Trubisky: Preseason snaps unrelated to struggles
CHICAGO — Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky dismissed the notion that enjoying solely three snaps (all handoffs) within the preseason contributed to his lackluster efficiency throughout Chicago’s 10-Three loss to the Inexperienced Bay Packers on Thursday night time.
“I do know you guys (the media) are going to try to draw comparisons like that, however actually, the snaps within the preseason don’t have anything to do with the way in which we executed, or the sloppiness tonight,” Trubisky mentioned. “We weren’t doing that in observe. We had been easy in observe … it simply appeared a bit scattered tonight with all of our personnels, and looking for a rhythm and looking for our identification on offense. We simply put ourselves in dangerous conditions and shot ourselves within the foot. You possibly can perhaps contribute it (to the dearth of preseason motion), however I feel it is sort of a stretch.”
Trubisky completed 26-of-45 for 228 yards for a passer ranking of 62.1
The 25-year-old quarterback threw an interception in the long run zone into double protection on the Bears’ second-to-last offensive possession.
“Undoubtedly left plenty of performs on the market,” Trubisky mentioned. “Simply myself as an offense, we actually could not discover a rhythm there. Struggled on third down, clearly. That was obvious. We have to be higher on first and second down, to remain in manageable conditions on third down. I felt like I made some good throws right here and there, made some good selections for essentially the most half, however I feel it was simply sloppy on my own and as an offense as a complete, simply going by way of all our procedures. It was simply powerful. We could not discover a rhythm.”
Contemporary off a good second NFL season (Three,223 passing yards, 24 touchdowns, 12 interceptions), Trubisky was anticipated to enhance throughout his second 12 months underneath head coach Matt Nagy, who received NFL coach of the 12 months honors in 2018.
However Trubisky displayed little progress in Week 1 as he watched the Packers’ protection efficiently comprise him contained in the pocket.
“We needed to make Mitch play quarterback,” Packers cornerback Tramon Williams mentioned. “We knew they’d plenty of weapons, we knew they had been harmful, we knew all of these issues. However we knew if we may make Mitch play quarterback, that we might have an opportunity.”
Nonetheless, Nagy refused responsible Trubisky for the offensive collapse.
“I feel he noticed (the sector) OK,” Nagy mentioned of Trubisky. “However that is not — once more, I did not assist him in any respect. I did not assist him. I’ve acquired to assist him. After which we have got to get the run sport going. That is 15 rushes in 65 performs, you are down 7-Three, however we — once more, that is one thing that we’ll as a employees get again collectively and we’ll determine, OK, what are we doing as coaches and the way can we get higher to assist these children out.
“Clearly, unacceptable. Begins with me, so this — I simply instructed the blokes in there, ‘This isn’t who we’re.'”
A fair higher defensive problem awaits Trubisky subsequent week when the Bears journey to Denver to face former coordinator Vic Fangio’s Broncos.
ESPN’s Rob Demovsky contributed to this report