NFL's Biggest Disappointments This Season
The struggle has been real for some of the game's top stars.
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No Chicago Hope - The 2014 NFL season has not been kind to Jay Cutler. The ornery QB has had a rough go throughout the campaign, sporting a 93.0 QB RTG. The poor play has his Chicago Bears currently sitting in third place in the NFC North with a 5-6 record. This is the same franchise QB who signed a seven-year, $126 million extension through 2020 during the offseason. Definitely disappointing…but he’s not the only one. BET.com scoped out the current NFL landscape and pinpointed many disappointing players and coaches this season.(Photo: Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
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No Bang for the Buc - Lovie Smith was supposed to take over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this season and make them a winning organization again. Instead, the Bucs are 2-9 with a chance to finish this season with a worse record than they had in 2013, when they went 4-12. Ouch. Disappointing for sure, especially considering many critics and analysts had picked Tampa Bay to make the playoffs this season. That’s not happening. (Photo: Cliff McBride/Getty Images)
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No Mediocre - Like Jay Cutler, Andy Dalton inked a huge offseason extension — his with the Cincinnati Bengals — worth $115 million over six years. And like Cutler, Dalton has underwhelmed. Yes, his Bengals have a 5-3-1 record, very much still alive in the AFC playoff picture, but Dalton, with only twelve touchdown passes, hasn’t done anything that should make Cincy’s fan base believe this year could be special. Even if they make the postseason, Dalton will be fighting history as he sports an 0-3 playoff record. (Photo: Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
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San Fran Drama - Look — it’s not easy to make it to three straight NFC championship games, the way the San Francisco 49ers have from 2011-13 and the franchise has a chance to make it four in a row. Nothing has come easy, especially with intermittent talk about coach Jim Harbaugh having lost the locker room all season long. It’s disappointing that Harbaugh couldn’t have gotten an early grip on the squad, which sports a 7-4 record, but if the playoffs started today, they'd be an uninvited guest. (Photo: Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
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Big Blue Struggle - Let’s face it — Jason Pierre-Paul just ain’t the player he used to be. Ever since undergoing back surgery last year, JPP just doesn’t have the explosion he used to have. Come on, we’re talking about a player that offensive coordinators had to account for and many times build their schemes around in 2011, when he recorded 16.5 sacks. What New York Giants fans are left with is a serviceable defensive end…not a superstar one. Disappointing. (Photo: Al Bello/Getty Images)
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