Cutler: Career Year

[Cliff Levingston]

As bad as Jay has been this year, he's enjoying his best year as a pro so far in many areas, which was surprising to see when Cliff Levingston started looking at his stats. Cliff Levingston will run down the major stats.

63.2% Completion %. Second best of his career (so far) behind 2007's 63.6%. He has a good chance to bring that up with the way he's been playing.

5.3% TD%, meaning he throws a TD in 5.3% of his throws. This is the highest of his career other than his rookie year where he played in 6 games.

10 INTs. Previous best was 14 in '07 in 16 games. If he averages one per game from here on out, he'll tie that. Unless he has a couple 4 INT games to finish the season, he'll definitely put up one of his best years as far as limiting INTs goes.

8 yards per attempt. His previous best was 7.5 in '07.

12.7 yards per completion. His previous best was 12.4 as a rookie in 6 games, 11.8 for the full year after that.

231.4 yards per game. Not that high, but his second highest of his career behind 2008's incredible 282.9.

92.8 QB Rating. Previous high was 88.1 in '07.

201 yards rushing. After only 11 games, he's jsut 4 yards behind his career high which came in 16 games in '07. With that, his yards per rush and yards per game are the highest of his career, but those don't really matter too much.

...and we all know how much better he's played after the bye, so these numbers could continue to get better in some aspects.

[TNBT]

Those are some very interesting stats. We don't get much American football info here in Australia, but everything I had heard so far this year regarding the Bears was about how terrible the offensive line was, and how because of that, Cutler was throwing so many interceptions and playing so badly. It's good to see that they're not really as bad as the media were making them sound.

[SportsWorld]

Cutler was never bad. Cutler had to adjust to a new team last season and was playing with below average WR's, a bad run game, and the worst O-Line in football and still is this season. I'm hearing the excuses for Peyton Manning's bad play these past few weeks and it's the same thing (Bad run game, bad O-Line, average WR's). A good team can really make bad QB's look good. A bad team can make good QB's look worse than they are.

[BIGGIEsmalls 23]

Cutler was never bad. Cutler had to adjust to a new team last season and was playing with below average WR's, a bad run game, and the worst O-Line in football and still is this season. I'm hearing the excuses for Peyton Manning's bad play these past few weeks and it's the same thing (Bad run game, bad O-Line, average WR's).

+1.....I was thinking the same. I couldn't do anything but when all the "experts" were making excuses for Manning. They were the same ones tearing Cutler to shreds last year & early this year.

[dingojazz]

The thing I like about JC is his his competitiveness and toughness. The dude doesn't miss games (1 in his career which was earlier this year) and he takes a beating at times back there. When he runs he doesn't look to slide early, he always makes a surprise cut and gets a few extra yards.

I think he really wants to win and be great, and if the Bears can develop the other pieces of the offense, the sky is the limit for him really.