AP

Bears quarterback Jay Cutler has played for a lot of offensive coordinators over the years with Adam Gase’s arrival in Chicago this year making five in his seven seasons with the team.

It’s inevitable that there are going to be commonalities between some of the different schemes and Cutler has picked up on some between Gase and former Bears offensive coordinator Mike Martz.

“He’s worked with a couple different guys; the good thing is, he’s heard a few things that I say,” Gase said, via John Mullin of CSNChicago.com. “He’ll look at me and kind of, ‘That’s a little Martz’ist right there’.”

While the mention of Martz conjures up images of Cutler getting sacked after a seven-step drop, there was some success while Martz was running the offense in 2010 and 2011. The team went 17-8 with a playoff win while Cutler was healthy in those two years and Cutler’s interception rate in 10 2011 starts is the lowest of his career, two things the Bears wouldn’t mind seeing with Gase at the helm of the offense.

Mullin suggests Gase will follow Martz’s lead by limiting Cutler’s options in the offense rather than leave him exposed to pass rushers while waiting for a vertical route to open up several times a game, although we’ll have to wait a few months to know for sure how Martzian things will look in Chicago this year.