Chicago Bears: “Bread and butter” turns to “oil and water.”

It was more of the same from the Chicago Bears offense, as they sputtered against the Green Bay Packers.

If prior to last night I had told you that the Chicago Bears would hold the Green Bay Packers to 10 total points in their season opener, you’d have bet the farm on the Bears at -3. Surely the offense was going to score more than 10 points. I mean, you had Mitchell Trubisky in year two of the offense, with the added weapons of Cordarrelle Patterson, David Montgomery, and Mike Davis. You also had an increased focus on what Nagy called their “bread and butter” plays.

After last night though, Nagy may want to consider renaming them his “oil and water” plays considering none of them came together or resembled anything that you would describe as “effective.”

There was plenty of blame to go around too. For starters, Nagy’s playcalling was inexcusable. When you take steps to bolster your run game in the offseason, and then follow those moves up with 12 total runs in a one-score game, it’s unacceptable. Furthermore, when you have 3rd and less than a yard on two separate occasions and choose to run Patterson and throw a quick pass to the flat to Adam Shaheen instead of handing it to Montgomery to move the chains, it’s inexcusable. And where the heck were Tarik Cohen and Anthony Miller and why were they not targeted more often? This is all to say nothing of the two perplexing delay of game penalties.

Although Matt LaFleur was the rookie head coach with minimal experience, Nagy looked like the deer in headlights.

But it wasn’t all on Nagy. The Bears offensive line was almost as bad. Penalties, missed assignments, and miscommunication was far too prevalent for a unit that should be one of the most reliable components of the team after the defense. That has to change.

Speaking of change — or lack thereof — it was more of the same from Mitchell Trubisky. The entire fan base wants so desperately to get behind this guy and cheer him on as he finally gives the Bears stability and top-tier play at the quarterback position. But so far, he has not demonstrated anything to make fans believe that will happen. He has flashed potential at times, and giving you flashes that make you optimistic, but this was the year he was supposed to put it all together.

If that’s the case, then last night wasn’t an encouraging start. Trubisky showed the flaws that were far too prevalent last season but were supposed to disappear this season. He continued to make poor pre-snap and post-snap reads, failed to go through his progressions, and forced more incomprehensible throws into windows that weren’t there, bypassing open wide receivers in the process.

Trubisky started similarly last year but at least he had the excuse of it being his first game in a new offense. There are no more excuses this season. There are no more training wheels. There is no more explaining his deficiencies or flaws. Trubisky has to step up, and perform, or the harsh reality is the Bears will be back in the mode of looking for a new quarterback — territory they are far too familiar with.