The shine is rapidly coming off the apple for Mitch Trubisky. For all the talk about him being in “202” class for this Chicago Bears offense and having an entire offseason to improve, he had one of his worst game to date in the opener against Green Bay. He threw no TDs and one interception and almost had two others. He looked too much like a quarterback who wasn’t seeing the field well and relied way too heavily on his lifeline in Allen Robinson.
The way Green Bay Packers cornerback Tramon Williams says it, this was all according to the plan. The longtime veteran clearly showed a lack of respect of Trubisky with a comment after the game that certainly must’ve stung Bears fans. One that will remind them a bit too much of the one Charles Woodson made about Jay Cutler years ago.
Clearly the Packers aren’t impressed with what Matt Nagy and the Bears coaching staff have done with Trubisky. After last night it’s not hard to see why. The young quarterback finished with 45 pass attempts for 228 yards and an interception. He was also sacked five times. The Packers made sure to not give him many running lanes and squatted on almost everything the Bears tried to do around the line of scrimmage. Then they applied pressure and never let him get comfortable. It was a great game plan that was executed well.
Mitch Trubisky, to be fair, didn’t get much help
This game only continues to feed into the perspective that Trubisky can’t elevate his play against top opponents. His record in primetime speaks for itself: 7 games, a 3-4 record, 1,305 yards, 6 TD passes, and 9 interceptions. Top quarterbacks don’t look like that when the lights are on. Is he just not that good or is it more a psychological thing? Nobody can say for sure. Trubisky does seem to never be comfortable like he is in other games.
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Now one cannot and should not put the game entirely on him. He didn’t get a lot of help. He was sacked five times in the game. Matt Nagy ran the ball just 12 times and made some remarkably bad play calling decisions. There were lots of penalties too. Every receiver not named Allen Robinson was also practically invisible. It’s hard to do much of anything when those around you aren’t doing their part.
Trubisky gets most of the blame because he’s the quarterback. That’s fair. It is what he signed up for. He knows he needs to get better. If he doesn’t? Then some interesting decisions will need making after this season ends.
