Bears coach Matt Nagy is a glass-half-full kind of guy, even when that glass is only a quarter-full.
So after three quarters of the same disheartening decision-making and erratic throws that everyone saw from quarterback Mitch Trubisky last season, Nagy did the most predictable thing possible and held up Trubisky’s heroic fourth quarter in the opener against the Lions as the reason to keep hope.
Trubisky got a hearty pat on the back for frantically cleaning up the mess he spent all afternoon making.
The Bears still want to believe Trubisky, a 26-year-old with 42 career starts, can play like that all the time and become the franchise quarterback they dreamed of when general manager Ryan Pace chose him ahead of Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson in the 2017 draft.