Biggs: Bears Found Shopping Jay Cutler 'Tough'
(CBS) Along with a wild start to the new NFL year, Tuesday brought us more confirmation that Jay Cutler will be the Bears' quarterback moving forward for 2015.
It also brought questions and debate -- did the new Bears regime actually have Cutler on the trading block or not?
Chicago Tribune beat writer Brad Biggs joined the Mully and Hanley Show on Wednesday morning to give his perspective.
"They probably discreetly shopped him to teams that they thought they might be able to -- thought might be in the market for a quarterback," Biggs said. "Listen, you're not going to shop a Jay Cutler to a team with a proven quarterback situation. They're going to ask you, 'Is there anything else you called for?'
"I think they discreetly shopped him and realized it was going to be as tough as they figured it would be because of the contract that he has. That's just going to make it hard to move him. I think he's the quarterback for the (2015) season. I think if you moved him, then you were opening up a whole new set of issues, which would've been, 'What now?' I think they wouldn't have had a problem going down that path because they would've gotten rid of the contract, but 'What now?' Jay's going to be the quarterback, and they're going to work for a way to make this a good situation for everyone. We'll see if they can pull it off."
Despite signing a seven-year deal in January 2014, Cutler's not viewed as Chicago's quarterback of the future. Come Thursday, $10 million more on his contract will become guaranteed.
Publicly, the Bears will soon have to put on a happy face.
"You're going to hear all the stuff that you heard going into every other offense that he's been in," Biggs said. "I'm telling you, you'll be able to copy and paste the quotes and then go back and find the Marc Trestman of that, the Mike entice version of that, the Mike Martz of that.
"It's up to Jay to go out and be a different quarterback."
Listen to Biggs' full interview here. He also discusses the wild Tuesday in the NFL.