Whoa. I was ready to spend the evening writing about the nature of sprint six weeks, we seemed set for playoffs here in the NFC North, where the game changer arrival: Chicago Bears Jay Cutler quart broke his thumb on his hand that starts Sunday. Cutler Bears finished '31-20 victory over the San Diego Chargers, but it seems to miss the rest of the regular season.Do not disturb the doctor and ask why the game of the season Cutler could be threatened because of a broken thumb, while quarterback Matthew Stafford Detroit Lions played two games with a broken right index finger. Injuries are completely different. Cutler seems to need surgery to repair his injury.
The important thing is that the Bears have a quarterback change during the most important and competitive office. They have to navigate a transition to the backup Caleb Hanie pace with other NFC playoff contenders. Otherwise, the advantage goes to the Lions, Green Bay Packers, New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons, Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants, who are all in the NFC playoff picture.
Cutler has not necessarily played at a Pro Bowl this season, but he mostly avoided the errors and, especially, was a constant during Bears begins five consecutive victories. During that stretch, he threw seven touchdown passes with three interceptions and took a modest five sacks. The Bears have something good going, of course, and it is difficult to imagine that the rate moves permanently to a new quarter.
Hani has yet to start one of his four NFL seasons, and even well regarded around the league, has not always seemed to have full confidence in the offensive coordinator Mike Martz. The Bears signed veteran Todd Collins to sit in front of Hani on the depth map in 2010 and Martz has finally signed off on Hani as a backup in the summer, after a few bumps preseason.
Hani far left everyone with a good impression after his performance in the second half of 2010 in the game NFC Championship, where he completed 13 of 20 for 153 yards and held Bears will compete against the Packers. But there is much difference between adrenaline rather than emergency and take over a team in the stretch in the playoffs and to be fair to all, Hani never been able to show us he can handle such a task .
I do not think that the Bears playoff hopes are completely sunk. You do not want to minimize the loss of starting quarterback, but the Bears have won many games in recent years, the strength of their defense and special teams. Their formula works when the quarterback to minimize errors more than anything else.
And at this point, the NFC playoffs the public is limited. There are eight teams fighting for playoff legitimately six points. (I'm not a calculation of a record even though they were technically under 0.500 the end of 10-6.) Bears probably need to split their last six games, and maybe four of them wins, reach a place playoff. They can do this untested quarterback? We're about to find out
