Reading Jaws’ commentary under each pick got annoying, especially when each play it seemed like he was piling on Cutler.  OK, we get it.  Bad mechanics.  Bad decisions. Bad everything.

To spare you from reading the whole article and going through the tedium of the slide show, I did some old fashioned number-crunching of my own.  So I took their analysis and got to crafting some fancy pie charts to see what really went on last season.  Why?  Why not?  It’s the offseason and I’m bored.  So check out my breakdown of their breakdown:

Green Bay leads the way with six of JC’s twenty-six picks, but they did it in two games.  An impressive honorable mention to the Niners, who tallied five picks in a single game.

The talk much of the season was that Jay needed night vision goggles because he seemed to thrown more picks at night.   How about a 50/50 split when all is said and done?  That number is skewed a bit since he threw 9 picks in just two prime time dates.   If nothing else, it seems like he threw picks in bunches under the bright lights.

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Jay hangs his head after a 5 INT night in San Fran.

The NFL has been re-stocking their coffers, doling out some juicy fines over the last few days. Chad Ochocinco’s $1 bribe to an official cost him $20,000 more.  Tommie Harris dropping a Deuce (Litui)?  $7500.

Just to add a little insult to injury, Jay Cutler has been fined $20k for “abusive conduct” toward the referee in last Sunday’s loss to the Arizona Cardinals.

Here’s ESPN’s Adam Schefter’s tweet:

Jay should be fined for abusive conduct toward Bears fans and the game of football, because his 5 INT night last night in the Bears 10-6 loss to the 49ers set modern quarterbacking back a few decades.  Salt, meet wound.

If they want to fine Cutler, they should start fining him by the interception.  By the end of the season, they’ll make way more money that way.

As I saw tweeted by Vaughn McClure, Jay should have just punched the ref – it only cost Tommie $7500 for throwing a punch.

BEAR DOWN!!!

Jay is historically bad in the Bears 10-6 loss to the 49ers.

Jay Cutler gift wrapped a W for the San Francisco 49ers by throwing five – yes 5 - interceptions.   In case you wer lucky enough not to witness it because you don’t get the NFL Network, you can relive the lowlights from my live game blog here and for more coverage on the game, check out my post-game wrap here.

If you want to relive an historically bad performance, check out all 5 picks here, here, here, here and here.    Yup – that’s 5 on the night and 17 on the season!  17 freaking picks!  He leads the NFL.  As in worse than Jake Delhomme or Derek Anderson.

Ironically, Kyle Orton was the last Bear to throw 5 picks in a game in his rookie season.  You remember Orton, right?  The guy we traded along with two first round draft picks to get our “franchise quarterback.”  Cutler had more INT’s tonight than Orton has on the season – THE SEASON!

That is beyond Grossman-esque.  It is single-handedly the worst quarterbacking performance that I can ever remember.  That includes Rex Grossman, Craig Krenzel, Jonathan Quinn and the whole bunch that they’ve trotted out of the Bears QB Clown Car.

Of course, the NFL Network had to remind us of our QB impotence by digging up the Micro Machines fast talker guy, rapid-fire pitchman John Moschitta Jr., from whatever crevice he fell into for two decades to rattle off “The List.”  In Chicago, The List is the list of starting QB’s that the Bears have trotted out since Jim McMahon led the Bears to their Super Bowl season back in 1985.

People can try to defend Cutler by saying he has no time because the offensive line sucks or that he has no receivers or whatever other excuses they want to throw out there.  You can say that Hester fell down on one of the picks or that the ref bumped him off on another.  The bottom line is that you cannot throw picks to 300 pound defensive linemen at the goal line.  You cannot throw into triple coverage.  You must protect the ball.  Period.  Bottom line.  End of story.

All that’s left for the 2009 season is to help Bronco fans start planning what to do with a top 10 pick in the 2010 draft and to start looking for the next quarterback to trot out of the Bears QB Clown Car.