Is Mitch Trubisky a good quarterback?

Mich true Biscay is the toughest

quarterback

to figure out in the NFL. It's been a long time since I've studied a player where it's legitimately hard to even guess where he'll be in two years because it's hard to even know where he is. Now, from week to week, from quarter to quarter, even from moment to moment, Biscay is so wildly inconsistent that depending on which games you watch, he's either one of the best young

quarterback

s in the league or a future support from Trevor Lawrence and that inconsistency has made this assessment. It's very difficult because I had to watch every snapshot he took just to start to get a sense of who he really is ultimately.

The parody is both precise and inaccurate, decisive and indecisive and both very scared in low-pressure situations. Simultaneously being a cold killer in high-pressure situations, his stats don't make any sense on the surface and that's why, at least for me, you can't come to a proper conclusion about Travis Key without looking at the

good

. The bad and the ugly on his tape, you have to dive into the frustrating parts of Travis Key before you can really understand the context of all the

good

parts that Bears fans are so excited about and so today we'll at least try to do that .

Going over the three things that I think most defined Travis Key positively and negatively, precision, decision making, and performance under pressure, we'll start by first looking at precision, which was perhaps his most difficult tendency to contextualize on film that I learned about. some very hard lessons on evaluating precision and mechanics a few years ago and why you should never outright dismiss precision problems as mechanical problems, so I don't want to say that there is a fundamental magic solution for Mitch that will erase all his mistakes. throws in the future, but that being said, the guy really needs to clean up his hips during his throw, he's not doing himself any favors with bad mechanics and if anything, I think bad mechanics only make poor ball placement worse .

There was a shot against the Rams. Last season, Marcus Peters took him out and it was a good call for coverage, and his intended target, Josh Bellamy, was wide open, so I understand why he tried the throw in the first place, but on that attempt, Mitch sent him for Air mail. about four feet and he threw the ball directly to Peters, instead he wasn't hit during the throw, the pressure wasn't that bad, the ball wasn't tipped, he just missed and when you look at this pass mechanically speaking, most of it He looked good, his base is solid, not too narrow nor too wide so he doesn't walk too far or too far when he steps towards the throw, his front knee and toe are facing his target and his outside elbow is tight to the ribs and not just flailing wildly. a chicken wing I mean, this seems like a solid throw for the most part, but everything good here is ruined by his bad hips as a quarterback when the ball goes up the ear hole of your helmet during a pass you have.

To have your hips fully rotated toward your target, you can't drag that back hip or back foot that far back because hip rotation is huge for generating speed, you walk your hips to bring your arm forward and you almost take the ball off. You Not the other way around because at the end of the day the lower part of your body is much, much stronger than the upper part so that's where you want to get most of your power from and if you don't believe me just look. on Peyton Manning and how he made the same type of throw to his left winger in Denver even though he obviously had considerably less arm strength and tries to get Biscay to notice the difference in how Manning generates power with his hips, not his arm, to be able to use your arm is more for touch and precision again, the front finger and front knee are open to the target like the real Vizcaya.

The outside elbow is close to the ribs for balance during hip rotation and the hips are completely around before the ball is level. With his hand, he's turning his body into a human whip with all that rotational energy traveling from the hips up the arm and through the ball as it's thrown, but if you contrast that with Travis Key here, Mitch doesn't get all of his hips . the way around to the same spot where Payton's are until the ball is already gone, there is the difference in both speed and control: a mechanically sound quarterback leads with his hips before releasing and a mechanically messy follows it with his hips afterwards. he releases, which causes these takedowns.

You see this problem every week with Mitch dragging that hip back during his throw. It's not just in this throat but every pitch in every game and all those bad pitches, his power had to come from his throwing arm. Keep generating velocity, that's really hard to do even when you're healthy, so when in Week 14 against the Rams, when he injured his throwing arm, it was even worse, remember he was still recovering from that injury in the shoulder at the time he suffered three. weeks earlier against Minnesota, so when in that Rams game he was putting the entire load of throwing power on an injured arm instead of simply using that arm to touch and control, it's no coincidence that Travis Keyes' worst game of the year in terms of accuracy it was the only game where his poor mechanics made his injury look and feel even worse to me, it was really hard to watch, but I don't want to give him a blanket excuse because even looking at the games before the injury, when he was still healthy, it was the same as bad hips and bad feet equals inconsistent accuracy, and ultimately that fundamental problem in my opinion is why I don't know what to think of him going forward.

I would absolutely make some of these tough throws on one play and then try to make the exact same throw later in the game and miss it by five yards, even if it was the same play design against the same coverage with the same wide receiver by the same amount. , if you have bad mechanics, it's really just a roll of the dice, whether you're going to make an accurate shot or not, in no way do I think Mitch is as naturally inaccurate as, say, Christian Hackenberg or Brock Osweiler, but any Whatever natural touch and feel he has on these passes is being neutralized by a crappy Throw and he has to fix it, if not for his own good then at least he has to do it for Anthony Miller's sake because I felt really bad because at that kid was robbed of over 300 extra yards in the season due to Mitch's poor throws.

