Post by JABF on Nov 4, 2019 8:27:12 GMT -6
This isn't a hate Mitch article. Not at all.
Personally, I've felt that there have been a few times in the past Bears history where the QB was being harmed by not benching him. It can be argued that Mitch needs game reps (I argued that earlier in the season). But sometimes a QB is at a point where it is merciful to end the misery and bench him - because you are not helping the kid by letting him twist in the wind like this. I think in Mitch's case (a kid who clearly is scared and crapping the bed repeatedly) you are just risking ruining him permanently. No good comes of letting him continue like this. It's cruel... and frankly stupid to continue to march him out there to crap the bed on gamedays.
I also (very much) worry that Nagy is going to lose this team just as Marc Trestman did if he doesn't handle this decisively. JMO. Maybe I'm wrong... I'm wrong a lot about the Bears. But my gut feeling is that the locker room won't hold together - and that is on Nagy, not Mitch.
LINK
Make it three weeks in a row that coach Matt Nagy has been asked if he considered or will consider a quarterback change.
The Bears coach was asked after the terrible loss to the Saints, then again after Mitch Trubisky’s two fourth-quarter turnovers cost the Bears against the Chargers. He was asked after the game here as Mitch Trubisky completed only 10 passes.
“No,” Nagy said. “I didn’t. I think for all if us, we knew that we could collectively be better.”
I don’t see the Bears making a switch to backup Chase Daniel this week. They’re massively invested in Trubisky, and general manager Ryan Pace and Nagy, to a lesser extent, are connected to the quarterback. But I also don’t see Nagy being able to make it through the second half of the season with weekly questions about the status of his starting quarterback if the results don’t improve. Because the players in the locker room, if they’re not already doing so, soon will ask the same questions privately … then perhaps publicly.
The Bears can’t keep saying the same things every week. There are throws Trubisky needs to make, such as the deep shot to an open Allen Robinson that was underthrown. He has to be better. The Bears talk about needing steady, incremental improvement. Instead, it just keeps getting worse. Everyone gets that quarterback development is a delicate process and time is needed. But how much longer can they watch Trubisky’s clear regression?
There’s probably concern about how much Daniel can do. The last time he played the offense was shut out in the first half by the Raiders, the same thing the Eagles did to the Bears here. But Daniel can at least move the ball a little more, right? The Bears gained 164 total yards against the Eagles in the game, and that’s not a good half.
Make it three weeks in a row that coach Matt Nagy has been asked if he considered or will consider a quarterback change.
The Bears coach was asked after the terrible loss to the Saints, then again after Mitch Trubisky’s two fourth-quarter turnovers cost the Bears against the Chargers. He was asked after the game here as Mitch Trubisky completed only 10 passes.
“No,” Nagy said. “I didn’t. I think for all if us, we knew that we could collectively be better.”
I don’t see the Bears making a switch to backup Chase Daniel this week. They’re massively invested in Trubisky, and general manager Ryan Pace and Nagy, to a lesser extent, are connected to the quarterback. But I also don’t see Nagy being able to make it through the second half of the season with weekly questions about the status of his starting quarterback if the results don’t improve. Because the players in the locker room, if they’re not already doing so, soon will ask the same questions privately … then perhaps publicly.
The Bears can’t keep saying the same things every week. There are throws Trubisky needs to make, such as the deep shot to an open Allen Robinson that was underthrown. He has to be better. The Bears talk about needing steady, incremental improvement. Instead, it just keeps getting worse. Everyone gets that quarterback development is a delicate process and time is needed. But how much longer can they watch Trubisky’s clear regression?
There’s probably concern about how much Daniel can do. The last time he played the offense was shut out in the first half by the Raiders, the same thing the Eagles did to the Bears here. But Daniel can at least move the ball a little more, right? The Bears gained 164 total yards against the Eagles in the game, and that’s not a good half.