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Jay Cutler working Bears game during NFL on FOX debut

By Jason Parker

Nov 20, 2016; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler (6) lays on the field after a late hit by New York Giants defensive end Olivier Vernon (54, not pictured) at MetLife Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 20, 2016; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler (6) lays on the field after a late hit by New York Giants defensive end Olivier Vernon (54, not pictured) at MetLife Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports /
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Jay Cutler, who literally retired from the NFL on Friday to join FOX as a game analyst, will be covering his old Chicago Bears team during his TV debut.

For the last eight seasons, the man under center most of the time for the Chicago Bears has been Jay Cutler. You can tell because he was usually the one having to pick himself off the ground, never smiling and pretty much blaming others for his mistakes while compiling a Hall of Fame worthy 51-51 record during that time when starting for what used to be a good team.

On Friday, Cutler decided he wanted to hang it up after 11 seasons in the league – possibly in part because no one wanted to sign him, it seems – and signed a deal to be the next game analyst for FOX Sports, working with one of the network’s rising stars in Kevin Burkhardt and replacing John Lynch, who left to go fleece the Bears this past draft as the new GM of the San Francisco 49ers.

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As it turns out, the Bears and Jay Cutler aren’t able to quit each other just yet as Burkhardt let Adam Schein from Mad Dog Sports on Sirius XM Radio know that the broadcast team’s first game this season will be the Bears clash with the Tennessee Titans during the third week of the preseason.

Burkhardt also went on to compliment what he has seen so far from Cutler when it comes to adjusting to life in the booth, via NBC Sports Pro Football Talk:

"He said Cutler was “so into the preparation” and that Cutler’s performance left him feeling confident that Cutler’s “sarcastic humor” will help him be a good fit for the job."

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It will be interesting to see how Jay Cutler’s notoriously dry sense of humor – so dry it makes you feel like we’re back in the prohibition error of the 1920s – will be seen on television or if he will actually be able to loosen up and be a real human being once in a while. It will also be fun to see what he has to say about the new quarterbacks on the Bears’ sideline, Mike Glennon and second overall pick Mitchell Trubisky.

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