The Bears finish up OTA’s this week then prepare for next week’s mandatory veteran’s mini-camp" The Bears DenNotesXs and OsSuperfansThe Bear’s Den Pat O'Donnell Jersey , June 4, 2019New,51commentsThe Bears finish up OTA’s this week then prepare for next week’s mandatory veteran’s mini-campCDTShare this storyShare this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShareAll sharing optionsShareAll sharing options for:The Bear’s Den, June 4, 2019TwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailCornerback Kyle Fuller #23 of the Chicago Bears celebrates his interception in the fourth quarter during an NFL game against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field on November 22, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Photo by Dave Reginek/Getty ImagesBEAR DOWN, CHICAGO BEARS, BEAR DOWN!!!!The whole Matt Nagy Delaware commencement speech is a great watch for Bears fans. BEARRRSSSS / FREE AGENCY / OTA’SRanking the 100 best Bears players ever: No. 95, Akiem Hicks - Chicago Tribune - Before the Bears’ 100th season, the Tribune's Bears reporters and editors ranked the 100 best players in franchise history. Akiem Hicks is No. 95.Dewitt: Thoughts On Chicago Bears Classic Jersey Leak - Chicago Audible - Part of the Chicago Bears Classic jersey leaked over the weekend. But what can the other elements like the helmet, pants and socks look like?Where are they now? As Bears' 2017 wide receiver room struggles to stay in NFL, current unit looks as deep as ever | NBC Sports Chicago - The Bears' 2017 wide receiver group was a bleak unit filled with guys who've struggled to stay in the NFL since. Now? Mike Furrey's unit may be the strongest on the team.Mayer: Butkus anchors all-time Bears defensive team - ChicagoBears.com - The all-time Bears defensive team as selected by writers Don Pierson and Dan Pompei in the Chicago Bears Centennial Scrapbook boasts six Hall of Famers, led by legendary middle linebacker Dick Butkus.The Bears Could Lose Front Office Exec. Champ Kelly (Even If He Doesn't Get the Jets' GM Job) - Bleacher Nation - The Jets could end up with two ex-Bears staffers running their front office.Wood: A Complete Breakdown of the Quarterback Position’s Efficiency for 2018 - Da Bears Blog - The offseason is the perfect time to do a deep dive into what exactly we saw on the field last year, so today I want to look more closely at how Chicago’s QBs performed in 2018. To do so https://www.thebearsfanshop.com/Kyle-Long-Jersey , I’m going to compile all of the information about individual targets from The Quant Edge and use it to see what we can learn about QB play as a whole.Eurich: Comparing Chuck Pagano's Bears to 2011 Baltimore Ravens defense - 247Sports - Chuck Pagano has more experience as an NFL head coach than he does as a defensive coordinator. He held that coordinator role with the Baltimore Ravens in 2011 before becoming the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. The 2019 season will mark a return to the coordinator role with the Chicago Bears. He is taking over one of the league's best units from the season before after Vic Fangio left to become the head coach of the Denver Broncos.Emma: Bears' Champ Kelly Interviews For Jets' GM Position - 670 The Score - Bears assistant director of player personnel Champ Kelly interviewed with the Jets on Monday for their general manager position.Bears storylines: Kyle Long’s playoff vision, Adam Vinatieri’s kicker advice and Blake Brockermeyer’s unbelievable bet - Chicago Tribune - Storylines from last week’s Bears OTAs include guard Kyle Long’s big goals and Adam Vinatieri’s kicking insight.Biggs: Mike Davis is comfortable competing for carries as the Bears divide playing time 3 ways at running back - Chicago Tribune - Mike Davis figured the Bears would use a draft pick on a running back, and the free-agent addition is confident and comfortable with sharing the workload.Going to the Bears100 convention in Rosemont? 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Up for discussion: The team’s retooled backfield, his Pro Bowl experience and “swaggy hats.”POLISH SAUSAGEGoodell: Four preseason games may not be necessary – ProFootballTalk - A recent report indicated that the NFL would like to discuss expanding the regular season schedule to 18 games as part of the negotiations with the NFLPA on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement and past talk about such a move has been tied to cutting the number of preseason games.State of the Franchise: Chiefs must win title for ‘19 to be success - NFL.com - The Chiefs came up a bit short in their quest for the Super Bowl in 2018. Adam Rank surveys the 2019 squad and says anything less than a title will be a disappointment for Kansas City this season.KNOW THY ENEMYPodcast: Should the Detroit Lions repay Calvin Johnson? - Pride Of Detroit - The PODcast crew debates.Revenge Week: Can Kirk Cousins follow Case Keenum and Brett Favre? - Daily Norseman - We’ll get to find out in Week 8Vikings ranked as fourth-best wide receiver corps in NFL - Daily Norseman - Which says a lot about their top two guysPackers’ 2019 90-man roster ranking: How have second-year players moved since 2018? - Acme Packing Company - A few UDFAs drastically outperformed expectations a year ago while the team’s top pick from 2018 broke into this year’s top ten.Detroit Lions sign 3rd-round pick Will Harris, entire rookie class under contract - Pride Of Detroit - The Lions’ full rookie class is under contract.What to look for as Detroit Lions open minicamp - Pride Of Detroit - Some insight on which storylines to follow during minicamp.Darius Slay not planning on attending mandatory minicamp - Pride Of Detroit - It looks like a holdout is on the horizon.It’s time for the Detroit Lions to own the Bears again - Pride Of Detroit - It’s time for the Lions to reclaim this rivalry after an embarrassing year.IN CASE YOU MISSED IT ON WINDY CITY GRIDIRONWiltfong: Bears’ tight ends just miss a top 10 ranking - Windy City Gridiron - SB Nation is ranking each position group in the NFL and they have the tight ends of the Chicago Bears checking in at number 11.Zeglinski: The Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers give each other meaning - Windy City Gridiron - The NFL’s oldest rivalry is rife with history, tradition, and symbolism. 