{"id":13302,"date":"2014-12-17T19:08:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T00:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=13302"},"modified":"2014-12-17T19:15:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T00:15:24","slug":"jay-cutler-benched-bears-will-start-jimmy-clausen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/12\/17\/jay-cutler-benched-bears-will-start-jimmy-clausen\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Cutler benched, Bears will start Jimmy Clausen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/jaycutler.jpg\" alt=\"jaycutler\" width=\"594\" height=\"452\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/jaycutler.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/jaycutler-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Chicago Bears have been bad this season and a large part of the blame has fallen on the shoulders of quarterback Jay Cutler.<\/p>\n<p>Cutler of course has done himself no favors tossing 18 interceptions &#8211; including three in an embarrassing loss to the Saints on Monday &#8211; while also committing six fumbles. While he is the NFL&#8217;s highest paid player,  Cutler has averaged a turnover every 33.3 snaps this season<\/p>\n<p>The Bears paid up to keep Cutler in town in the offseason but have not gotten the desired results. According to ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter the decision has been made to bench Culter and start Jimmy Clausen against the Lions this weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>To repeat and now confirmed: Bears starting QB Jimmy Clausen over Jay Cutler on Sunday vs. Detroit, per sources.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/545361552266645504\">December 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Coach Marc Tretsman is firmly on the hot seat and benching Cutler at this point may not be enough to save his job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t been able [to coax the best from Cutler] and we haven\u2019t been able to do the things that we want to get done,\u201d Trestman said via <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/chicago\/bears\/post\/_\/id\/4696500\/marc-trestman-admits-failures-with-jay-cutler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re working towards that. But the answer to that is obvious. I\u2019m trying to give you the most truthful answer and that is, we\u2019ve seen moments of it, but it\u2019s not where we need to go. It\u2019s not where we need to be. But it\u2019s not all about Jay. It\u2019s about our entire offense, working together to get it done.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Bears would absorb $19 million in dead money by releasing Cutler before 2016. He is owed a guaranteed $15.5 for the 2015-16 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bears have been bad this season and a large part of the blame has fallen on the shoulders of quarterback Jay Cutler. Cutler of course has done himself no favors tossing 18 interceptions &#8211; including three in an embarrassing loss to the Saints on Monday &#8211; while also committing six fumbles. While he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[36,426,114,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-13302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-bears","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-jay-cutler","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13305,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13302\/revisions\/13305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13302"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}