Bears, Cutler agree to two-year contract extension

[captainbronco]

have fun with those endzone picks and impulsive behavior....

[Da Swerski]

Hey, you leave Jay Cutler alone, he's 3rd all time in Bears history.

3rd all time in what? Had Cutler played one more season with the Broncos he'd have been 2nd all time in just about everything.

Wow.

Huge problems in the o-line, skimpy WR talent, no decent backup RB behind Forte, a troubled defensive Secondary, a MLB carousel trying to fill in for Urlacher and Jerry Angelo decides that the best possible use of available cap space is to extend a QB with middle-of-the-pack performance who's already locked up for the next 2 years.

Just when I think ol' Jerry's got his head as far up his butt as it can go, he manages to jam it up there a few more inches...

Were there other things available this year? You do realize cap space doesn't roll over. What you do with your cap space this year doesn't mean you get that next year. It's smart to do it now because we are so far under the cap.

Why only two years? Why only 20 Mil?

Sounds to me like they don't quite believe.

More telling to me than that though, is that Cutler accepted it.

The reason the Bears and Cutler wanted to do this was the following. With the new CBA not worked out the 2010 will be uncapped, and 2011 locked out. That locked out year would have been Cutler's contract year. Now regardless of what happens in 2011. He has guaranteed money. He'll still be in his prime when he goes for the big contract.

[LarryDean]

Bears, Cutler agree to two-year contract extension

I dont blame them ...

Right now Chicago is not a very good team ....Redzone int and all Cutler gives them the best shot at winning over any other QB they could have got or had in the NFL and it gives them a player the team can build some semblance of an offense around ....

[bahn]

The Bears wants to keep Cutles but dont want to give him a big contract. The're probably thinking that when Shanny gets a HC job next season, Cutles will want to be reunited with him and demand to be traded there.
If they didnt sign him to a "modest" extension deal now,
the only way they can keep him is to give him a gazillion dollar deal which they know they cant afford.

:go:

[Da Swerski]

Biggs: Breaking down the dollars for Cutler

The Bears didn’t plan on going to Jay Cutler about a contract extension this season, general manager Jerry Angelo said, but when his agent Bus Cook presented a few ideas to the team in the wake of the blockbuster deals signed by Eli Manning and Philip Rivers this summer, the parties quickly found some common ground.

Cutler was able to avoid having a $12 million roster bonus, that wasn’t guaranteed in 2011, moved up with the threat of a possible work stoppage then. The Bears were able to take advantage of a surplus of salary cap room this season, and position themselves to build the team around the quarterback moving forward. For cap and cash purposes, it made sense because the Bears figure to be active in free agency with Angelo already without his first- and second-round draft picks next season.

“We felt given the uncertainty of the CBA, given the fact we had the cap room, this was a good time for us because what it does for us is it helps our planning going forward,’’ Angelo said. “This will not impede us to not do anything we need to do in free agency moving forward. In fact, it’s going to help us now because there’s real clarity because Jay was always in the plans. It was just when we were going to do it and how much it was going to … the cost. All that got resolved in a timely manner.

“We’re very very happy with that. I know Jay is happy with that. He made it very clear he wanted to be a Bear. Money was never an issue when we made the trade with him.”

Cutler’s two-year extension is worth $30 million and it includes $20 million guaranteed, $16 million of which he will receive this season. It essentially becomes a $50 million, five-year contract after this season. He actually reduced the money that was due to him in 2011 with uncertainty clouding the relationship between owners and players.

“I think every player in the league is probably concerned with that because we don’t know what is going to happen, is there going to be a lockout or what’s going to happen?’’ Cutler said. “You know, the (players association) is advising everyone to save money. So any money you can get before that point is going to be good for any player.’’

The National Football Post has obtained a breakdown of the payouts for Cutler. Here is how the money falls in the deal:

2009
$7 million signing bonus
$9 million added to his base salary
Cutler was already earning a base salary of $1.035 million this season.

2010
$7.5 million base salary

2011
$8.1 million base salary

2012
$8.2 million base salary

2013
$8.9 base salary

[ExBearFan]

2009
$7 million signing bonus
$9 million added to his base salary
Cutler was already earning a base salary of $1.035 million this season.

HOLY CRAPOLA! He's getting $17M for this season? Lessee...10 TDs then subtract 8 TOs, that works out to......huh.

Maybe he's getting paid by the turnover.

[ExBearFan]

It's an extension. Cutler is now signed for 5 years. Cutler still had 3 years remaining on his rookie deal.

The Bears GM just gave the entire world the middle finger saying "F you morons, I know what I am doing."

They had no reason to resign Cutler with 3 years remaining on his deal. It got them nothing. They made the move to show the world "we were right for trading away our future for this guy." Just when the Bears start getting a little heat for making the deal, the GM slams it back in people's face by digging a deeper hole, if you will.

I believe this is right on the money. (No pun intended.)

Yet they couldn't pick up a WR in FA because he didn't have the money. This is gonna be one of those this-GM-loves-this-player kind of thing. Come hell or high water, he's gonna back him, more even than he did Grossman.

That's a bad, bad thing.

[Apoc13]

the bears have been looking for a qb since sid luckman...may as well tie him up for a while....the haters can hate but it's a solid deal for the bears

[Apoc13]

the bears have been looking for a qb since sid luckman...may as well tie him up for a while....the haters can hate but it's a solid deal for the bears

or maybe not

[JoeyBee]

the bears have been looking for a qb since sid luckman...may as well tie him up for a while....the haters can hate but it's a solid deal for the bears

or maybe not

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