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Unless otherwise stated, the Den is not an open thread, and profanity (including profanity only stated in pictures) is prohibited.Click on our names to follow us on Twitter:WCG Contributors: Jeff Berckes; Patti Curl; Eric Christopher Duerrwaechter;Kev H; Sam Householder; Jacob Infante; Aaron Lemming; Ken Mitchell; Steven Schweickert; Jack Silverstein; EJ Snyder; Lester Wiltfong, Jr.; Whiskey Ranger; Robert Schmitz; Robert Zeglinski; Like us on Facebook. Did Trubisky overthink things in his first year of the Matt Nagy offense? The numbers seem to indicate he did." Latest NewsNewsRoster AnalysisWhich quarter was Mitchell Trubisky best in during games?New,50commentsDid Trubisky overthink things in his first year of the Matt Nagy offense? The numbers seem to indicate he did. CDTEven though he displayed some inconsistency during the 2019 season, Chicago Bears’ quarterback Mitchell Trubisky did breakout during his first year in Matt Nagy’s complicated offense. I know there are some that would like to tell you that he regressed in his second year as a pro, but that’s a bunch of malarkey. He’s grown as a player and he’s grown as a team leader with this franchise since the day he was drafted. His regular season averages went up across the board during his sophomore season. His completion percentage went up 7.2 percentage points, his yards per game went up 47.4 yards, and his touchdown percentage went up 3.4% points. He also saw year two increases in passer rating, ESPN’s QBR, yards per attempt, rushing yards per game, and to be fair, interception percentage. In the recent Brett Kollmann video we shared here at WCG Sam Acho Jersey , he talked about how Trubisky looks like he plays tight when he’s forced to think, but plays better when he’s in clutch situations with only time to react and make plays. He even dug up this late game stat when comparing Trubisky to the Rams’ Jared Goff.Young players playing better when not overthinking isn’t unheard of, so I wanted to check out the stats to see what Trubisky’s passer rating looked like on a quarter by quarter basis. We all know that the first several plays in a West Coast system, the type of system that the Bears run, are scripted. Bill Walsh, the legendary 49ers head coach that created the West Coast Offense and taught it to Mike Holmgren, who then taught it to Andy Reid, who then taught it to Nagy, used to script 25 plays for each game. Nagy also scripts the opening of each game, so it’s logical to think that his first quarter passer rating would be fairly high. So to recap, his season passer rating last year was 16th highest at 95.4 among qualifying QBs.For the quarter splits I’m including any quarterbacks that attempted at least 50 passes in a quarter. During first quarters in 2018 Trubisky put up a passer rating of 111.7, which was 5th highest in the league. This fits the ‘don’t over think it’ narrative since Trubisky spends the week preparing to run Nagy’s scripted plays, and come game time he has a familiarity with the calls. During second quarters his passer rating drops all the way down to 23rd overall at 85.6.With the script exhausted, Nagy and Trubisky are trying to get a feel for the game. In the first year of the system the plays weren’t ingrained into Trubisky’s muscle memory yet, so he’s forced to think about what calls are coming in https://www.thebearsfanshop.com/Devin-Hester-Jersey , his presnap read, the pass protection, his adjustments, the adjustments from his receivers, and all that thinking slows down his reaction time. For the third quarter Trubisky’s passer rating was 19th in the NFL at 88.7. A slight bump from Trubisky in the third could be attributed to him taking some time to collect his thoughts and take a breath in the locker room, then again, it’s not a very significant increase. In the fourth quarter Trubisky is only up to 17th overall, but his passer rating shoots up to a 95.7.So, the ‘don’t overthink it’ narrative comes back into play. The fourth was Trubisky’s second best overall quarter, and as Kollmann indicated above, Trubisky was money in the last seven minutes of a game, which is the time when the quarterback is just slinging it to get his team in position to win or ice the game. I won’t bother with overtime stats because he completed his only OT pass for 5 yards in Miami. Trubisky not only had to learn a new system in 2018 after playing in John Fox’s run, run, pass, punt offense as a rookie Danny Trevathan Color Rush Jersey , but he had to get used to playing with a slew of new offensive players too. In 2019 his comfort has already grown with the system, with what his head coach expects from him, and with his teammates. He’s had an excellent offseason so far and he looks to build on that during training camp. “You can feel his (Trubisky’s) confidence growing. Chemistry, continuity . . . that’s going to continue as we go forward,” general manager Ryan Pace said yesterday via the Chicago Sun-Times. “He’s a naturally accurate thrower, and I think as you play longer in this offense and that timing comes into fruition, you get used to these receivers, you develop a chemistry with them, the touch goes into those throws.”Trubisky is now able to process the play calls as he hears them without having to think about every little detail. His understanding of the offense will allow him to think less and react more, and that will make him a better football player.