Love him or hate him (9/10 will opt for “hate” on this one), Jay Cutler is the greatest passer in Chicago Bears history. The stats, numbers and records back this claim up 100%. We’re not saying that Jay Cutler is the greatest Chicago Bears quarterback ever, just the best pure passer in the long storied history of the NFL charter franchise.
To be considered the best QB, he has to win something really substantial in a Bears uniform, and he obviously hasn’t done that yet. However, he has produced.
#CuttyDoesIt tied Sid Luckman for the Bears record in career touchdown passes today as #6 achieved TD pass #137.
As Simpsons bartender Moe Szyslak said: “bye weeks, Sid Luckman didn’t get no bye weeks, and now he’s dead.”
“Well, I guess they’re a good thing.”
Szyslak actually said it about Bronko Nagurski, not Sid Luckman, but you get the idea. Luckman and Nagurski played together on the 1943 Bears NFL championship team.
According to our friends at Windy City Gridiron, SB Nation’s Chicago Bears community:
Cutler already owns the franchise record for passing yards, completions, quarterback rating, and even the number of times sacked(!), and before it’s all said and done, will likely own a lot more.
Jay Cutler is the best quarterback in the history of the Chicago Bears franchise, and after this season, will only have one more year remaining under contract.
Yes, make no mistake about it, Jay Cutler will be the starting quarterback of your Chicago Bears in 2016. Luckman guided the Bears to four championships in the 1940s, as that was the true “Monsters of the Midway” era. The only legitimate Bears dynasty existed in the 1940s, no matter how much we get the ’85 Bears incessantly shoved down our throats.
That’s why Jim McMahon is so overrated in the eyes of Bears “historians.” Yes, he actually won something.
In reality though, McMahon wasn’t much more than a rich man’s Kyle Orton- a very good “game manager.” Of course, the best QB in Bears history is Luckman, not Cutler, McMahon, Orton or anybody else.
Jay Cutler does have the best hair though of any Bears QB, so let’s give him that.
It is unfortunate that he’s married to someone who refuses to believe in basic medical science, but what can you do, right?
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