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Mitchell Trubisky Time May Be Soon For Chicago Bears

Published Sat, 30 Sep 2017 13:36:56 -0500

You don't trade away a bunch of picks to move up one spot in the first round for a quarterback not to play him. The moment that move happened on draft day, the clock began counting down to when the Chicago Bears would be lead by rookie Mitchell Trubisky. The problem was the Bear signed Mike Glennon to be their starter for 2017. Glennon, who had some starting experience in Tampa Bay, never caught on as the regular. He was looking for his chance in the Windy City, but after three poor performances… his chance might be over.

With their next game not until October 9th, Bears head coach John Fox was purposely vague in his press conference about the future of the quarterback position. Where after week two he quickly assured Glennon's place in the starting line-up, that wasn't the case after Thursdays game.

Fox told reporters:

I'm not really trying to be clear. Actually, quite the opposite. But we're evaluating every day. We need to make a lot of changes. We will evaluate everything, and we've got a lot of work to do before we line up against Minnesota. We are going to look at everything.

When asked if Glennon's contract, guaranteeing him $16 million this season, would be a factor in the decision:

I don't think so. I go way back to when I came in the league. We weren't even allowed to know what a guy made because we didn't want that to influence the decision. I'm just kind of old school that way. I just like to evaluate people based on performance.

Trubisky played well enough in the preseason to beat out veteran Mark Sanchez for the back-up spot, but had the knock against him coming out of North Carolina that he only played 13 games in college. Fox was asked if he thought Trubisky was ready to be the starter:

Until that happens, you don't really know. I don't think you know, and I don't even know. Regardless, it's who you draft, who you sign to a free-agent contract. I think that kind of tells what you think. Now, you still have got to execute. We watch these guys practice every day. That's the unique thing we get to evaluate. I've seen steady growth. It's altogether different I think. Most quarterbacks would tell you that. All of a sudden your experiences in college, your experiences in the preseason, and then you get to the regular season. People talk about this as well. You get to a playoff game. It ramps off. So you don't really know that until you put somebody out there. You'd like to have them as ready to take the test as possible, and typically the more you study the better you get.

John Fox is an old pro at dancing around questions during press conferences. While head coach in Carolina he became known for answering a lot of questions with the line, "it is what it is." By comparison, this press conference he was positively verbose.

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