Will Bears move on from Mitchell Trubisky for 2020?

Things have not gone well for quarterback Mitchell Trubisky in his third year out of North Carolina. Will the Chicago Bears move off him for 2020?

The Chicago Bears entered the 2019 NFL season with Super Bowl aspirations. They reached the NFC playoffs in 2018 by winning the NFC North. This team has a ton of talent on defense and did enough offensively to get by. However, this team has regressed in 2019, thanks in large part to the play of third-year starting quarterback Mitchell Trubisky. Is it time for the Bears to move on?

On this week’s episode of Stacking the Box, FanSided‘s Matt Verderame and Mark Carman, along with former NFL offensive lineman Geoff Schwartz, attempt to predict what the Bears plans are for their struggling quarterback. Will they move off him or not before his fourth year in the league (45:00)?

“Yeah, they can’t play him,” said Schwartz. “Look, when you make up fake injuries to bench a player, like, you just can’t do it. Matt Nagy needs to save his job and save his legacy. You just cut ties and you move on.”

“They’re not playing him next year,” said Verderame. “He’s impossible to play. If they play him next year, everybody should be fired. Everybody. You cannot trot him out here. He’s done. I don’t think they’re going to draft [someone] because they don’t have a first-round pick, but they’re going to do what Tennessee did this year. They’re going to bring in someone like [Ryan] Tannehill”

Not having a first-round pick in 2020 thanks to the Khalil Mack trade with the Oakland Raiders before the start of last season certainly hurts the Bears’ ability to draft Trubisky’s theoretical replacement in the spring. So if they are going to move off him, expect them to go with a veteran starter to serve as a temporary stopgap. Guys like Cam Newton or Teddy Bridgewater fit the bill.

Chicago is still technically alive for a playoff spot in the NFC. The Bears should get a win at home on Sunday, only because they are playing the putrid New York Giants. But after that stunt Nagy pulled at the end of the Los Angeles Rams game, there is no reasonable way you can convince yourself that Trubisky will the Bears starting quarterback in 2020. They have to move on.

Here are a few other topics discussed on this week’s episode of Stacking the Box:

• Who wins the AFC Wild Card spots? (10:31)
• Is the NFC playoff picture already set? (13:28)
• Packers-49ers odds (30:59)
• Will a team sign Colin Kaepernick after workout? (46:56)

All this and more!

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