Will the Chicago Bears be able to withstand the Mitch Trubisky starter chants? This is the overarching question people will ask for months to come. Through both training camp and the preseason. Can GM Ryan Pace hold to his word by keeping Mike Glennon the starter or will outside pressure and Trubisky’s performance force his hand?
It’s a fair thing to ask. Everybody knows how the NFL works these days. The era of keeping highly drafted QBs on the bench for a year or two are long gone. People keep referencing Aaron Rodgers but that’s an isolated case. Green Bay had Brett Favre at the time. If they hadn’t, one can rest assured Rodgers would’ve seen the field way sooner than his fourth season in the NFL.
Nobody is saying Glennon isn’t a hard worker, a good teammate and has some talent. The problem is he’s not Favre. If he were he would’ve have lost his starting job in Tampa Bay and spent three years as a backup. The Bears may have promised him a shot at starting, but it’s not their fault if Trubisky ends up outperforming him.
Mitch Trubisky starter hype will get real soon
That’s why many believe what the Bears are saying won’t hold true. In fact predictions are already swerving towards the idea that Trubisky will not just be starting by the end of the season. He’ll be starting on opening day. That’s what the crew of the “Around The NFL” podcast discussed on NFL Network recently as part of their 2017 predictions.
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Indeed the odds are stacked against Glennon at this point. Of the nine quarterbacks taken in the top five picks since 2010, seven of them were starters by opening day. The only ones who weren’t, Blake Bortles and Jared Goff, were elevated to the top job by midseason. That doesn’t paint a pretty picture for him. He’s walking against a serious tide of recent history.
Inexperience enough to stop him?
His saving grace (or hope) at this point is that Trubisky comes in relatively raw. He only started 13 games in college at North Carolina. The guy has no understanding of how to run a pro-style offense from under center. He’s been known to learn fast but one training camp and preseason may not be enough time to overcome that deficit.
It should make the next three months as enjoyable to watch as Bears fans than any summer stretch in the past decade.
