How the Chicago Bears can create an offensive role for Mitch Trubisky

Some players like Mitch Trubisky can find a niche in the Chicago Bears offense

After nine weeks, the Chicago Bears may finally be understanding that offensive yardage will be difficult to come by simply through Nick Foles and David Montgomery.

And this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. NFL franchises are, in a way, following other major sports like the NBA and MLB with point-forwards and four-man outfields respectively. Sports are about as positionless as they’ve always been.

Heading into Chicago’s Monday Night tilt against the Vikings, we’ve already seen NFL quarterbacks account for 12 catches, 101 yards, and 2 touchdowns in 2020.

So what’s the excuse? The starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears is literally responsible for arguably the greatest catch a quarterback has ever caught. More and more teams are using the “Philly Special” that put Nick Foles in football lore.

Even if Foles isn’t the one doing the catching this time, what’s stopping the Chicago Bears from getting into that 11 personnel — 41 percent of their snaps come in “11 personnel” according to Sharp Football Analysis — they love so much, stretching the defense with three receivers, and using motion to find Trubisky on plays like this?

(Whoops; I forgot the Bears have to get into the red zone in order to run plays like this with regularity).