Bears re-sign Cutler through 2020
Thereby saving 31 other teams from having to consider Cutler as a viable "option".
Methinks he knew his value to Chicago was greater than his value on the open market.
I would disagree. Cutler was indisputably the #1 quarterback target on the market. The other options for teams looking for a quarterback (Houston and Cleveland, notably, although I expect Houston to draft Bridgewater, and Minnesota, Jacksonville, Tennessee, Arizona and Oakland are all likely to be shoppers) are Vick, Henne, Freeman, possibly Ponder ... and McCown.
That's a murderer's row of dogshit, right there.
That and despite what people think...Cutler is pretty damn talented. There isn't a throw on the field he is incapable of making. Hell he can make better throws than most off of his back foot.