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I keep wanting to talk myself into "Maybe Mitch can still be fixed. Drew Brees, Alex Smith, blah blah blah."

 

But the play at 2:24 of that video just kills me. Three step drop, his first read is wide open, he's looking right at Miller, and he just nopes and starts happy-feeting around. 33 games of NFL experience and he still doesn't know what he's seeing out there, just reacting randomly to things and hoping it works out.

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I keep wanting to talk myself into "Maybe Mitch can still be fixed. Drew Brees, Alex Smith, blah blah blah."

 

But the play at 2:24 of that video just kills me. Three step drop, his first read is wide open, he's looking right at Miller, and he just nopes and starts happy-feeting around. 33 games of NFL experience and he still doesn't know what he's seeing out there, just reacting randomly to things and hoping it works out.

 

 

the deep pass shows it, if it doesn't develop exactly as it was dialed up and wide open he cant decide what to do.

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I keep wanting to talk myself into "Maybe Mitch can still be fixed. Drew Brees, Alex Smith, blah blah blah."

 

But the play at 2:24 of that video just kills me. Three step drop, his first read is wide open, he's looking right at Miller, and he just nopes and starts happy-feeting around. 33 games of NFL experience and he still doesn't know what he's seeing out there, just reacting randomly to things and hoping it works out.

 

 

the deep pass shows it, if it doesn't develop exactly as it was dialed up and wide open he cant decide what to do.

That short stick route was exactly drawn up like it was supposed to. I don't recall issues like that last year. The second or third read being opening while he sat and took a sack, sure. But thus is something entirely new. The yips. Lack of confidence. Call it what you want but it seems to be a new regression above and beyond the averageness and inconsistency that existed last year.

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Because I'm a ghoul who feeds off of misery, I'm actually interested in the Bears now that they're broken. And because I'm an idiot, I'm enjoying the discovery of the genre of idiots breaking down film on Youtube.

 

I'm now convinced that Trubisky isn't The Problem. He's not a good starting QB, but he's being put in a situation uniquely designed to exploit his flaws. In a better situation, he could still be better than some of the 32 starters in the league each week.

 

The problem is this offense can't block. At all. They can't pass block, and they can't run block. The tackles have always been bad. The interior line is being burned consistently on anything that involves figuring out blocking assignments. And there's no help from secondary blockers. Burton is playing hurt, Shaheen is bad at football, Montgomery is good at most things but he's a big blocking downgrade from Howard, and Cohen isn't a real running back.

 

Trubisky cannot function with bad pass protection. The only two things he knows how to do when there's pressure are 1) dump it off way too early or 2) forget anything he has ever learned about the mechanics of throwing a football.

 

This team needs someone like Jay Cutler, who would throw for the same 3200 yards, 24 TDs and 16 INTs no matter how good or bad his surrounding cast was.

 

They need to take out everything from the playbook that involves weird misdirection trap-blocking, all the RPOs (that's Trubisky's other problem, he basically never makes the right decision on those), and everything that involves an empty backfield. There's no point in sending five guys on routes when Trubisky is only capable of reading two options and only has time to read one.

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Because I'm a ghoul who feeds off of misery, I'm actually interested in the Bears now that they're broken. And because I'm an idiot, I'm enjoying the discovery of the genre of idiots breaking down film on Youtube.

 

I'm now convinced that Trubisky isn't The Problem. He's not a good starting QB, but he's being put in a situation uniquely designed to exploit his flaws. In a better situation, he could still be better than some of the 32 starters in the league each week.

 

The problem is this offense can't block. At all. They can't pass block, and they can't run block. The tackles have always been bad. The interior line is being burned consistently on anything that involves figuring out blocking assignments. And there's no help from secondary blockers. Burton is playing hurt, Shaheen is bad at football, Montgomery is good at most things but he's a big blocking downgrade from Howard, and Cohen isn't a real running back.

 

Trubisky cannot function with bad pass protection. The only two things he knows how to do when there's pressure are 1) dump it off way too early or 2) forget anything he has ever learned about the mechanics of throwing a football.

 

This team needs someone like Jay Cutler, who would throw for the same 3200 yards, 24 TDs and 16 INTs no matter how good or bad his surrounding cast was.

 

They need to take out everything from the playbook that involves weird misdirection trap-blocking, all the RPOs (that's Trubisky's other problem, he basically never makes the right decision on those), and everything that involves an empty backfield. There's no point in sending five guys on routes when Trubisky is only capable of reading two options and only has time to read one.

I think it's a combo of bad play calling that doesn't help mask his deficiencies and him literally breaking at some point this season, perhaps thanks to Nagy. I had rewatched the GB tape and felt it was almost all on Nagy and the OLine. The caveat being that some of the play calls looked so awful theres a good chance, and some evidence, the issue was Mitch calling terrible audibles. After GB Nagy seemed to way over adjust to it all, but didn't really do anything different to help Mitch and play to strengths and weaknesses just dumbed everything way down and took everything away for DEN. I'm sure the plan was then to slowly add back up to "offense 202" , and there was a slight loosening in the reigns against WAS, then Mitch gets hurt and his first game back Nagy goes into this pass happy overdrive Mitch is again ill equipped to run and a few weeks later Mitch still seems broke. Other QB may have dealt better with it, but Mitch seems to lack confidence right now and he doesn't have nearly the QB skills to compensate for it AND Nagy still seems intent he run his offense and not adjust it for Mitch at all, only dumb it down.

 

Also I have no idea if this is a real thing, but I was always super annoyed how overly conservative they were with Mitch in his first year re: interceptions, and not wanting Mitch to turn the ball over and felt that it could interfere with his QB development. Here in year 3 he plays like a scared QB who only does one thing well- avoid interceptions. :?

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Any recommendation for a sports bar in Milwaukee to watch football tomorrow? Luckily packers play at 3.

 

If you're downtown, Who's on Third is probably the best.

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Adam Shaheen a healthy scratch.

 

Maybe more significant, Cody Whitehair and James Daniels appear to be switching positions again. Whitehair to C. Daniels to LG.

 

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The Bears will face off against something called a Jeff Driskel and if they don't thoroughly dominate him this defenses run is officially over. Blow it up.

 

FWIW, Driskel started 5 games for the Bengals last year, basically 6 since he played most of the game Dalton was injured in.

 

His stats last year:

 

60% comp %, 5.7 YPA, 6 TD, 2 INT

 

Mitch’s stats this year:

 

63% comp %, 5.6 YPA, 5 TD, 3 INT

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Bears had nobody back to receive the punt? I realize the Lions switched at the last minute but it’s further proof that the coaching is horrible for the Bears.
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Driskel is fast enough that he can simply run out of the pocket when he can’t find an open guy, and it’ll be plenty good enough to beat the Bears.

 

Probably something like 13–7 or 17- 10 Lions.

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