Jay Cutler is playing Yoda (the old one, not the baby one) to Mitch Trubisky’s Luke Skywalker (the original trilogy one, not the sequel trilogy one).
Cutler appeared on Bartsool Sports’ Pardon My Take podcast and advised Trubisky to try to drown out any outside noise.
“Oh goodness. ... Don’t read anything ... go underground here bud,” Cutler said.
“For a young guy like him, being in Chicago, it’s a tough town,” Cutler said. “Expectations were huge, so you watch some of his press conferences and stuff — you could tell it really bothered him sometimes I think. Whether that affects him, I don’t know ... it has to somehow.
“The more he can get away from that stuff, the better [it will be] for him going forward.”
Cutler also thought removing the televisions from Halas Hall, something Trubisky suggested during the season, wasn’t a bad idea.
“Trying to get some of these TVs in the building turned off,” Trubisky said in November. “You’ve got too many people talking on TV about us and what they think about us — what we should do, what we are and what we’re not — but they don’t really know who we are. Or what we’re capable of as people. Or what we’re going through. Or what we’re thinking.
“It’s just the outside viewers looking in.”
