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  • Dec 30, 2019

    Mitch Trubisky made Bears' decision for them, but will Ryan Pace pull the trigger?

    One time-honored NFL bromide is that coaches don’t make personnel decisions; players ultimately make them with their performances. Bears GM Ryan Pace now has a franchise-grade decision to make at quarterback, although Mitch Trubisky in fact has made it for him. To many observers, Trubisky has played his way out of the Bears picking up his fifth-year option and...

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  • Dec 23, 2019

    Bears' Matt Nagy still has some things to learn from his mentor, Andy Reid

    When Matt Nagy was offensive coordinator for the Kansas City Chiefs back in 2017, he and his staff would convene to watch college film of Patrick Mahomes, then the quarterback at Texas Tech. They, along with head coach Andy Reid and the personnel department, liked what they saw, to the point of trading up from No. 27 to No. 10…

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  • Dec 10, 2019

    Bears' Anthony Miller earning Mitch Trubisky's trust at the right time

    With Mitch Trubisky playing tentatively at times this season, the automatic assumption was that the problem was entirely with the Bears quarterback. That’s not entirely true. “Don’t surprise your quarterback” is a wide-receiver commandment, and the fact is that Trubisky was hampered early this season by his receivers’ poor routes, drops or both all too often. That led to...

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  • Dec 10, 2019

    Would you believe J.P. Holtz and Jesper Horsted are keys to resurgent Bears' O?

    One obvious question hovering in the afterglow of the Bears’ breakout offensive performance against the Dallas Cowboys last Thursday is: Where has THIS been? Quarterback Mitch Trubisky and coach Matt Nagy looked more in sync than at any other time in recent memory. So here’s a deeper question: How did that happen? The answer may be as simple as...

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  • Dec 8, 2019

    Bears head coach Matt Nagy is beginning to find his identity

    What the Bears did to the Dallas Cowboys in Thursday’s 31-24 defeat of the NFC East leaders was significant because of the complete offensive performance. Based on quality of opponent, gravity of game and player performance, it was quarterback Mitch Trubisky’s career-best game. The 31 points scored by the offense was the most since the mauling of a JV...

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  • Dec 6, 2019

    Mitch Trubisky's domination of the Cowboys hints at consistency in the future

    The Bears’ win over Cowboys a true turning point for Trubisky  Matt Nagy had it wrong. After Mitch Trubisky had rallied for a fourth-quarter comeback against the inept Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving Day, Nagy treated himself and his quarterback to a spot of gush: “Today was Mitch’s day,” Nagy declared. No. THIS Thursday was Trubisky’s day, a moment when...

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  • Dec 4, 2019

    Cowboys, rest of schedule confront Mitch Trubisky with top defenses, a career shortcoming so far

    The quarterback and head coach get more credit or blame than they usually deserve for success or failure on NFL football fields. Such has been the case for the 2018 Bears, when offense-based Matt Nagy was NFL Coach of the Year because of an elite defense, and 2019 Bears, when quarterback Mitch Trubisky has been battered on and off the…

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  • Dec 2, 2019

    For Bears, this Monday Night Football is absolute must-see TV

    Set aside all of the speculation about Mitch Trubisky’s future, Akiem Hicks’ impact, Roquan Smith’s re-emergence, all of that stuff. Even the Dallas Cowboys for the moment. Because the at-hand Monday Night Football game with the Minnesota Vikings in Seattle to face the strangely enigmatic Seahawks is suddenly of very vital interest to the Chicago Bears. If Minnesota comes...

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  • Dec 3, 2019

    A fourth-quarter Bears reset but cautionary tales abound along with major need for perspectives

    Winning three of their last four allowed the final four games/quarter of the Bears’ 2019 season to actually matter, at least statistically since a 6-6 record. Their quarterback is playing better than he had in the second quarter of the season; the Minnesota Vikings are readying for a night game Monday at Seattle and could end the weekend just two…

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  • Nov 29, 2019

    Biggest Bears '19 disappointment: NFC was there for the taking, and Bears couldn't ​​​​​​​

    Might-have-been’s aren’t always particularly useful but in the case of the 2019 Bears, standing 6-6 heading into their season’s fourth quarter, maybe… Because the reality for the Bears is that the NFC was theirs for the taking beyond any real or fanciful expectations that 2018’s misleading 12-4 produced. The supposedly first-place schedule that last year handed them turned out...

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