The performance of Jay Cutler in the win over the Minnesota Vikings foreshadowed presenting the Bears with a problem — a problem the Bears and every other NFL organization would love to have:
The need to choose between good quarterbacks (emphasis on the “good” part). Maybe it will be “among” good quarterbacks, if the field expands in 2017 beyond two, to include Cutler, Brian Hoyer, Connor Shaw and a draft pick to be named later. Hoyer and Shaw will be coming off seasons ended by broken bones but had impressed within the organization before those injures.
In the meantime, regardless of the shape of the future, and he does have team-friendly salaries in the next several years, Cutler is the Bears’ present, with suddenly very intriguing possibilities that he hinted at with his performance against the Vikings: a game with 20-of-31 passing for 252 yards, a touchdown, zero interceptions, and a 100.