Chicago Bears: 3 reasons for loss to the Giants
Missing Mitch
Mitch Trubisky has been very good this season, improving each game and exceeding my wildest expectations for this season. Yet there was still a small faction of Bears fans who continue to doubt him. There is even a smaller faction who had called for Chase Daniel to start early in the season — especially after his sterling performance in the third preseason game.
To those fans, I ask: “how much do you miss Mitch now?” Look, Chase is a very solid backup quarterback. He’s probably one of the best in the league. But there’s a reason he’s a backup, and it has less to do with talent and more to do with inconsistency. His inconsistency reared its ugly head yesterday.
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On the very first drive of the game, backed up in their own end of the field, Daniel threw an awful (and I mean crippling) interception to Alec Ogletree who promptly walked it into the end zone for a pick-six.
Then, early in the second quarter, the Bears were driving with the game tied 7-7. Daniel dropped back to pass on first down and had Tarik Cohen wide open on a seam. All he had to do was put a little touch on the ball. Instead, he threw it on a line and failed to recognize Ogletree jumping in front of the pass and once again intercepting Daniel.
At a minimum, they should have come away with three points. Add that to the pick-six and that’s 10 points Daniel was responsible for handing the Giants. In a three-point overtime game, those points were obviously huge.
Finally, there was the final drive in which Daniel had 19 fumbles. Alright, a slight exaggeration, but it felt like that didn’t it? Yes, Cody Whitehair‘s snaps weren’t great but Daniel should have caught all of them — even the ones earlier in the game. But he didn’t and put the team in bad down and distances in overtime.