into Motor City and after a brutal game says to the media “Jay’s a big boy. He’ll be fine…”
Yep, that’s right. The Bears have officially become a joke. And the worst part is that the guys telling that joke don’t even get it.
If Lovie Smith thinks that Jay Cutler will be fine after he just spent 60 minutes being batted around like a beach ball at a lawn concert then either he is clueless or he thinks we are. In other words, he either gave us a glimpse into his own intelligence level or he insulted ours.
Jay Cutler will not be fine if this continues. As reported earlier today by ESPN’s Kevin Seifert, in Detroit Cutler was under more duress than any quarterback in any single game this year. By my own count from my notes on the game, Cutler was pressured 16 times, hit nine times and sacked three in 38 drop-backs. That is insane. And that doesn’t even include the two sacks Cutty took that were erased by a facemask penalty and a defensive holding penalty.
Cutler will not finish the season if this sort of brutal assault continues.
With that said, let’s get right into the grades for each unit.
