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Chicago Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky is now not intimidated by a quarterback competition with Cut Foles, head coach Matt Nagy acknowledged on Monday’s episode of NFL Community’s Correct Morning Football.
“(Trubisky) has been in actuality, in actuality good in the incontrovertible truth that he’s taken this head-on. He’s accredited it. He understands it. We’re all so competitive, but we’re human, too. There would possibly be a realness to the incontrovertible truth that ‘OK, you will suppose someone else in right here and compile me compete.’ Firstly, it be likely a shock. But then after that, it be like, ‘Let’s accelerate.'”
Chicago obtained Foles in March by a alternate with the Jacksonville Jaguars. The 31-one year-outdated-long-established used to be restricted to four begins in 2019, his lone one year with the Jags, on account of a broken left clavicle he suffered for the length of the usual-season opener.
Overall, Foles holds a 26-22 file as a starter. The pinnacle of his NFL profession got right here in Sizable Bowl LII, when he guided the Philadelphia Eagles to a 41-33 victory over the New England Patriots and used to be named Sizable Bowl MVP.
The Bears’ stage of dedication to Trubisky has been unclear, especially after they declined to whisper his fifth-one year option in early Would possibly per chance per chance. The 2017 second overall take struggled last season while nursing a left shoulder hurt that required offseason surgical draw in January.
Nagy added that Foles and Trubisky would possibly compile an equal shot initially gig for 2020:
“That is the allotment that we as coaches teach, ‘ what? This is how we’ll earn the Bears higher.’ We are going to compile competition for the length of our total crew. There are other competitions happening exquisite now. Clearly, right here is the point of hobby, and these guys had been wide. I’m infected to hunt for how it goes after we earn to training camp, and we earn to the preseason video games and then to the season. They will both handle it in actuality successfully. As soon as more, while you’re true with of us, it makes issues in existence so grand more uncomplicated. These guys are competitors, and they’re good of us. They will earn it work.”
Trubisky’s handiest season so a ways got right here in 2018, when he went 11-3 as a starter and completed 66.6 percent of his accelerate makes an attempt for 3,223 yards, 24 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. He regressed enormously last season, polishing off easiest 63.2 percent of his accelerate makes an attempt for 3,138 yards, 17 touchdowns and 10 picks.
The Bears offense ranked 25th in passing, 27th in speeding and 29th overall last season.