This happened almost every week, but it doesn't end there because, as inconsistent as his accuracy was instant, so was his decision making, that was my other main problem I had with him on tape that made me think. he still had a long way to go, for some reason several times in a game he would make horrible, crazy decisions that would cost his team a lot or almost cost him a lot, even if it was a relatively simple route concept that I personally saw him read correctly many times. Times before, from time to time, he would get stuck in those same routine readings and open himself up to disaster for no apparent reason.

Take the Seattle concept, for example, which is a game design that Matt Naggy got from Andy Reed, who in turn got it from Mike Holmgren when he was in Green Bay Seattle is essentially a cleanup concept, it's a staple of the West Coast offense that's been around forever and when you run it from trips like the Bears here, it looks very similar to a sail concept that I've gone over many times before on this channel, the main difference with sail is that Seattle's concepts generally have double posts up front that act as decoys to take out these deep defenders instead of just an outlet via the inside post route. those two posts is what's called an alert in the play design and an alert is a route that is not necessarily the main read of the play, but it is the first read because the quarterback has to be alert enough and Read it to see if it is necessary.

Whatever the reason, the defense breaks their coverage and just lets this route run right behind them, you almost never expect it to be open, but if it is open you want to shoot while you can, so on this play Mitch takes a little look fast. to the inside post alert to see if he's getting open, which unsurprisingly he's not, and then moves on to his actual primary read of the play, which is Trey Burton's deep route. True Biscay is essentially reading off the numbers on the field to see if there is a hanging defender who could jump that deep, whether it's a curling underhook zone defender who can float back to undercut Burton or a hanging defender deep over the top that he could get back down to take it off, but luckily for Mitch there are no hanging defenders, by the way, who are in range to threaten Burton, so it's a super quick and easy read, and he throws a great ball to set up the layup for a lot of yards after the catch, this is easy, simple, and perfectly executed, and this is exactly what Matt Naggy expects to happen every time he calls a Seattle call against zone coverage, but three weeks later, somehow, Mitch completely collapsed while making the exact same read on the exact same play from the exact same formation against New England again, that inside post is just the alert here it's not the main read and he has his number three inside, which is Taylor Gabriel this time about to go wide on the exit route under those double posts, is the same thing, but for some reason Mitch doesn't come out of alert like he's supposed to and like you did in the past even though that post is bracketed literally all the time and you don't even get a chance to try.

Biscay doesn't actually turn to look that deeply until Gabriel is already out of his way. and he has a defender already recovering to undermine that route at this point, you can't throw deep because the window is closed, it's too late for the distance this ball has to travel. Mitch basically has to throw it just as he gets to the top. of him falling, so that's the main read designed, he has to make a decision on this route immediately and not be late or he can't throw it, he just can't and Mitch knows that he made a mistake because he immediately he left. from that late read that failed and tried to orchestrate a desperation throw to the pylon that was way off script, this play right here or lack of a play actually cost the Bears at least 15 yards and the drive stopped at a goal field instead of potentially Continuing with something else Altru Biscay had to do was simply read the play the same way he reads it every two weeks and the same way every other quarterback in this system reads it for 25 years and would have been fine if it weren't for some.

Which is why this is just what you do at least a few times during the game, you take a simple concept, you overthink it in your head trying to decide whether or not you can trigger an alert when you don't even need to, you slow it down and then has to try to play hero to get out of a hole in the middle of the play, which then causes more terrible mistakes. Thinking too much just absolutely paralyzes the process of it and I have no idea where this habit comes from because it appears at most. random and also at the most inconvenient times, you could see several other examples throughout the season where he makes positive wins from this same concept or very similar concepts and has no problem with it, but then for some reason Naggy does it. will call again against. the Patriots or the Bills and he totally falls apart.

My only theory on what causes Travis Keys' bad decisions and maybe this sounds strange because I can't think of anyone else who is like this is that he is noticeably worse on his back when everything is good. good and a noticeably better quarterback when everything goes wrong, if it's the second or third quarter or the Bears are in the lead and the game is going as planned, that's when mistakes happen, but if it's the fourth quarter and the Bears and they need Mitch to have some type of out of body experience and just play on instinct.

It's amazing again, I don't know why, but just watching his entire season, that's the pattern I noticed and that brings me to the last and Perhaps the most intriguing positive/negative trend I documented from last season is how he handles big moments versus how you handle the little moments. To me, Biscay becomes a better passer when he turns his brain off and turns it off more when the pressure is on. is in just look at the wild card game against the Eagles because that's probably the best example I can give about good Mitch versus bad Mitch with about six and a half minutes left in the fourth quarter with the Bears leading in the second tried.

