Post by JABF on Dec 24, 2020 10:38:07 GMT -6
The more I see and hear about Mitch Trubisky post-benching, the more I think he has transitioned mentally to the NFL game. There is a learning curve for any QB coming out of college to the NFL and it seems to have been a bit steeper for Mitch who had minimal college starting experience prior to the Bears drafting him. But the light bulb seems to have switched on for him and the game slowed down for him too. It looks like he has ascended the toughest part of the learning curve at this point.
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Untethered, unfiltered: How Bears QB Mitch Trubisky changed his tone in 2020
Once Trubisky saw that the Bears were ready to move on from him, he realized his career was in his hands. That opened up a new aspect of his personality.
Bears quarterback Mitch Trubisky has been refreshingly real in the way he has talked about himself and the offense lately, but his emboldened attitude originated well before he returned as the starter.
Trubisky has been letting it fly — his version of that, at least, which is still somewhat restrained — ever since he realized he was on his own. It started when the Bears traded for Nick Foles and declined Trubisky’s fifth-year option in the spring, all of which left Trubisky “pissed off in a good way,” as he said in May.
There’s never been a question of Trubisky’s work ethic and motivation, but those moves delivered a wake-up call that nothing else could. He was no longer the franchise quarterback being carefully groomed with a host of hand-holding coaches dedicated to him making it. He became just another free-agent-to-be, battling Foles for the starting job and fighting to save his career.
That changed everything.
“I’m just trying to take control of my career and put it in the direction I want it to go,” Trubisky said. “Sometimes you gotta be a little more assertive and speak up for what you want to happen.
“Just continue to work hard, try to perfect my craft, get better each and every day, but there’s just a little switch that flipped in the beginning where I just had to get that edge a little bit to where I’ve gotta take control of my own destiny.”
Untethered, unfiltered: How Bears QB Mitch Trubisky changed his tone in 2020
Once Trubisky saw that the Bears were ready to move on from him, he realized his career was in his hands. That opened up a new aspect of his personality.
Bears quarterback Mitch Trubisky has been refreshingly real in the way he has talked about himself and the offense lately, but his emboldened attitude originated well before he returned as the starter.
Trubisky has been letting it fly — his version of that, at least, which is still somewhat restrained — ever since he realized he was on his own. It started when the Bears traded for Nick Foles and declined Trubisky’s fifth-year option in the spring, all of which left Trubisky “pissed off in a good way,” as he said in May.
There’s never been a question of Trubisky’s work ethic and motivation, but those moves delivered a wake-up call that nothing else could. He was no longer the franchise quarterback being carefully groomed with a host of hand-holding coaches dedicated to him making it. He became just another free-agent-to-be, battling Foles for the starting job and fighting to save his career.
That changed everything.
“I’m just trying to take control of my career and put it in the direction I want it to go,” Trubisky said. “Sometimes you gotta be a little more assertive and speak up for what you want to happen.
“Just continue to work hard, try to perfect my craft, get better each and every day, but there’s just a little switch that flipped in the beginning where I just had to get that edge a little bit to where I’ve gotta take control of my own destiny.”
