Under Adam Gase, his fifth offensive coordinator in seven seasons as a Chicago Bear, Jay Cutler is having a breakthrough at age 32, and having it in precisely the area of his game that has been his greatest career shortcoming.
Gase’s primary mission statement going into the season was to reduce the interceptions and other turnovers that had become Cutler’s signature. After an interception-free game against the Minnesota Vikings,
Cutler’s interception percentage stands at 1.9, lowest of his career and among the rarified air of the NFL’s top 10 with 200 or more pass attempts.
Cutler, whose interceptions were noticeably absent even through training camp, has a current stretch of 51 pass attempts without an interception, going back to the Bears’ first possession of the third quarter of the Detroit game.