Rich Gannon's experience with Marc Trestman helps his voice resonate louder than most of the echoing critics following the Bears' second consecutive non-competitive loss.



Gannon has credibility as one of Trestman's greatest examples of NFL success. He was the Oakland Raiders' quarterback when Trestman was the team's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2002-2003. Gannon was the NFL's most valuable player in 2002, the year the Raiders won the AFC.



Now, Gannon is an analyst for CBS Sports, and he'll call Sunday's game between the Bears and the Minnesota Vikings. On Monday, he sharply criticized the Bears, Trestman and quarterback Jay Cutler on during an interview with "The Mully and Hanley Show" on WSCR-AM (670). Here are Gannon's most notable comments about his former coach and Cutler:



On Bears fans effectively booing and hissing on the radio for nearly three hours of the show Monday morning:



"It's well deserved. That's embarrassing what happened last night. What's so troubling to me is this is a team that came off their bye, well rested. They had a chance to go back and reassess and re-evaluate what they did the first half of the season, make corrections, and really come out and try and salvage the second half of the season and try and find a way to fight their way into the playoffs. To me last night, it just looked like a team that wasn't ready to play. I listened to Marc Trestman's comments about this is a team that's worked hard, preparing hard, doing all the right things. I don't know how you can say that. ... You tell me a team is ready to play when you go out there and perform like that? There wasn't a single player last night as I watched that game, to me, that seemed like they were ready to play."



On Trestman being too worried about players quitting on him to be publicly critical:



"I think you're right. I think he's worried about losing the locker room. I think he feels he's got a fragile football team right now, which is amazing. At some point, I always say, you have to hand the leadership of the football team back over to the players. I just don't know that that's happened. You look at a team like this, and you say, 'Well, how can they continue to lose the way they're losing?'... They're getting throttled.



"And the quarterback, to me, as I watched him last night, he makes me sick to my stomach. His footwork is atrocious at times. You see him back there in the pocket, he's throwing off his back foot. He's all over the place. He's got happy feet. He doesn't set his feet. He's throwing off balance, and it's an accident waiting to happen. He's part of the problem — he's not the whole problem, but he's certainly part of it.



"And you look at them offensively, you start there and say, 'This is a fairly talented group.' I like Matt Forte. I like their receivers. The tight end last night was not ready to play; he put too many balls on the ground, too many drops. I don't know where to begin. It's a mess, and unfortunately it's going to cost some people their jobs."



More on Cutler:



"I don't know what to make of Jay Cutler, guys. It's almost like he's convinced that this isn't going to work, and he's just kind of going through the motions, to me, at times. I don't see the fight. I don't see the passion. I don't see him in the huddle challenging guys."



"You look around on the other sideline, and the other guy (Packers' QB Aaron Rodgers), he's a little bit different. He's wired different. And, of course, he's a talented player. But if we were to put both of those guys in t-shirts and shorts and take them out for a workout, I think the three of us would sit there and go, 'I don't know. Who do you like? I don't know. They both throw the heck out of the ball. They both can move around. They both have some toughness to them. Who would you take?'



"But then all of a sudden you put the helmet on and the shoulder pads and jersey, and it looks a lot different, especially, to me, from the neck up. The other guy is changing plays and protections and he's in control. He's hand-signaling. He's doing everything. He is the CEO of that operation. Everybody knows when you go up to Green Bay who is in charge. Yet, in Chicago, is it Cutler? Is it Trestman? Is it a linebacker? Is it Forte? I don't know who it is. That's the problem. They don't have that defined leader that they need in difficult times."



On if it's possible Cutler isn't open to coaching: