It’s been a busy week of training camp practice for the Chicago Bears this week. While the Bears didn’t practice in pads on Friday, it was still an eventful practice, especially as the quarterback derby between Mitchell Trubisky and Nick Foles continues.
We heard from Bears safeties Tashaun Gipson and Deon Bush, who are both competing for that vacant starting job. There were also some notable injuries during this fourth open practice, some minor and another season-ending.
Here are five takeaways from Chicago’s practice on Friday:
1. Mitchell Trubisky continues to impress more than Nick Foles
While it’s early, there’s a trend that’s been developing at these training camp practices with the quarterbacks. Trubisky put together a third straight solid practice, which has become the norm this week. Foles, who won Monday slightly, hasn’t been as impressive during these early practices.
To my kinda-trained eye, Mitch Trubisky looked better than Nick Foles today. Which continues a trend. https://t.co/dFLlpdZ5Yk
— Patrick Finley (@patrickfinley) August 21, 2020
Reports out of Friday’s practice were that Trubisky looked sharper, especially his accuracy. After a critical error on Thursday, where he ran out of bounds and took a sack, Trubisky threw the ball away in the same situation on Friday.
Foles hasn’t looked bad, but he hasn’t exactly impressed either. Foles and Trubisky have been praised for his decision making, but Foles didn’t match Trubisky’s accuracy in 7-on-7s on Friday. Although he was taking more chances down the field.
But it doesn’t mean anything at this point. It’s still early. We’re just three padded practices into this thing. Matt Nagy and quarterbacks coach John DeFilippo have stressed the importance of situational football, which we haven’t heard too much about. But once the situational stuff cranks up, that’s when these practices are going to start mattering even more.
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