Calling the relationship between the quarterback and his coach the “No. 1 marriage” in all of sports, Marc Trestman said Thursday he cannot wait to jump in and get to work with Jay Cutler.
While Trestman stopped short of calling Cutler a franchise quarterback, he spoke glowingly about the 29-year-old passer who will be going into his fifth season with the team while entering the final year of his contract.
Trestman’s relationship with Cutler dates to before the 2006 NFL draft when he tutored him during a visit in Raleigh, N.C.
“You know, I had a chance to meet with Jay 10 years ago in a hotel room in Raleigh,” Trestman recalled. “It was raining. We had no facility and no receivers. So we basically sat in a room for two days and stared at each other. It was a difficult environment to try to get the most out of somebody. But when I sat with him I found out he had some very core capabilities. He was tough, he was smart and he loved football.
“I had the opportunity to meet with him a couple of days ago. He's a different guy. He's in tune to where he is and where he wants to go. He understands where his strengths and his weakness are and he wants to go forward. I can't wait to get my hands on him and go to work with him. And I think he's ready. And we're going to try to put a system of football and put people around him that can help him be the player that he wants to be. And that's the exciting part and we'll get started today.”
During Trestman’s 17 seasons in the NFL with eight different clubs, he had a reputation as a quarterback guru and certainly that played a large factor in general manager Phil Emery’s decision to hire him.
“Every quarterback is special at the professional level in the National Football League,” Trestman said. “It is so hard playing the quarterback position, are you kidding me? It’s the most difficult position to play in all of sports. Quarterbacks have to have multiple levels of ability from a physical, mental, emotional. It all goes hand in hand. Then they have to be wired to handle the chaos of a pass rush, trajectory of the football, finding the open guy amidst all this chaos when people are trying to knock him down. These guys are tough guys, they are gym rats, they are wired differently.
“That’s why I’ve always been attracted to working with these guys because there is so much involved on a day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to-month, year-to-year basis that these guys have to go through. That’s why we really have to respect them. It is the toughest job in all of sports.
“The formula for success for a quarterback in the National Football League is too complicated to project, and we know that over the years when we think a guy is going to make it and then he doesn’t. The No. 1 marriage in all of sports is the marriage between his quarterback and his coach. That’s it. It starts there. Everything proceeds from there. There has to be a connection and an element of trust, professional trust that you have to have. We don’t have that yet, certainly, but there are indications we got started in the right place. He loves football and I love football. We are going to have two passionate guys in the room trying to win games for the Chicago Bears, and that’s a pretty good start.”
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