Chicago Bears: The keys to Mitch Trubisky beating the Packers

The Chicago Bears failed Mitch Trubisky from the start

Martz’s statement was, “we start from the bottom up.”  He meant he started with Jay Cutler’s footwork. This is the fundamental difference between a very experienced “quarterback whisperer” like Mike Martz and a very inexperienced one like Matt Nagy.

It was not until he had played three full years in the NFL before Mitch Trubisky took it upon himself this offseason to go all in to fix his mechanics. He hired Jeff Christensen to get this done. It was extreme neglect by the Bears head coach and his offensive assistant coaches to not make absolutely certain everything was done to fix Trubisky’s mechanics.

Mitch Trubisky is also at fault for waiting until his career was hanging in the balance to attack this problem. However, it is more on the coaches because Trubisky as a young quarterback is looking to them for guidance.

Trubisky’s problems with his footwork are something I have been writing about since 2019 and talking about since 2017. I started looking more closely at his footwork last year though. Regretfully, starting from the first game of the 2020 season, I came away discouraged.

Many of Mitch’s passes were made with his feet wide apart and often no forward step was taken. There were even two times he jumped off his backfoot before making a pass. There is no way any quarterback could be accurate doing that. Predictably, it all ended with him losing his job. Nagy and the assistant coaches whose responsibility it was to work on Trubisky’s mechanics, all failed him miserably.