He marked aconcept called spot excavation of training trips left the F movement empty. This was by far one of the most common pass plays called by the Bears last year, especially on second downs because it was one of their most reliable ways to gain yards against. any coverage they faced and in fact this was the fifth time they brought up this concept in this game alone, at this point the read on this play for Travis Key is really determined by how the defense responds to Tarik Cohen in the first place because He's usually the primary threat whenever he's on the field, as Cohen notes that the only two defenders who respond are Corey Graham and Malcolm Jenkins, who fill the dime linebacker role in this defense and what this tells Tripp iski is that the Eagles are going to be supporting Cohen inside and outside with both DBS to handle the option route he had been running out of the backfield all day.

They are making it very clear that they will take Cohen no matter what. which means that the real Vizcaya will have free rein to stress all the other parts of the defense where there is more one on one, so with Cohen. Getting the double now this simply becomes a game of finding the best matchup and the best matchup What's left on the field at least for me is Alan Robinson running the corner route under Avante Maddox, who is playing very, very soft so as not to go deep. Corner out is a read that you can throw right at the end of your drop to be able to get the ball out quickly and safely.

You don't have to wait for the dig in the back to develop and it's a very safe throw because you know. that no one is going to be floating in from below to undermine him because Cohen is still drawing that double, so before this ball breaks, Mitch has to know, based on his experience of running this dish literally every week and several times already in this Same game, you need. I throw it to Robinson just as he gets to the last step of his drop, but of course he doesn't, he looks at Kohen's option route like he always does, freezes when he double-teams and somehow doesn't see that coming right away. a mile away, he doesn't even look at Robinson before he panics, tries to run, and takes a terrible timing catch that basically ended the drive after the inevitable punt.

Philadelphia would then mount a 12-play drive of its own to regain the lead at this point. It was a really, really bad play and you could see in real time Mitch thinking too much without seeing the field and freezing when his team was in a strong conservative position where he just wanted to throw a little easy option route for some yards, no. It was like this. Until his team was in a desperate position down by one less than a minute ago a different trip, Iski, appeared and made one of his most impressive shots all year, ironically, on the exact same play he just missed, this it was with 44 seconds on the clock now on the bears next possession again on second and long and again upset he called that old reliable gun shot dig spot left this time without the F move the Eagles are in another zone defense it seems a shell too tall to be exact, and Mitch knows he has to work on the sidelines to preserve the watch as best he can.

He can't throw the defense up the middle because they only have one timeout left and he has to get a big chunk of it to try to get in. Field goal range, the only viable read on this play, just as it was on the previous series, is the corner route to Robinson, so he has to take the throw from him. It's now or never, he may have frozen up and failed when he wasn't under much pressure before, but in this big moment, the biggest of his career up to this point, he let it fly and put it right on the money.

I mean, this was a great location. I can't stress enough bad mechanics or not, he put that ball in a perfect position while he was receiving. Totally detonated by Chris Long, by the way, and if it weren't for Cody Parky being Cody Parky a few plays later, this throw would have been remembered as one of the biggest plays of the year by any quarterback. This pass is why Tripp Iski is so tough. to evaluate because if he had made the same pitch five minutes earlier to extend his final drive, he wouldn't have needed to be a hero in the first place.

The guy is a master at getting the Bears out of holes at the end of games because he is fantastic. under pressure, but I mean he's the one who digs half of those holes and puts himself under pressure in the first place, either he's very accurate and makes ridiculous shots down the field or he's making a screen pass in the dirt that's freezing when his first read isn't there and he gets a sack or he's cutting and cutting defenses without hesitation. He is terrible in the second quarter but phenomenal in the fourth. I just don't understand it, I really don't understand it and for all that I don't understand it.

I don't know what to do with him right now for the first time on this channel. I don't know how to project a player in the future. Could he fix the mechanics of it and become more precise? Sure he maybe he could do it another year on offense and another offseason. with the receivers of him maybe he will get rid of those brain freeze attacks that probably caused terrible decisions, but I don't know at this moment, today I can say that mr. Biscay is a good quarterback, I believe that 100%, but I can't definitively say that he will ever become a great quarterback for me.

He's the kind of guy that you can win a Super Bowl or multiple Super Bowls with if you have a good team around him, you just need enough talent on your roster to survive the problems that come with Mitch in the second quarter for the game. be close enough for Mitch to win in the fourth quarter and if that sounds like a terribly stressful experience for Bears fans to endure every Sunday. Well, I'm pretty sure the real Vizcaya is the only one keeping Goose Island in business right now, but despite all the mistakes and all the stress, the Bears win with Mr.

Biscay and many of those wins are because of him, they come out on top in tough, dirty, dirty games where it's all about who blinks first and I honestly don't think Chicago would have done it any other way because they have a quarterback who doesn't. I don't blink first, that's just Bears football to them, Mitch is perfect, no and he probably never will be, but I think he's perfect for the Bears and honestly, for now that's all that matters. Thank you very much for watching this week's episode. It's been a long time coming, so I really appreciate your support and I also appreciate the support of the brand that helped make this episode possible.

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