Former Player Thinks Mitch Trubisky Hip Injury Was a Load of Crap
Mitch Trubisky practiced in full for the second-straight day. It looks like a virtual guarantee that the 25-year old will indeed start on Sunday against the New York Giants. Some people might be happy about that given Chase Daniel was the alternative. We all remember what happened the last time Daniel faced the Giants. However, there are some who are more than a little confused about the entire sequence of events dating back to Sunday night when Trubisky suffered the injury in the first place.
Chief among them is Pat McAfee, former punter for the Indianapolis Colts. He’s been following the Trubisky situation for weeks in Chicago and he was just as baffled by the entire thing in L.A. While he doesn’t doubt that Trubisky may have been hurt, he is skeptical that it was bad enough to where head coach Matt Nagy felt compelled to bench him. That belief isn’t helped by Trubisky’s mysteriously rapid recovery from what is technically a bone bruise. Something that often takes 1-3 weeks to heal up.
“I would argue right now? The way things are going, Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy were not on the same page because a hip pointer is a bone bruise which means it is a pain threshold thing. This means you can give him a shot. You can get it going. That’s kind of the way they handle it.
For me, three days after getting pulled out of a game because you couldn’t handle the pain of a hip pointer, except for two and a half quarters Mitchell Trubisky could handle the pain and play quarterback. For that three minutes though, in the middle of the game with his adrenaline up, he couldn’t handle it anymore…
…So now that Trubisky is back in practice just three days later after not being able to handle just three more minutes of a bone bruise pain? It just raises even more questions of this entire thing.”
McAfee thinks Mitch Trubisky was benched
In McAfee’s eyes, it’s pretty clear. Nagy benched Trubisky that night and the hip issue was used as cover. Then Pace intervened and made it clear that this was not going to persist. He’d invested way too much in the quarterback to let him get benched now. Thus Nagy makes it clear that Trubisky is the unquestioned starter moving forward and just three days after suffering an injury that locked up his entire right side against the Rams, the kid was magically practicing without restrictions.
It’s just one big messy situation that ultimately doesn’t matter. The Bears are 4-6 and Trubisky can’t escape the disappointment of how this season has gone for him. His future as the starter beyond 2019 is very much in question. What McAfee is curious about is whether a disconnect has emerged at the top between Nagy and Pace. Something that could significantly impact how the Bears approach the coming offseason.