Trubisky was somehow « caught off guard » by his Week 3 benching — no one else was — and now he gets a chance to win back his job.
Let’s cut through all the nonsense about how the last two months of sitting on the bench and running the Bears’ scout team has made Mitch Trubisky a better quarterback. He’s still the same player that has exasperated Bears fans and coaches most of his career, but right now, he’s the best they’ve got heading into their game at the Packers on Sunday. That doesn’t mean he’s going to turn them into a contender. It just means he’s better than Nick Foles. Officially, this move is because Foles has been out all week with a hip injury, but his recent performances merited a benching anyway. So Trubisky gets another chance, perhaps his last one, to win the job. As much as coach Matt Nagy kept steering the conversation back to Foles’ injury, he left it open-ended enough to reveal that Trubisky could reclaim the spot that was taken from him in the third game of the season. “More than anything, what means the most to me is just having an opportunity to come back and be there for my guys when we just need to find a way to win,” Trubisky said Friday. “Being back in the role that I am and being a leader on this team, it means a lot to me to have this opportunity to go into battle with my guys this weekend, so I’m looking forward to it.
