Why Mitch Trubisky Failed with the Chicago Bears- A Retrospective

hello and a special welcome to the disenchanted

bears

fans in my audience i have a special place in my heart for you tortured souls who sit on your couch every sunday and watch the

chicago

bears

play football i know it can't be easy for you guys for a franchise to have such an illustrious past and storyless present is just depressing and although I have touched bears for my own amusement in the past, today I cannot muster the desire to be petty because the truth is I am not angry i'm disappointed disappointed in the organization in hallis hall and disappointed in

mitch

ell

trubisky

so to untangle the mess of the last four seasons let's grab our paintbrushes and try to paint a picture of where the bears went wrong again but in to make sure that we're not stressing ourselves out as we look back at the

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It came as no surprise that the position needed a closer look. The first few moves on the surface were extremely strange, as after the departure of Jay Cutler, Pace signed Mike Glennon to a three-year, $45 million deal, but below initial endorsement-pace confidence votes. of the run, he had turned his attention to the 2017 draft, where the bassists had the number three pick and the pace had almost complete control of who the top three quarterbacks in the class would be. cks were the wishes of clemson, patrick mahomes of texas tech and

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ell trubisky of north carolina but quickly trubisky seemed to pull away from the group and control his mind i mean it was so clear the bears didn't even have dinner with wish watson instead , the pace went wild from Trubisky's seeming precision his in-the-pocket poise his directness and pretty soon there was only one quarterback at the top of the Chicago backboard looking back, of course it's easy to laugh at that assessment, but none of the top three prospects were ever seen as a home run pick trubisky was considered the most talented pocket passer but he only started 13 games at unc and went 8 and 5 in them mahomes was a creative gunslinger but was very concerned about how much of that wouldn't translate to the nfl and watson had made electric plays on the nation's biggest stages but still had concerns regarding its durability and 30 i Headline interceptions, obviously now, at the time this video comes out, there's everything then, a situation that complicates things even more in retrospect, but of course nothing related to that was known at the time, however, the general point is that this was a class where you had to decide your shot and pace, who was a scout for the saints when they arrived.

Drew Brees was sure he had similar talent in Mitch Trubisky, so he was confident that they would, in fact, unload two third rounds and a fourth round to move up just one spot to number two, ensuring that Trubisky wouldn't fit in anywhere except on Chicago, but despite the champagne bottles. that they were being drafted into an organization ready to throw their weight behind this north carolina kid sure there was an odd lack of consensus about where the franchise was headed head coach john fox wasn't told the bears would take A quarterback until just hours before draft Mike Glennon, who was promised the wheel by Pace a month earlier, only watched the Bears draft his replacement and the Bears' understandably jaded fan base, many of whom were e hoping for a defensive piece like jamal adams were divided in the movement surrounding trubisky's arrival, to say the least, despite pace's confidence in having secured the franchise's savior, instability between management and the coach created a clear division in trubisky's approach and development while pace would have liked his young quarterback to learn a year on the bench fox was e spurred on by mike glennon's horrible play to start him in just week five his play as a rookie was pedestrian but hey at least the wheels didn't I'm not entirely sure he had a game where he completed four of seven passes but The Bears won that game, so 2017 set the stage for the Bears to look competitive for once, but it wasn't until 2018 that Trubisky's expectations catapulted into the stratosphere.

It all started with the hiring of Matt Nagy, a disciple of Andy Reed Coaching Tree, who seemed ready to bring new life to the stagnant pond that had always been the bear's offense. and still utterly convinced ryan pace was ready to put all his chips in his hand-picked quarterback alan robinson would give mitch an elite weapon on the outside trey burton was a versatile tight end taylor gabriel provided the deep speed he needed so badly needed all those pass catchers were signed the following offseason but that wasn't even the end of it, each season it became clearer that the budding superstar quarterbacks on his rookie deal were the most valuable ace you could have Up his sleeve and pace he believed he had one, so he beefed up a charged defense to set the team's ambitions to win a Super Bowl Now, early in 2018, Trubisky started slow and was by no means perfect, but his swings between high and low low seemed to even out as he became more familiar with the nike system no doubt helped by the best defense in the nfl always giving him the esp alda not to mention occasionally also gave bears fans something they hadn't felt in a long time in the form of genuine bl iss watching trubisky torch the buccaneers for five first half touchdowns felt like he had arrived like the future of the bears and though he would be overshadowed by some ketchup obsessed guy later in the season if nagi's system was that electric with tricks and aggressive calls at the forefront then the best had to be yet to come of course 2018 It didn't end the way Chicago hoped it would and since we're creating a loving environment today we're just not going there but once the pain eased the anguish gave way to hope again naggy and pace won as coach and executive of the year and with his return the bears had every reason to believe the team was ready to run just in time for its 100th season the defense returned most of the foot whoops and offense would unravel new folds with trubisky nagi 202 as dubbed obsessed with a touchdown to control progression involved hitting the big play when he was there nagi was ready to unleash his own mahomes on the nfl the hype was magnificent and absolutely none of it translated with the nation watching on opening night against the packers trubisky looked totally incompetent missed shots missed excellent field position and threw a game overhead interception to former bear adrian amos in the back corner of the zone scoring cemented a 10-3 loss.

It was demoralizing, but one game doesn't end a season. They won the next three despite Trubisky picking up an injury along the way, but coming off his bye week, the cracks didn't close. In fact, they went wide against a Saints team missing Drew Brees and Alvin Kamara Trubisky made Bears fans want to start back up by failing to get a first down on five of seven first-half possessions. and losing 36-20 in a game that was much less close than the scoreline indicated the following week against a battered Chargers team, Trubisky again couldn't make the plays he needed to give away the ball twice in the fourth quarter of a game. game.

