You can’t teach someone to be good at one position if they don’t have the skills for it. Mike Tice is a great Offensive Line coach but even he can’t make the stiffs guarding Cutler any good. As for passing numbers, the Bears played the last six games of this year with awful QB play by guys who shouldn’t have been in the league so you can’t judge this year’s numbers. When Cutler was in they were scoring a lot of points during the five game win streak.
Except of course the offensive line performance dramatically improved, so Tice must have done something right. With Cutler for the whole season they ranked 28th in 2010, with Cutler out for a good chunk they ranked 26th. Where the finger should point is obvious to anybody that’s paid attention to Martz’s career, Martz. He’s a bad coordinator, period, and no amount of BSing about “stiffs” will change the simple facts that in spot after spot after spot the end results for Martz remain consistent, his QBs get sacked a lot, and the offense doesn’t really produce. Everybody that hires him hopes they get the Greatest Show on Turf, but his stats show that was an anomaly.