Bears' Jay Cutler must earn starting QB job in 'open competition'
Most expect Jay Cutler to be the Chicago Bears' starting quarterback for Week 1 of 2015 but head coach John Fox wants him to earn it.
Fox told reporters on Wednesday that the quarterback job will be up for grabs.
"It’s all an open competition," Fox said. "Obviously you’ve got to start somewhere and my experience in football, really in anything, it’s not where you start a competition; it’s where you finish it."
The new Bears coach added that he does have some sort of idea who the starters will be when the season kicks off, though.
"But we’ve got to start the race with some kind of lineup. We have not discussed that in depth. We have not presented it to our players yet. I kind of have it in my brain and then they compete."
Cutler hasn't been terrible in Chicago, but he's failed to take that next step into the category of one of the elite quarterbacks in the NFL. His play appears worse when one factors in the massive amount of money he's making.
All Cutler has to do is beat out Jimmy Clausen to claim the job. It sounds easy, but keep in mind, Fox was the one who drafted Clausen in Carolina back in 2010.
The smart money is still on Cutler to be the starter and Fox is likely just trying to motivate his signal caller.