The New York Times reports: Trent Dilfer didn't exactly set the world on fire as an NFL quarterback, but the ESPN analyst has joined the chorus of national media types dissing Jay Cutler.
"He was never as good as everybody said he was," Dilfer told the Times. "He has great talent and remarkable upside, but he's a very average player."
Dilfer says the Bears quarterback is fundamentally flawed. "He is locked in on his primary receiver and he lets it fly," Dilfer said. "He hardly ever gets to the No. 3 receiver and he very rarely even gets to No. 2."
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"He was never as good as everybody said he was," Dilfer told the Times. "He has great talent and remarkable upside, but he's a very average player."
Dilfer says the Bears quarterback is fundamentally flawed. "He is locked in on his primary receiver and he lets it fly," Dilfer said. "He hardly ever gets to the No. 3 receiver and he very rarely even gets to No. 2."
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I'm trying to view this in the 5.3.354 version of the aol browser and the page looks sorta messed up. Might want to check that out.
Wow! I'm really tired of all the Rips on Cutler!
The guy still has to go out there and play QB for us so this continual garbage I hear or read about is disappointing!
Some of these so called Bear Fans need to find another team to root for... We really dont need ya! Saeriously!
Please don't get ahead of yourselves with all of the Vince Young talk. What has been the difference in the 3 or 4 games that VY has won the past few weeks? Chris Johnson has been running for nearly 200 yards a game and he has max protection. I think Cutler could manage a little better if the Bears were giving him a little more than 1.8 yards per carry to keep the defensive backs more honest. Take a look at the Indy/NE game this year and look at how the Greats Manning and Brady did when they had three seconds or less to throw the ball versus when they had nearly 10 seconds to throw.
Everyone wants to jump on Jay and run him out of town for throwing picks and over-throwing the WRs, but no one is even mentioning the poise it took to throw the TD to Davis in the Eagle game. He had a blitzing DB right in his face with his hands up as he threw the ball just before getting hit to the perfect spot where Davis could make a play on it. Not many in the league that could make that throw. Also, the problem that I have with most fans is that if he does complete that throw to knox and it turns out to be the game winner, Cutler is a hero and all of the INTs are forgotten. But he overthrew it because he probably expected pressure to be coming, so he is a bum. If he goes out and beats his majesty Brett Favre and the VIkings this weekend, he is a hero again.
Dilfer has actually won a playoff game and has a Super Bowl ring to show for his career.
The big difference is that Dilfer was much less talented but had actual leadership qualities that Jay Cutler may very never possess. Cutler in Denver balked at spending time looking over the press box photos of coverages and talking with his teammates about plays or discussing routes and coverages...instead he sulked alone on the bench or standing away from his team and coaches.
The Denver Jay and the Chicago Jay are the same person. Changing the talent, plays, and coaches will not instantly turn him into a franchise QB. He needs a heart transplant and a set of brass ones installed before he becomes anything more than a strong armed QB.
Jeff Fisher in Tennessee knew there was something off about him and wisely passed him up in the draft as he had seen enough of Cutler at Vandy to notice that he was not the guy to pick up a bad team and carry them despite the odds.
Some people seem a little too fixated on Cutler's Pro Bowl selection last year. He sure did not earn it. He put up nice stats between the 20's, but his red-zone chokes should have been enough to knock him out of contention.
Dilfer is actually a very good analyst. I agree. Cutler is avg. at best and Angelo got hosed....again and DEN will have a Top Ten draft pick. Jerry, you're FIRED!!.
Love the idiocy in logic found here.
Dilfer is a paid commentator, one who's increasingly earned respect around the league. And one who has a reputation for telling it the way it is.
The idea that he shouldn't be able to criticize any qb better than he was, considering he was an average qb, is stupidity at it's best. But then again, this is sports, the world of homerism...
Trent Dilfer was the definition of average. He's just mad that Cutler has already made a Pro-Bowl. I don't think Dilfer ever came anywhere near a 4,000 yard year. What a douche.
Jay. This is fickle Chicago. They will root for the Cubs forever knowing that the Cubs will never do anything. Then they will heckle you for playing on a team with less than mediocre receivers and an offensive line that is offends. You should stay in the pocket and throw bullets even though teams are blitzing you on every down. I remember when the Bears had a running game. It just so happens you come and they look for people to please tackle them. I say you may be an average quarterback, but you are the best Chicago has had and will ever have.
If there's one thing in the world Trent Dilfer should know well, it's what an average QB looks like.
coming from the very definition of average, this is quite funny. seems like dilfer has let that ring that his defense won him, go to his head. its telling when the team you win the superbowl with, wont have you back the next year. now all we need is for salisbury to criticize him.
Jay Cutler is a very good quarterback. These receivers are not what he had in Denver, except for Johnny Knox. So He can't survey the field thinking I can throw the ball in the receivers' vacinity and he will get it. So he is pressured into making too perfect a throw. The Bears need to go and get a bonefied great receiver.
C'mon ....Cot Cutler some slack.........he's the best QB that opposing denfensive backs have ever seen
Cutler sucks. Vince Young is becoming the best QB of that draft class
"He was never as good as everybody said he was"
"He has great talent and remarkable upside, but he's a very average player"
Take out the "great talent" and "upside" parts and you have the scouting report for Dilfer for when he was playing.
You know what? You should probably take out the "average player" part too if you want a true description of Dilfer
I'll go with Troy Aikman's positive assessment. Someone actually gave Trent Dilfer a job as an analyst? Wow, there must be a lot of analyst jobs to give this 3rd rate hack one.