Cutler To Bears Fans: Tone It Down When We're In The Red Zone, Okay?

By Chuck Sudo in News on Sep 10, 2012 7:40PM

Not all of the talk on Bears Victory Monday is related to the offense's performance. Quarterback Jay Cutler had this nice suggestion after the game.

"Please, please, please let’s tone it down a little bit when we’re down in the 20,” Cutler said after the game as he delivered a message to the fans. “You’re more than welcome to yell and scream and do whatever you want to do after we score, but please, let’s go ahead and quiet the stadium down and save it for after we score. Thank you. That’s my PSA.”

Cutler being Cutler, he couldn't help but sound like a bit of a dick when he said this, which is exactly how some Bears fans are telling this on Our Town's sports radio talkers today.

Look, a competent Bears offense (let alone a high-powered one) is less frequent around these parts than Halley's Comet. And don't get us started on the delusional expectations of Bears fans that make the fans of Friday Night Lights' fictional Dillon Panthers seem reasonable. Cutler's crime here is voicing what every NFL team quietly deals with every week during the season. They'll say crowd noise doesn't affect them

For what it's worth, coach Lovie Smith had QB1's back at his press conference this afternoon.

“When we have the ball offensively, yes, we would like our crowd to be as quiet as possible,” he said.

The head coach did say, however, that the fans “were outstanding when defense was out there.”

This will go over like a fart in church, given that Smith is probably the one member of the Bears who's disliked more than Cutler. So your homework, Bears fans is to study the final scene from The Longest Yard (the original. not the Adam Sandler remake).

And follow that to the letter up until the Bears score. Keep your comments about Cutler being a whining milk baby to yourselves and, if the Bears do win a Super Bowl with him under center, you can compare him to Jim McMahon and Sid Luckman all you want.