Why are the Chicago Bears hiding their quarterbacks?

Are the Chicago Bears hiding their quarterbacks?

The Chicago Bears quarterbacks are champing at the bit to begin the competition that will determine next year’s starter. Just ask Mitchell Trubisky and Nick Foles. Oh wait — you can’t do that because the team has yet to make them available, which is leading some to wonder why?

In fairness, both players were scheduled to speak to the media on June 3rd, but the team postponed those calls, only stating that they would be rescheduled for a date later in the month.

Then word came today that the team will make a number of players available via Zoom calls this week. They include Matt Nagy, Eddie Jackson, Roquan Smith, and Eddy Pineiro, among others.

Notably absent from the list? You guessed it — Trubisky and Foles.

Why haven’t Chicago Bears made the QBs available?

But why? The constant refrain virtually coming out of Halas Hall has been transparency about the quarterback competition. However, that transparency doesn’t seem to apply to those outsides the confines of Halas Hall.

However, the team has also emphasized how well each quarterback is handling the quarterback competition. Nagy and Ryan Pace have constantly reiterated how well Trubisky is handling the competition — that he is tackling it “head-on” and “understands it” the need for it. For all the talk that he is handling it really well, none of it has come from Mitch.

The only time we’ve heard Mitch talk since Foles was acquired was during a softball interview with his friend Chase Daniel, which didn’t even broach the subject.

If you are a skeptic by nature, you’ll see this as another attempt by the Bears to insulate their quarterback from scrutiny. Despite their insistence that Trubisky has demonstrated mental toughness throughout this period, they apparently don’t want that tested — at least not at the moment.

In my opinion, they are doing Trubisky and themselves a disservice. The team has handled him with care his entire career and that approach has failed them.

Now, with one final opportunity to learn who Trubisky is, they need to take the gloves off for good. You can’t coax mental toughness into a player, and the Bears are going to learn that lesson one way or another — hopefully, before it’s too late.