Chicago Bears will start Mitch Trubisky, bench Mike Glennon

The Chicago Bears are making the decision to start rookie quarterback Mitch Trubisky instead of Mike Glennon in week five vs. Minnesota…

The wait for Mitch Trubisky is ‘officially’ over, even though news that the Chicago Bears might start their talented rookie quarterback was reported a couple of days ago.

Adam Schefter of ESPN reported on Monday morning that John Fox and the Bears had decided to make the switch to Trubisky, but he wasn’t the first one to bring this news to our attention.

Benjamin Allbright, an NFL reporter stationed in Denver, had the news on September 29th:

Kudos to Allbright for a big scoop there. This was a move that people should have seen coming for a while now, but the Bears thought they were smarter than everyone else and delaying the inevitable.

This is the type of move that I simply don’t understand in today’s NFL. The Houston Texans tried to do it with Brock Osweiler, paying him $17 million per season. The Chicago Bears must have thought that was no precautionary tale, and gave $19 million in guaranteed money to Mike Glennon.

What do Osweiler and Glennon have in common? They were largely unproven in regular season action, and not talented enough to warrant big money contracts.

Glennon should be getting paid below average backup cash. The Chicago Bears — led by Ryan Pace and John Fox — are just that much smarter than the rest of us. They knew they could develop Glennon into a serviceable starter, something he hadn’t proven he could be in his time with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

After signing Glennon to a ridiculous contract, the Bears traded up one spot to get Mitch Trubisky, now their starter and the player who — barring injury — will be their starter for the foreseeable future.

What’s incredible to me is that, even after seeing how much better Trubisky was in preseason play, the Bears decided to go with Glennon anyway. It was an absolute waste of time.

Glennon had five interceptions in four games, and five fumbles (three lost). For those of you who don’t care to quickly run that math, that is a whopping eight turnovers by one guy in four games.

You just can’t have that.

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This is a particularly confusing move given the fact that John Fox’s job is on the line. If your team isn’t going to win games, wouldn’t you rather have the excuse that you’re breaking in a rookie quarterback, and at least have a viable excuse?

I have nothing against Mike Glennon, who I’m sure is a good guy, but this was an egregious error by the Chicago Bears and it’s going to probably cost John Fox his job by season’s end. It should also cost Ryan Pace his job.

It might not cost either of them their jobs if Trubisky comes in and plays even somewhat like he did in the preseason, where he was dealing. This kid has a ton of talent, and it’ll be exciting to see what he can do with the two-headed rushing attack of Jordan Howard and Tarik Cohen around him

The Bears also have a pretty darn good offensive line, as Glennon was only sacked four times in four games without a fully healthy group up front.

This could prove to be a season-saving move for Chicago, but they made the decision four weeks too late.

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