It rarely serves to spend excessive energy or time looking at the past (“cowards and losers” notwithstanding). But sometimes the past indeed holds foreshadowings of what’s to come.
So it may be with Jay Cutler, whose bosses have changed far more and more often than he has over the past six seasons as a Bear and the three before that in Denver. Improvements have occurred, but almost unfailingly have been followed by regressions to the mean. Meaning: Cutler has returned to his base course of excessive reliance on supposed physical talents, innate aggressiveness and, unfortunately shaking decision-making under pressure.