Cutler signs 7-year deal. Tim Jennings 4 years.

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The talk that McCown was a viable alternative to Cutler was sheer foolishness. Sure he played well, but he's purely a stopgap, so it was Cutler or start over in the draft. They don't want to play the lottery, so Cutler is the primary choice, but I think the Bears could've played their hand a bit better than they did! He's not elite, and $18M seems pretty top end to me. It almost seems like all the teams are putting more $$$ towards the QB despite a relatively flat salary cap simply because other teams are doing it. Do they think paying the guys more money is going to make them better???

i call it the michael jordan syndrome. when MJ came back from his first retirement he was given a $25 million a year contract. at the time it was unheard of, but the thinking was, he was the best athlete that ever lived and he had been playing for pretty cheap before that.

this set the benchmark and everyone that came after that thought they should also be getting that kind of money or close to it. there was MJ, and there was everybody else, no one was close to him and no one should have been paid like him

in the NFL, you have brady, peyton and rodgers, and then there's everyone else. eli, matt ryan, cutler, stafford, romo, all these clowns aren't anywhere near in the same class as the big three and they shouldn't me making anywhere near the same kind of money.

but its good for us. we're getting our money's worth. everyone else is just pissing away money and cap space on inferior shit

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and back to cutler vs mcnown

cutler got the huge deal, the funny thing is, if mcnown continued to start over cutler when cutler became "healthy", the bears would probably be the ones in the playoff right now

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i call it the michael jordan syndrome. when MJ came back from his first retirement he was given a $25 million a year contract. at the time it was unheard of, but the thinking was, he was the best athlete that ever lived and he had been playing for pretty cheap before that.

this set the benchmark and everyone that came after that thought they should also be getting that kind of money or close to it. there was MJ, and there was everybody else, no one was close to him and no one should have been paid like him

in the NFL, you have brady, peyton and rodgers, and then there's everyone else. eli, matt ryan, cutler, stafford, romo, all these clowns aren't anywhere near in the same class as the big three and they shouldn't me making anywhere near the same kind of money.

but its good for us. we're getting our money's worth. everyone else is just pissing away money and cap space on inferior shit

Ya, that's pretty much how I feel about it.