This is it. For the first time in eight season the Chicago Bears are on the precipice of making a franchise-altering change at the quarterback position. One can say they may have mishandled the Jay Cutler era. Fair enough. However, one can never say they didn’t give the 33-year old an honest chance to prove he was one of the best in football. In the end it didn’t work. Now the team is finally ready to accept that and move on.
The question is how? To who? No doubt it’s one of the toughest in all of professional sports to answer. There is a fundamental divide everybody knows. There are teams that have quarterbacks and teams that don’t. Those that have one are almost always competing in the playoffs and challenging for Super Bowls.
Chicago hasn’t been in that position for decades. This new regime is trying to change that. In order to do so they have to get their guy. Somebody they feel is right not just in talent but in terms of fitting the culture they’re trying to build. After consistent examination of the known facts, one name has begun to rise above the rest.
