Chicago Bears: 3 things to address during the bye week
Continue down the same path offensively
It’s no coincidence that Trubisky’s best game of his career — by a mile — came after a week in which Nagy dialed back the offense and put a little less on his young quarterback’s plate.
Mitch’s early struggles were confounding for a few reasons. First, he struggled mightily with his accuracy which was one of his strengths coming out of college and demonstrated this trait most of last season. Second, he looked much more uncomfortable in the pocket, which again, was a departure from what fans saw last season.
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Part of Mitch’s early struggles was not necessarily indicative of being in a new offense. As I mentioned in an earlier piece, even when he made the right read, he was missing wide open receivers. However, I also wondered whether having too much to process too quickly was impacting these facets of his game.
This is why it was terrific to hear when Nagy announced that he was considering simplifying things and getting back to the things Mitch does well. Boy, was that a recipe for success, as Mitch exploded for a record-setting afternoon against the Buccaneers.
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— Rich Eisen (@richeisen) October 2, 2018
The hope, and quite frankly the expectation, is that Nagy will continue with this approach and slowly introduce the more complex pieces of his offense. In fact, he even said as much recently while he was a guest of the Rich Eisen Show. As it becomes clear this team is capable of making the playoffs with average quarterback play, Nagy must pull back and slow things down for Mitch which ironically will help him speed things up and play faster.