Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2017 21:42:57 GMT -6
The more Mitch Trubisky talks, the dumber the Bears look
The more you listen to Mitch Trubisky, the dumber the Bears sound.
Trubisky doesn’t mean to have it come out stupid. It just does. Because it always seems to come out that way when Bears get involved with quarterbacks.
Trubisky said Tuesday he’s getting snaps with the second string because Mark Sanchez suffered an injury and he might be getting more snaps than before.
Just in case you didn’t think the Bears’ quarterback plan wasn’t the dumbest thing, let’s recap:
Trubisky, the quarterback for whom the Bears stunningly traded up from third overall to second because he apparently has what GM Ryan Pace believes is generational talent, was buried with the third-stringers because the Bears ranked Sanchez, a guy who’s hopeless or useless, take your pick, ahead of him.
That’s some thinking, huh?
But wait. There’s more. Trubisky and Sanchez were slotted behind Mike Glennon, an $18 million placeholder who has thrown 11 passes since 2014 but was declared the starter because, I don’t know, the Bears don’t believe in competing, and their three wins last year might underscore that.
Look, the snaps Trubisky gets now are still fewer than he ever should’ve been getting under this cockamamie plan. Sanchez was never going to play for this team in a game unless the Bears decided to tank for the top draft pick in 2018.
What’s more, if the Bears were going to pay such a premium for a quarterback in the draft, then Glennon shouldn’t have been signed and declared the starter because Glennon was always going to take snaps that had a better future with Trubisky.
And that’s what the Bears seem to have Glennon doing.
Glennon has to get the majority of snaps because he, like Trubisky, wasn’t here last year to sop up all the football nutritiousness contained in a Dowell Loggains playbook, and so, the Bears have two guys who don’t know the offense, but the guy getting the most snaps and the snaps with the first-string is not the guy who was brought in to own the position for 10 years.
After Tuesday’s practice, Trubisky said he was “born” to play quarterback. Just not this year, apparently. I guess the Bears don’t think the quarterback who’s the absolute best in the draft is ready to play, so he’s not going to play this year, and then when he plays next year he still won’t be ready because the Bears promised Glennon he could play this year, no matter what the smarter move is.
I guess it’s not a surprise how Pace’s and John Fox’s Bears have won just nine games in two years.
Trubisky needs all the snaps he can get with the best players who stumble into Bears uniforms. He was drafted for what he can become in a league that looks for quarterbacks born in mangers, so why wait?
Maybe this plan works out perfectly for the Bears and Trubisky is terrific next season despite plans to prevent him from playing with the adults this season. I’ll concede that possibility, even if I have zero faith it’ll happen because this appears to be a perfect new chapter in this franchise’s storied history at the game’s most important position:
Only the Bears can make the biggest move of the draft to grab a quarterback of the future and then make sure they stunt his present.
Copyright © 2017, Chicago Tribune
The more you listen to Mitch Trubisky, the dumber the Bears sound.
Trubisky doesn’t mean to have it come out stupid. It just does. Because it always seems to come out that way when Bears get involved with quarterbacks.
Trubisky said Tuesday he’s getting snaps with the second string because Mark Sanchez suffered an injury and he might be getting more snaps than before.
Just in case you didn’t think the Bears’ quarterback plan wasn’t the dumbest thing, let’s recap:
Trubisky, the quarterback for whom the Bears stunningly traded up from third overall to second because he apparently has what GM Ryan Pace believes is generational talent, was buried with the third-stringers because the Bears ranked Sanchez, a guy who’s hopeless or useless, take your pick, ahead of him.
That’s some thinking, huh?
But wait. There’s more. Trubisky and Sanchez were slotted behind Mike Glennon, an $18 million placeholder who has thrown 11 passes since 2014 but was declared the starter because, I don’t know, the Bears don’t believe in competing, and their three wins last year might underscore that.
Look, the snaps Trubisky gets now are still fewer than he ever should’ve been getting under this cockamamie plan. Sanchez was never going to play for this team in a game unless the Bears decided to tank for the top draft pick in 2018.
What’s more, if the Bears were going to pay such a premium for a quarterback in the draft, then Glennon shouldn’t have been signed and declared the starter because Glennon was always going to take snaps that had a better future with Trubisky.
And that’s what the Bears seem to have Glennon doing.
Glennon has to get the majority of snaps because he, like Trubisky, wasn’t here last year to sop up all the football nutritiousness contained in a Dowell Loggains playbook, and so, the Bears have two guys who don’t know the offense, but the guy getting the most snaps and the snaps with the first-string is not the guy who was brought in to own the position for 10 years.
After Tuesday’s practice, Trubisky said he was “born” to play quarterback. Just not this year, apparently. I guess the Bears don’t think the quarterback who’s the absolute best in the draft is ready to play, so he’s not going to play this year, and then when he plays next year he still won’t be ready because the Bears promised Glennon he could play this year, no matter what the smarter move is.
I guess it’s not a surprise how Pace’s and John Fox’s Bears have won just nine games in two years.
Trubisky needs all the snaps he can get with the best players who stumble into Bears uniforms. He was drafted for what he can become in a league that looks for quarterbacks born in mangers, so why wait?
Maybe this plan works out perfectly for the Bears and Trubisky is terrific next season despite plans to prevent him from playing with the adults this season. I’ll concede that possibility, even if I have zero faith it’ll happen because this appears to be a perfect new chapter in this franchise’s storied history at the game’s most important position:
Only the Bears can make the biggest move of the draft to grab a quarterback of the future and then make sure they stunt his present.
Copyright © 2017, Chicago Tribune