In today’s Chicago Tribune, the best-in-the-business Fred Mitchell has an interview with Dan Grossman, the father of the last quarterback to take the Bears to the Super Bowl in which he lays all the ills of society solely at the feet of the of the organization. Perhaps rightly so.
“It’s a self-perpetuating problem that is not Jay Cutler’s fault,” said the elder Grossman, who played quarterback at Indiana in the '60s. “It’s not Rex Grossman’s fault. It’s not Kyle Orton’s fault. It’s not every other quarterback who has been through that system’s fault. It’s the fault of the organization for not understanding what a quarterback needs.
“What’s amazing to me is, here we go again with Jay Cutler. He came in and he was going to be the franchise quarterback and lead the Bears. I heard some people say they were going to the Super Bowl this year. And here we are, back in the situation where ... because the team is not really built around a passing game, he has struggled. I don’t really blame it on Jay Cutler.
“You know this young man can really play the sport and that position. It borders on the ridiculous. And the media wants to continually rip the player. And they are missing the point. It’s not the player. It’s the organization.
“I’m not even going to rip the coaches. It’s not even the coaches. The coaches are given a clear, strong message: ‘We’re not building an offensive passing team; we’re building an offensive running team.’
It’s hard to argue with that, seeing as the Bears have surrounded Cutler with subpar talent and seem to be expecting him to make them better, but that’s not what they got when they traded for Cutler. They got an immature, finger-pointing whiner who writes checks with his cannon that the talent around him can’t cash, and shame on GM Jerry Angelo for his desperation.
Rexy’s dad is still chomping on some awful sour grapes, though. (tribune)
