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The Chicago Bears have chosen their starting quarterback in Mitchell Trubisky for the 2020 season. Although with Trubisky’s track record, the Bears are in this for better or worse. At least for the immediate future.
Trubisky beat out — aka won the tiebreaker over — veteran Nick Foles, who the Bears invested draft capital and $21 million guaranteed to bring to Chicago.
Neither Trubisky or Foles impressed during training camp, so it wasn’t exactly a surprise that Matt Nagy ultimately chose to go with the incumbent starter with a higher upside during an offseason where the only reps they could evaluate came in training camp.
While Trubisky won the training camp competition, it’s hard to believe that this battle is over. Especially given that Trubisky’s leash is going to be short given his past struggles and with a veteran that has proven to be most successful coming off the bench in Foles behind him.
We don’t know whether Trubisky will survive the entire season — or just how short that leash is — but the former No. 2 overall pick certainly has an easy go of it in the opening slate of the schedule.
The Bears won’t face a playoff team from a season ago for their first seven games — although they will see a new-and-improved Tampa Bay Buccaneers squad led by future Hall-of-Famer Tom Brady.
The first half of Chicago’s schedule is certainly favorable, but they’ll face a difficult stretch in the second half of the 2020 season, where they’ll face a playoff team in seven of their final nine games.
For Trubisky’s benefit, he does have one of the NFL’s top defenses to lean on and there’s nowhere for this offense to go but up. Not to mention he’ll get an opportunity to start hot against the Detroit Lions, a team that he has dominated in the previous three meetings, in Week 1. But that might not be enough to win games — or for Trubisky to keep his job.
What do you think, Bears fans? How many games will Chicago win with Trubisky under center in 2020?
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