Let me start off by saying that those who were expecting the Bears to win the division, or the Super Bowl, was not thinking clearly.

Here are some stats of the last five Super Bowl Winners at the end of their respective regular seasons:

2014: Seattle Seahawks:               Points Scored Per Game: 8^th : 26.1 pts/game

Points Allowed Per Game: 1^st : 14.4 pts/game

2013: Baltimore Ravens:                Points Scored Per Game: 8^th: 24.9 pts/game

Points Allowed Per Game: 12^th: 21.5 pts/game

2012: New York Giants:                                 Points Scored Per Game: 9^th :  24.6pts/game

Points Allowed Per Game: 25^th:  25.0 pts/game

2011: Green Bay Packers:             Points Scored Per Game: 10^th : 24.2pts/game

Points Allowed Per Game: 2^nd 15.0 pts/game

2010: New Orleans Saints:            Points Scored Per Game: 1^st 31.9 pts/game

Points Allowed Per Game: 20^th 21.3 pts/game

2015 Chicago Bears:                        Points Scored Per Game: 23^rd: 19.9 pts/game

Points Allowed Per Game 31^st: 27.6 pts/game

As you can see, the Bears are not close to any of the past Super Bowl Champions. Even if a Super Bowl winning team’s defense or offense was bad, the other side would make up for it. The Bears were simply atrocious at both.

Did we have a lot of offensive fire power coming into the season? Yes, we even had a much improved line. We had stars like Brandon Marshall, Alshon Jeffery, Matt Forte, and Martellus Bennett. What use is Matt Forte when you don’t even get him the ball? Why in the world would you ever hire a coach from the Canadian football league?

Sure, but what stars do we have on the defense? Kyle Fuller and Tim Jennings are decent that is all. Willie Young was a stud. But the rest of the defense was awful.  Not to mention, the play calling on both offense and defense was terrible.

The solution is not to get rid of Jay Cutler or to blow up the whole thing.

Never in my wildest dreams did I picture myself saying (or writing) this, but the Dallas Cowboys should be the blueprint to next season.  Tony Romo was much maligned for his continual playoff absences and abundance of mistakes in the regular season. This year, the Cowboys let Romo have less of the offensive burden leading to fewer mistakes. His pass attempts in the 2014-2015 season were a whole hundred less than the previous season while Demarco Murray’s rushing attempts went from 217 to 392; a huge 175 more.

The key for the Bears is to give Matt Forte the ball more. This will keep our horrible defense off the field as well as holding the other team’s offense off of the field. The Cowboys’ defense severely lacks talent and this has largely been masked due to the Cowboys’ increased time of possession.

The fact is Jay Cutler is as talented as Tony Romo, if not more so. Maybe we just need a coaching staff that will put him in the best position to succeed.

Sure, Jay Cutler’s inconsistency and sour post-game interviews can drive fans mad, but he is capable of winning a playoff game if given a good situation. And if we do trade him, what would we get in return? A better quarterback? No. If anything, a new quarterback will be worse. If we wait to develop another one, then the wait for a Lombardi Trophy in Chicago will increase even more without a guarantee of the new one even being better than Jay Cutler. And if we do try to get a game-changing rookie quarterback? We’ll probably have to tank (purposely lose games) to have a chance at the obvious candidates seeing how the Bears miss on a large majority of their draft picks.