Bears releasing Jay Cutler, and Jets appear to be his only suitor

Jay Cutler’s time in Chicago has finally come to an end as the Bears released the veteran quarterback on Thursday, almost nine years after the team traded for him back in April of 2009.

Reports indicated that the Bears tried to trade Cutler ahead of the start of the league year, but that wasn’t going to happen in this market.

On the other hand, Glennon has all of 18 career National Football League starts to his credit, none the past two years as he held a clipboard behind Jameis Winston.

The NFL headlines will be heating up this week with the beginning of free agency starting, that means big names moving with even bigger contracts being signed. It looks like they’re very, very close to signing him; they’ll likely make him their newest franchise QB as soon as they’re allowed to do so. The Bears, search for a great quarterback for decades, jumped all over it.

According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, the three-year contract is expected to pay Glennon an average of $14.5 million per season.

So with the Jay Cutler era in the rearview mirror, it appears that it’s now on to the Mike Glennon Era. He did start 13 games his rookie year – only winning four of them.

In Taylor’s second season as a starter in 2016, he completed 61.7 percent of his passes for 3,023 yards with 17 touchdowns and six interceptions.

Clearly, Pace believes that Glennon is the better quarterback if he is willing to spend the kind of money being reported. I understand Glennon has proven himself as a capable starter, but why did the Bucs give up on him and pursue Winston? The “Smokin’ Jay Cutler” meme is probably more memorable than any of his Bears highlights. If true, that would rank Glennon 23rd among quarterbacks now under contract in terms in annual average.