Confirming reports from Sunday night, Dolphins quarterback Jay Cutler did indeed suffer cracked ribs in Miami’s Week 7 win over the Jets, tweets Ian Rapoport of NFL.com. Cutler is initially expected to miss two-to-three weeks while recovering from the injury.
With Cutler sidelined, Miami is meeting with free agent quarterback David Fales, per Rapoport (Twitter link). Fales spent the summer with the Dolphins, and also worked under Miami head coach Adam Gase when the pair was in Chicago. Given that history, Fales should have enough familiarity with Gase’s offense in order to serve as Matt Moore‘s backup on Thursday night. If signed, Fales will have been chosen over Dolphins practice squad quarterback Brandon Doughty.
Despite Cutler’s struggles to begin the 2017 season, he’s expected to remain Miami’s starter under center when he returns from injury, according to Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald. Moore could certainly change that with excellent play over the next several weeks, but the Dolphins plan to re-insert Cutler when he’s available. Cutler, who un-retired to join Miami, hasn’t performed well this year, as he ranks 28th in quarterback rating and 29th in adjusted net yards per attempt.
when in doubt get more ex Bears QBs.
Get Kaepernick
Kaepernick will never set foot in an NFL stadium again unless he buys a ticket
Quick….offer Rex Grossman 10 million dollars if he’ll come out of retirement…..
I seriously hope Matt Moore leads this team to some wins and puts up some respectable numbers to force Gase into leaving Smokin Jay on the sidelines.
Its sad we have to hope our backup qb outperforms our starting qb, meanwhile we’re the worst 4-2 team ive watched.