Chicago Bears: Chase Daniel making strides every week

Every week Chase Daniel has gotten better in the Matt Nagy offense, we should expect similar from Mitchell Trubisky

When Chase Daniel played in the Hall of Fame game, he looked like one of the worst quarterbacks to step foot on a field. It was bad. We knew Daniel had low upside in his role as a backup, but the idea was that he was to be at least competent in the preseason.

Fast forward to a month later and we have a small minority of Bears fans-probably the same crew who wanted Tyler Bray to back up over Daniel-saying Chase Daniel looks good enough to start in the NFL. While that is a bit hyperbole considering his full body of work, Chase Daniel has progressed in leaps and bounds over his month with the team.

From the Hall of Fame game on, he progressed in completion percentage from 50 to 66 to 67 to 83. Improvement in every game. Yards per attempt, it is the same deal. 3.3, 6.3, 6.8, 11.

Look at this touchdown to interception rates 1-2, 0-1, 2-0, 2-0. With all of this in mind, his QB rating improved week to week from 38.8 to 49.3 to 110.6 to 149.5.

While this is great for Chase Daniel, as he has proven to be competent at the very least, there is an overarching point to this.

Chase Daniel “knows” the Matt Nagy offense. He has the most familiarity with it given his experiences that is. However, what we forget with that idea is that while Matt Nagy was an offensive coordinator and called plays at times with Andy Reid, that was still Reid’s offense.

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We have touched on this before, but Nagy is going to sprinkle some of the stuff Daniel knows and loves in, but this is a different offense, altogether, it is the real Matt Nagy offense.

With that in mind, even Daniel, who knows Nagy so well may have needed to take steps in order to comprehend it fully.

This brings us to Mitchell Trubisky struggling in the preseason. In a minimal sample size, Trubisky did look better in his second time out compared to his first. It also makes sense that he is going to struggle. He may struggle early into the season. It may take him three or four weeks to put this together.

But, the idea is that every week you are seeing him put it together. You look at his steps and understanding of the offense. If Trubisky can hone in the offense over time like Daniel did this preseason, it should be a season in which Trubisky gets better every single week.

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