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Garaoppolo would be better but injury has gotten the best of him. I think Shanahan is much better at running and calling the offense than Nagy is. Kyles offense is very similar to how his dad ran his offensive schemes. You can literally plug and play a RB and get a 1,000 yards from them. His zone blocking would play better to Trubiskys strength of being mobile. Problem in Chicago is you don’t really have zone blockers. Your tackles have to be as mobile as your interior linemen for it to work. Ifedi at RT is more mobile than Massie is for sure. Maybe part of why they looked a little better. Won’t really know until they play a better team. .

This is why you always play to win...all the way to the end. You never know what will happen. Earlier this year you pointed out that GB having their bye so early would be an advantage to us. Didn’t quite work out that way BUT the season isn’t over yet. They’ve been going a long time without a break. Detroit played them tough yesterday but lost Stafford when they most needed him. No we won’t catch them but I’m fairly comfortable they won’t last long into the playoffs.

Imagine if Trubiksy were in Kyle Shanahan’s offense.

Agreed on all points!!

Too bad the Bears didn't draft Hurts this year.

And they have an interesting ‘problem’ with Brees and Taysom Hill. To me Brees is becoming expendable...fast. Last year Bridgewater was 5-0 (?) playing for Brees while he was hurt and this year Hill is 3-0.

Proud of the team and especially Trubisky. Through all the adversity he’s been able to keep his nose to the grindstone. The Texans are a shell of a team but he took advantage of the situation and performed well. He did last week too; it was the defense that let us down last week. (As I type this Detroit takes the opening kickoff and then scores against GB). Glad to see the Bears not giving up. The season isn’t over yet.

Probably GB... that’ll be our luck. ??‍♂️

He’s turned into a garbage player. During the HOU TD he was trailing the receiver from the outset and didn’t even try to close. Sorta the trend he’s been on.

Former 1st round pick and formerly highest paid Olineman Laramy Tunsil with his second penalty of the game. Charles Leno = 0...so far.

Except self respect and the players maybe wanting to advertise for their future teams.

He’s a new personal favorite. I’m more a big body receiver type guy. He’s like Megatron, Anquan Boldin, Marshall or even Jeffrey. Wims comes close to that category. Nagys offense prefers more speedsters, which big guys usually aren’t.

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I still think there’s hope for these two guys. Ridleys brother was who Pace wanted the year he ‘settled’ for Wims. Who did pretty well considering his background. And Riley I think hasn’t had much opportunity because a) they were determined to let Miller do well (aka prove themselves right) and b ) the QB issue. Maybe when the dust settles, Arob is traded and Miller is cut or whatever they and Mooney will be the only ones left(?)

Of course it’s “obvious and subjective” it all is. Who has given an expert analysis of Trubiksy that says he’ll be an HOF QB? Aside from Pace maybe. Is Mel Kiper an expert at predicting draft picks and their success? He sure gets paid like he is. Are his observations “obvious or subjective”? It’s well recorded the misses he’s made at his predictions; Harrington, Dave Carr and JeMarcus Russell among them. Talking football is all about analytics and supposition based on those statistics. Statistics are only as good as you want them to be, or as bad as they are. The point I made about Orlovsky is that he’s ‘been there done that’ and can lend some insight to the position much better than I or maybe you can. I didn’t say HE was good at the position just that he’s played it. I was thinking about what you said while watching highlights yesterday and looking at players like Mahomes, Wilson, Rodgers and Murray. All QBs who are mobile and quite often don’t have their feet set while throwing. A few of them have been around awhile while a few others are more recent arrivals to the game. But their ability to throw on the run (not have their feet set) has been successful (so far) due to their being able to see more of the field and throw to open receivers. Something Trubisky lacks. The combination of him throwing non-effectual passes (short, long or mid-range) to his primary read every time is a recipe for failure. Lastly, Nagy was brought in largely to make Trubiksy a successful QB in his system. It’s well documented Fox didn’t want Trubiksy when he was drafted. Trubsikys failure to run Nagys system ultimately falls on Nagy and Paces shoulders.

This game pretty much caps how their season has been. Lots of potential at the beginning only to lose steam and peter out at the end. Last week the d mailed it in and didn’t do much better this week. Offense came to play...for once, until the end.

The lineman blocking the player who just caused the strip sack on Trubisky at the 5? Former 1st round draft pick Germain Ifedi.

Yep. And some help from the coach.

Is a neurosurgeon still a doctor if he/she graduates at the bottom of their class in medical school? Or an attorney if they graduate at the bottom of their class at Harvard Law? From the outset I said I was and have never been a fan of Orlovsky. To me his defining moment was when he unknowingly ran out of the back of the end zone. That being said, not only did he play in the NFL but four years of college ball in that position. Still his observation on that play is accurate for what’s illed Mitch for his career. And since this string is more about Nagy than Trubisky, this inability to ‘get ready’ in three years and with 5 weeks off to work on his skills is more on Nagy. Himself a college QB and IFL vet.

Amazing what happens when you play a lowly team like the Lions. But the oline does look pretty darn good today. Bars and Mustipher in there with Whitehair at LG and Ifedi bumped out to RT might be a good lineup going forward. Because of the positive oline play we’re seeing good running and solid fundamentally sound play by Trubisky. And maybe having Nagy not doing the play calling is helping too.

Skrine shows up to play.

What if someone like NE comes calling with a deal including one or two draft picks? I’m with you, I’d hope to keep Mitch around just for the sake of consistency.

Really the mechanics that Orlovsky talks about is spot on. Trubiskys been plagued with throwing on a bad base for most of his career. That’s why most of his mid-long range passes don’t hit their mark. He does exactly as Orlovsky says and doesn’t set his feet. If he did, he could have stepped into the throw with more force and accuracy. Cutler was the same way but he had more pure arm strength and could really send it, good base or not. Was it within Kmet’s ‘range or wingspan’? Yes. But as you suggest had he led him then he would’ve been more vulnerable to the turnover. Which is the other part of Trubiksys play. He locks onto players and only focuses on his first read; or does it a lot. In this same play he had a second and third option in Graham in the back right corner of the end zone and Mooney to his left with single coverage. Graham’s movement set him up for a post pattern to allow Trubiksy throw a toss to the back corner for him to try and get one on one; something he’s done for years. The other was Mooney who I believe was breaking right (towards Mitch) on a slant or dig and had broken open (at least it looks that way early in the play) with coverage trailing. Robinson was replicating that move in closer from the slot and had gotten the attention of Mooneys inside coverage. Lastly when you look at the line protection a small hole had broken open to Trubiksys left (Guard/Center) gap where he could’ve probably ran in or at least made a significant gain (although I don’t remember what down and distance it was at the time).

FWIW I hope you’re right.

Again not really a fan of Orlovskys...but he did play the position in the NFL. (Even if he did infamously run out of the back of the end zone). I think the point here is to add that not only is Nagy not able to coach ‘his guy’ but that despite being in the same system for a number of years AND having a few weeks to think about how he could get better and work on his mechanics, Trubiksy didn’t. We’d hope, given his position in the draft and title as future Franchise QB that at some point it would click. It hasn’t. We all know Foles isn’t ‘that guy’. I had hope early on he’d be able to at least get us through this year, but that was fleeting.