Mitch Trubisky Predicted To Tear 2018 Season Up For Bears

The Chicago Bears geared everything in one direction for their 2018 offseason. That was making their young quarterback an NFL success.

This is something the organization has failed at time and again for years upon years. Even when they manage to get the quarterback position right, they often do a poor job building a proper system to help him reach his full potential. It was true of Jim McMahon in the ’80s and again of Jay Cutler during his long run with the team. If it wasn’t one thing it was another.

Sometimes they’d have a good offensive line but no receivers. Then when they had the receivers and the line the offensive scheme was clearly outdated. Think of it this way. How different would McMahon’s career had been if Bill Walsh were his head coach rather than Mike Ditka? Or what might’ve happened had Bruce Arians gotten the job over Marc Trestman.

These are questions that sometimes keep fans up at night and pray the same thing doesn’t happen to Mitch Trubisky. It’s definitely what GM Ryan Pace is trying to prevent. One NFL expert has evaluated the work done over the past few months and came away with one conclusion:  2018 will be the Year of the Biscuit.

Work done by Bears has set Trubisky up to be the next Jared Goff

Many feel the blueprint for how to successfully build around a young quarterback was enacted by the Los Angeles Rams in 2017. They invested heavily in a new, offensive head coach along with offensive line and wide receivers to help Jared Goff overcome his struggles as a rookie. He responded with a Pro Bowl season. Adam Schein, a notorious critic of the Bears over the past few years, feels they followed that same blueprint to perfection.

"“I’m infatuated with the Bears’ offseason. Wrote back in March that Chicago’s poised to be the NFL’s Cinderella team. The Bears smartly followed the Rams’ blueprint from last offseason: hand the keys to an offensive guru/quarterback whisperer (Matt Nagy) and dedicate the offseason to surrounding your young signal-caller with talent (Allen Robinson, Taylor Gabriel and Trey Burton in free agency, James Daniels and Anthony Miller in the draft).Trubisky will follow in Goff’s footsteps and take a major jump in his sophomore campaign.”"

Things couldn’t have been much worse for Trubisky last season. He had an old, unimaginative head coach in John Fox. The offense was straddled with a backward, predictable scheme and a total lack of front line wide receivers. Defenses had no fear of it. It’s actually a wonder Trubisky managed to shoot par with seven touchdowns and seven interceptions in 12 games. Most rookies would’ve done far worse. In fact, Goff himself threw five touchdowns and seven interceptions under almost identical conditions in 2016.

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So perhaps Schein is right. Trubisky could be poised for a huge breakout season if things progress along a similar path around him as they did for Goff last year.