The key to opening Chicago Bears offense

There is no surprise that as Mitch Trubisky runs more, the Chicago Bears offense has improved

If you have read the blog for the past season you should know this post is coming. One of the most fascinating things to come from the Chicago Bears descend to earth from last season was Mitch Trubisky running the football.

Trubisky was incredible on broken plays last season and had 68 rushes for 421 yards. Through Week 7 of this year he had 5 rushing attempts for 21 yards. We questioned whether Trubisky was fearful of injury? We questioned whether Nagy wants QB runs in his playbook, we even questioned whether Ryan Pace was demanding his quarterback develop from the pocket, even if it was sacrificing wins.

Whatever it was, it started to change when Trubisky could not execute an option play and was pulled a series later for a hip injury. In the past three games, he has 21 rushes for 85 yards. He has 16 rushes in the nine previous games.

His numbers are inflated by a 10 rush, 63-yard performance against Dallas. However, the game against Dallas also just so happens to be the best he has played all season.

The threat of running has been missing from his game. He will never carve teams from the pocket. However, when they respect or fear his legs, it opens windows, and shot plays down the field. If not, Trubisky is creating on his own.

We will never know why Trubisky did not run in the first part of the season. However, we do know that when he does threaten teams with his legs, the offense is consistently better off. Hopefully, we see a similar stye of offense next week in a huge game against Green Bay.