They would lose 17-16 on a missed field goal as the year wore on and the Bears soared to 8-8. The media machine that had been given championship expectations wanted answers as to who was to blame. For one thing, Trubisky wasn't the only thing wrong. The bear's offense with Nagy received a lot of criticism for not adapting to his team's struggles and instead remaining stubbornly dedicated to his Kansas City-style offense, but while it's easy to criticize a coach for not putting their players in the right positions, what happens when they directly, don't run the bear's offensive line that was cut from their game in 2018, doing them few favors in running game protection, but more than anything, the quarterback nagi's third year didn't rise to the occasion for a quarterback to move up from a player who doesn't lose games to a player who can win them himself.

The minor flaws they enter the league with have to gradually evaporate, but for Trubisky they got worse, sure Nagi could have. I ran to his quarterback more or called for more play action, but Mitch had issues that couldn't be remedied simply with play calls, he didn't trust a clean pocket and constantly played nervous footwork, staring at his targets and The result is constant inaccuracy issues when passing the ball over receivers that stem from his throwing and just a general inability to process coverages quickly that he himself would admit to compounding the issue. All of these struggles that seem strange on the surface belie a lack of confidence and ability to read and execute at an NFL level, yes some of these things could be helped by nagi or should have been fixed by qb coach dave ragon but three seasons into a guy's career if he's as inconsistent and squeamish as he was in his rookie season then something is wrong nagi and trubisky's relationship soured throughout 2019 for obvious reasons and things became Quickly into a goose egg debate over who he was is causing the other to appear incompetent at his job upstairs, now he's forced to face reality, his unmissable prospect could just be a dud.

He emerged from a stuffy offseason contest as a starter, but despite going 2-0 through three weeks, his continued inconsistency and errant plays would bench him for colts halfway through the next game and he would spend the next seven weeks watching from the touchline. Foles proved equally incapable of running offense and Trubisky would return as the starter following the team's purchase to continue a three-game streak of beating down horrible defenses with reinvigorated plays from bill laser, there were suddenly questions about whether Trubisky was salvageable. but very soon he would return to earth with the bears barely entering the playoffs at 8-8 due to expansion to the playoff field for the trubisky last dance they traveled to new orleans for the wild card round and the game aired on nickelodeon even though it was probably an fcc violation to show the bears football two kids so young it was actually quite entertaining but mitch trubisky was no

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he only had 140 yards and only one field goal to show for the whole the game until at least this is my theory mitch heard he was advancing in the nvp first award voting and decided to give the crowd a 99 yard touchdown to show your appreciation and look I don't think I'm breaking my own rules about trying to be nice here because I think any bear fan will agree this was the best thing to happen in the 2020 season that's where we got the trophy here. mr mitch strabiewski is the winner but that was the end the mitchell trubisky era would end not in confetti but in slime the bears didn't trywaiving trubisky in the coming months and quietly signing a deal with buffalo to back a player many feel is on the trajectory he was supposed to be on in josh allen now chicago fans are being forced to settle for another placeholder quarterback in andy dalton renewing the purgatory cycle for at least another season as the bears have now to deal with the cap implications of going all in on trubisky but as friends here to try to learn from this tragedy what conclusions are really valuable, well, clearly there is no way to look at trubisky's career without first seeing the success of the comrades recruited after him. and people use that to defend mitch in a way that i can understand that it's not mitch's fault that ryan pace had such a crush on him that he traded and made a ton of noise about how he got the perfect quarterback despite that red flags were there from the start. ck's coaching staff was left in the dark during the process, they also had no vested interest in developing him as much as they did in saving their own skin, so maybe there's a lesson out there in kind of have a unified view of where things are going and i don't think i need to remind you what it might look like a big media market like chicago is always going to favor immediate calls for change to practice patience but trubisky never indicated otherwise other than that he was a hard-working, self-motivated team leader who said all the right things and approached being a professional in the right way, that's not to say that he was The noise didn't affect it, but it certainly isn't. why he didn't live up to his pedigree, no matter what excuses you want to make regarding his development, play calling scheme fits, etc.

The cold truth is that Trubisky simply doesn't have the tools to be an elite quarterback and no amount of revisionist history changes that fact for being the prospect touted as an accurate reader of the coverages; it's none of those things four years into his career in every season so far, he's seen the same issues go unresolved from mechanics to precision decision-making to pocket confidence to wrong calls and poor execution they're just part of who trubisky is he may be the reason the game is won sometimes but most of the time the game has to be won despite him mitch has the volatility of jameis winston with none of the fun his floor is higher but his ceilings are much lower the difference is the bears have been good enough to carry him when he collapses and ultimately that's the hardest thing to swallow ryan pace made the right bet trying to capitalize on a deal rookie and filled the roster with help but point blank went all out to the wrong guy the bears ranked 1st and 10th in defensive dvoa in 2018 and 19 while their offenses ranked 20 & 25 2020 reaffirmed also their defense ranked 8th despite their own struggles but you just can't win like that in the modern NFL sorry and I know 1985 is all that matters but defense alone already it can't take you to a championship. ter if that's chicago football or it's not right look mitchell trubisky is a fiasco no one denies it and it sucks but he was 29 and 21 as a starter with two playoff appearances so it could have been much worse and for that reason the story trubisky's isn't over yet but neither is yours chicago because at the end of the day you have to remember one thing there are no mistakes just happy little accidents