The Chicago Bears are left with little to show for 2019. They had their chances to get into the playoffs and didn’t take advantage of enough of them. Nobody has endured more scrutiny for this failure than Mitch Trubisky. The 25-year old quarterback was expected to take a step forward in the offense after such a promising first year, making the Pro Bowl as an alternate. Instead, he regressed in every category from passing yards to touchdowns and completion percentage.
This has led plenty of people to begin questioning where things went wrong. Typically a quarterback is supposed to get better the longer he’s in an offense, not the opposite. Theories tend to center around the obvious ideas. His pass protection wasn’t good enough. The array of weapons wasn’t adequate. He had no running game to help him. The play calling by head coach Matt Nagy was awful. Others simply say defenses figured out how to play him and he hasn’t been able to adjust.
Some fans though think the problems actually started earlier than that. They fear his lack of success comes from concentration issues. What from? None other than the arrival of a new girlfriend this past offseason by the name of Hillary Gallagher. The two first came to the forefront back in February and it seems their connection ran back the previous December according to her Instagram.
Is this Mitch Trubisky theory valid in the slightest?
It’s easy to blame anything and everything when a player struggles. Aaron Rodgers started dating Danica Patrick in February of 2018. Before that, his passer rating was 104.7. Since then it has sunk to 97.7. Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo had similar criticisms when he dated former music star, Jessica Simpson. The two became an item towards the end of November in 2007. Prior to that, the QB had a 107.1 passer rating. Over the final four games, that tanked to 70.3. The next year, Romo had one of his worst seasons. Then he immediately improved after breaking up in 2009.
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Coincidence?
Yeah probably. It’s easy to put the blame on Gallagher because she’s one of the things that changed in Trubisky’s personal life during the offseason. Change is a bad thing in the minds of football fans and so she is the reason he has stunk because his focus isn’t where it needs to be. This despite constant insistence from teammates and coaches that his focus has never once wavered at any point this year.
The truth is there is no easy answer to why the Bears QB hasn’t fulfilled his potential. There will never stop being theories. One just hopes most of them are a little more realistic.
