<p>It looked to me like Ansah launched himself at Clausen before/at the same time the slide started. At that point he’s not even looking any more, and the slide brought Clausen’s helmet down to Ansah’s helmet level. So I don’t believe he was deliberately targeting Clausen’s head.</p>
<p>That said, he has to have awareness that a qb could slide at any time, and leaving your feet while launching yourself headfirst is just asking for a penalty.</p>
<p>Ansah doesn’t seem to have a history or rep as a dirty player, so I expect he will get a minimum fine.</p>
<p>Fines often aren’t announced until Thursday or Friday, so we might not know for a few more days what the outcome will be.</p>
<p>I was at the Jets - Pats game this weekend and it was a close one. Sad my Jets lost but honestly, I just want this season to end and for us to get a high draft pick! IDC if that makes me a bad fan! ;)</p>
<p>^ As a Pats fan… I sincerely hope so. He’ll kill their cap, cost them high draft picks, continue sucking the soul out of whatever team he is on, and play like crap as well.</p>
<p>Saintfan, re: Cutler, someone will pick him up. From what I’ve seen of the Jets, i wouldn’t be surprised if they did. After all, they won’t get Marcus Mariota, and I’m not sure who else in the upcoming draft is feasible. </p>
<p>Maybe they should get creative and have several QBs on the field at the same time. In fact, that might be the only way they could win. If you can’t outplay the opponent, just confuse him. </p>
<p>LOL ^Literally everything. Probably 10x worse than Manziel in Cleveland</p>
<p>All throughout this year, I had been thinking that maybe this would be the year the Browns turned the ship around and actually made it to the playoffs. I was willing hard for Hoyer to take the team somewhere. (as long as that didn’t interfere with the Texans lol) But in the middle of the season, I feel as if the Browns organization just messed up. I think they jumped the Johnny Manziel gun too quickly… </p>
<p>The overwhelming opinion on the streets is that he has to go. If he doesn’t they risk losing whatever fan base they have left. It will hurt the organization financially, but keeping him is just not an option (as well as Trestman).</p>
<p>See the sunk cost that the Seahawks took to offload Harvin. The money is already spent, you just have to decide if your team is better with him or without him. If he’s dragging the team down the answer is better without him despite the money.</p>
<p>Harvin is $7.2 mil in dead money next year. Cutler would be $19.5 mil in dead money with a $3 mil cap hit, if they cut him.</p>
<p>If they can trade him, the hit is $4 mil in dead money, with a $12.5 mil cap saving.</p>
<p>So there’s a huge swing if they trade him vs. cut him. If they can find someone to take on that contract… the dead money would be zero after 2015, as I believe the Bears would have to swallow the hit for his pro-rated bonus. So as long as you keep him for a year I guess that contract isn’t horrible.</p>
<p>As I heard this morning on ESPN talk there are very few available QBs and only a couple in the draft. They felt that Cutler is better than many available and there are teams that need a QB now who isn’t otherwise available. They named Jets, Bills, Titans and a couple others that I’m not remembering. THey also said that coaches all feel that they have the secret coaching ingredient that will get through to a guy and make him be all that he can be. They though that there was enough coaching ego out there for someone to believe that they could turn him around.</p>
<p>^But isn’t that what Trestman was supposed to do? Many people were touting him as a quarterback guru when he took over the Bears. If there was anyone that could get the best out of Cutler, pundits said it was him.</p>
<p>Lots of qbs were not drafted in the top of the first round - Brady, Wilson, Romo was undrafted. Montana, Tarkenton. Johnny U went 102, Staubach went 129, Bart Starr went 200.</p>
<p>There are always qbs available, it’s a total crapshoot picking one on the top 10. JaMarcus Russell, Ryan Leaf, Mark Sanchez.</p>
<p>I’m not sure Cutler can change his spots. At this point, 8 years in, he is what he is - a coach killer.</p>
<p>That was what Trestman was supposed to do. This commentator’s position was that other coaches are also full of ego and might believe that they would be the one to get the most out of him where others couldn’t.</p>
<p>The thing is that the Jets haven’t exactly proven that they are capable of spotting QB talent having gone through Sanchez, Vick, Tebow and Smith recently.</p>
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