“Lately it occurs to me: What a long, strange trip it’s been.”
I’m about the farthest thing from a Deadhead, but that line from the Grateful Dead’s Truckin’ seems an apt summary of Jay Cutler’s career with the Chicago Bears. Now that he might be done for the season and his guaranteed money has been paid out, it certainly seems like the Jay Cutler era of Chicago Bears football is over.
Jay Cutler has taken Chicago Bears fans on a roller coaster ride of emotions. From April 2, 2009 when everyone thought it was a late April’s Fools Day joke from Bears GM Jerry Angelo to the 2010 NFC Championship game where he “quit” to the rebirth under Marc Trestman to these final days under John Fox, it’s been wildly inconsistent with Cutler.