Mitch Trubisky truthers are inching closer to their preferred quarterback returning to the starting lineup after the former second overall pick of the 2017 draft spent the last seven games either serving as Nick Foles’ backup or sitting out altogether with a shoulder injury.
Now riding a four-game losing streak, the Bears may have no choice but to go back to Trubisky in an effort to jumpstart an offense that he previously stalled. According to coach Matt Nagy, the starting quarterback against the Packers in Week 12 is still undecided.
“It’s all on the table,” Nagy said.
Quarterbacks coach John DeFilippo said the expectation for Trubisky is that he’d play well if his number is called again.
“We want anybody who goes in there to go in and play well and execute the offense,” DeFilippo said. “It’s hypothetical for me to talk about how another player would go in and play, but our expectation level would be that [Trubisky] would go in there and play well.”
Foles hasn’t been doing that. For a nine-year veteran, his struggles are, in part, due to some basic, fundamental prerequisites of playing quarterback.
“There are times where maybe our base gets a little too wide,” DeFilippo said of Foles’ mechanics. “Or we’re trying to move in the pocket and our front shoulder gets too high and the ball sails on us. Or we don’t have a definitive reset. Those are examples of terms that we use in our room. So it’s a constant work-in-progress for sure. And Nick has been very, very open to all those things.”
A constant work in progress? This is the state of the Bears’ quarterback room, one that includes a player selected ahead of Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson and another who won a Super Bowl in 2017?
At this point, we know what this team is with Foles behind center. They aren’t very good. Trubisky, even with all of his shortcomings at the position, offers the Bears offense a higher ceiling and deserves the final six games of 2020.