NO, that is the point you're projecting onto people who want to see Trubisky throw the ball.wab wrote:Way to miss the point. Philosophically people are wanting Trubisky to do almost EXACTLY what they didn't want Cutler to do. Air it out and see what happens. Let it rip. Interceptions be damned.Atkins&Rebel wrote:Wow, that is a harsh slant on how some of us feel, and a totally apologetic view of Cutler.wab wrote:I'm still not sure why everyone is so upset about Trubisky taking sacks when there's nothing there. Especially after we just ran a guy out of town who did a lot of what you guys are suggesting Trubisky do.
Bears have 10yr vet who is an athletic gunslinger with huge arm that tries to make something out of nothing, with solid talent around him, which still works against him more often than not. Bears fans hate him for it and chastise coaches for not telling him to be more careful with the ball. Bears ultimately run him out of town.
Bears have rookie that has started like 16 games since high school who is an athletic gunslinger with huge arm that tries to protect the ball rather than make something out of nothing, with less than adequate talent around him. Bears fans don't hate him for it because he's not the other guy, but chastise coaches for apparently turning him into a pussy.
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First, there is a happy balance between the two extremes you describe and until Trubusky pushes the limits he will never know where that threshold is. It's his rookie year, I want him to learn at the expense of conservatism. This last game he was throwing a bit more and he looked good. But it seemed like Watson was given a play and given the OK to improvise if needed...on many plays.
Second, Cutler had 3 bad faults.
-He rarely threw his WR open. He had to see him open first.
-He believed that his arm could compensate for defenders having position
-He made reads slow and held the ball too long even when he had protection.
Part of him opening up is allowing him to make mistakes and learn from them.
Cutler never learned from his mistakes and made the same ones (that I laid out above), over and over and over. That is why he was run out of town.
Manning was allowed to make mistakes, and so were a slew of other rookies who went onto be quality starters.
We can't hold him back out of fear that he might not become a pro bowler, and expect him to develop into a pro bowler.