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Yes and yes. I think with the whole QB competition in the shortened offseason, Trubisky was going to get to start regardless of how that turned out. So he "wins" the QB competition and it gives Foles more time to get comfortable within the offense. So in the first two weeks, Trubisky plays good football for 2 quarters out of 8. Then starts this game off with 2 bad quarters. So we are now at 2 good and 10 bad quarters of play. So once we got into the 3rd and he threw that pick, it was time to make the move. Here is the deal, he is a good kid, can be serviceable in the right offense, but is nothing more than a one read or half the field type QB. The minute the defense changes from zone to man or vice versa, he panics. He doesn't know what to do pre and post snap. He also has pretty bad long ball accuracy. So those are both terrible traits to have as a QB. He not only misreads plays, he makes inaccurate throws at the same time. That is exactly what happened on the INT. He throws it to the wrong player, normally into double or triple coverage. Also, think about when plays break down or the defense has it covered. Foles purposely throws the ball away, Trubisky still throws it and it normally gets the receiver killed or it's an interception. The only trait that Trubisky has over Foles is his running ability, but that can't be your #1 trait as a QB and that is all Trubisky has left. I would only use him in a Taysom Hill role when you want a gadget play. I also think Nagy has been secretly craving this move for a long time.
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Foles will get a week of practice before playing the Colts at home. I feel much more confident with him behind center and you can tell the receivers are excited based on the post game comments. The defense is still missing Goldman, they really could use another big body clogging up the running lanes. However, they held Ryan to 238 yards passing, which is very promising. Also, that includes 63 yards on one play. Outside of that one bomb, they held him to under 50% completion percentage and 175 yards.
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"Big D&%# Nick" comes up big. 2.5 quarters with Trubisky generated 10 points against a terrible Falcons defense. He also gave them great field position on his interception. 1.5 quarters with Foles generated 20 points. He also had a TD taken away when Dennard took the ball away from ARob in the end zone. So it could have been 27. Night and day difference running the offense.
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Sucks to see an injury on a fair catch. Thankfully he got a new contract before the injury. Hopefully he recovers quickly and is ready for next season. Now we need another RB for sure.
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So the Bears finally put together one TD drive, but only due to a complete breakdown in coverage on the Falcons. Trubisky gets 45 yards on a scramble to setup an easy TD to Graham. Then after stopping the Falcons and getting the ball back with timeouts and good field position, Trubisky can't hit a wide open Miller deep. I will say this is one of the most lopsided officiated games I have seen in a long time, and that is saying a lot. The Bears are getting called for penalties that they are not committing and the Falcons get called for nothing. Watch the Falcons long TD run by Hill. There are two holds right at the point of attack that opened up the hole, neither were called. Leno was called for a hold on a hook play, but it was more about his defender looking stupid trying to run around him. There is no way the Bears can beat the refs, if they don't call holding on the Falcons, it's game over. Nothing else even matters, because the Bears are playing shorthanded.
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Some promising notes about Trubisky, using the NextGen Stats, his average air yards to sticks is +1.8, tied for 3rd in the league. Traditionally Trubisky has had a negative value, meaning he was always throwing short of the sticks. Another one is aggressiveness, he is actually #2 in the league at 34.4%. So he is taking more shots down the field. Through 3 games this year, his numbers don't look much different than Mahomes or Watson's. That is all pointing to improve behind Center. Now we need a little more timing and feel for ball placement on certain routes, and we should see more improvement.
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So I saw an idea that might actually get some legs involving Nick Foles in the next few weeks. Very hypothetical. If the Bears beat the Falcons this week and go to 3-0 behind Trubisky and the Eagles somehow lose to the Bengals to fall to 0-3 with Wentz, do you consider trading Foles to the Eagles if they come calling? I don't think it would ever happen, but just for the sake of the discussion, what would you want in return for Foles? We sent a 4th to JAX but there was no leverage either way at that point. So to me, he is worth at least a 3rd, if not more at this point to the Eagles. So I was thinking of a 3rd and a 6th. We don't have a 4th or 7th next year, so adding a 3rd and 6th would be a nice haul to recoup some draft capital. That would turn a 4th into a 3rd and a 6th. You really can't beat that. What do you think?
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Damn, I noticed this out of the WR's but didn't think anything of it at the time. It might be the routes, but even on that Miller TD catch against DET, he had very little separation against a backup DB. With the amount of cushion Robinson gets you would think the catch rate would be a little higher. Both WRs are dropping a lot of balls. If you compare these players (CHI and MIA) with their QBs, then look at others around the league, I don't see any correlation between QB and separation. For once, it looks like Trubisky is not the main problem on offense. With the O-Line and running game going, it looks like the receiving corps is failing. At the same token, Trubisky's QBR is at 54.2, 23rd in the league behind Jeff Driskel and just ahead of Daniel Jones and Joe Burrow. We need him playing around #15 to have a chance at a playoff run.
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Yeah, I agree, but like in the Giants game, if Miller holds on to the TD pass that hit his hands, it's a blowout. A lot of games come down to one or two plays, there just not always at the end of the game like the Swift play. The ones at the end of the game are just magnified but have no more value than ones earlier in the game that might have had the same effect/result.