As much as I think the Mike Martz signing might be a disaster in Chicago, I can’t blame the Bears for the hire.  I don’t like when people complain if they don’t have a solution in place, so it’s hard to fault Chicago for the Martz hire since the alternatives weren’t any better.  If you are choosing sides in a pickup basketball game and Rodney McCray, Pete Myers, and Kyle Macy are the only guys left, you can’t choose Michael Jordan.

Despite the debacle in the hiring process, the fact remains that a Jeremy Bates or similar hire would have received a lot more backlash (who is this guy? what experience does he have? etc etc) than hiring a guy who won a Super Bowl.

The question that makes me nervous is whether Jay Cutler can adapt to him or not.  Kurt Warner was on the radio yesterday, saying that it’s important to be willing to change, even one’s mechanics, for a guy like Martz if you really feel he can make you a better player and make the offense better.  Why do I get nervous?  Because Cutler needs to put his faith in a new coach and trust that the coach knows what’s best.  So far with the Bears, that hasn’t been Cutler’s strength.

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