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Stop me if you’ve heard this before: The Chicago Bears have uncertainty at the quarterback position.
Following another unimpressive performance, starting quarterback Nick Foles was slammed to the turf and appeared to suffer a serious injury in the final minute of Monday night’s loss to the Minnesota Vikings. Foles was carted off the field, which certainly didn’t look good for the remainder of the season. But it was later revealed that Foles’ hip injury wasn’t as serious as initially believed.
But Foles’ status — as well as his performance over the last seven games — started the conversation about what Chicago should do at quarterback. Since replacing Mitchell Trubisky in Week 3, Foles hasn’t performed up to par.
Bears head coach Matt Nagy didn’t rule out making a switch at quarterback — that’s what happens when you’ve lost four straight games. But the concern remains the health of both Trubisky and Foles, who are nursing shoulder and hip injuries, respectively.
Former Bears center Olin Kreutz says, if it were him, he’d start third-string quarterback Tyler Bray over Trubisky against the Packers.
“I hate to say this, but who cares?” Kreutz said on the Football Aftershow. “Who cares if it’s Mitch or Bray? It should probably be Bray so you can see what you’ve got at your third string quarterback, since now for three years since Coach Nagy’s came here you haven’t brought another young quarterback to develop in your scheme.”
Let’s be honest, the real reason Bray has been in Chicago over the last three seasons has been because he knows Matt Nagy’s offense. He’s served as a coach of sorts. At this point, he’s nothing more than a career back-up who has spent the majority of his Bears career on the practice squad.
While Foles’ hip injury isn’t serious — he’s day-to-day and expected to miss a couple of weeks — there’s an argument to be made that the Bears should make the switch back to Trubisky. Not that Trubisky is the answer, but the offense did look slightly better than it has under Foles. Trubisky has the benefit of mobility, which helps with an offensive line that struggles in pass protection.
The Bears have a bye week to make another quarterback evaluation. Assuming both Trubisky and Foles are healthy, we’ll see if Nagy ultimately makes the decision to go back to Trubisky to try and find a spark on offense.
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