If Mitch Trubisky’s deep ball is a Ricky Vaughn pitch — the “Wild Thing” never did know where the ball was going, though it got there quickly — then Nick Foles’ is an arcing lob wedge shot designed to flutter into the arms of his receivers.
“I think it’s just more of a feel thing, just understanding the speed and the angle of the receivers and where they’re going to be,” Foles, the Bears’ new starting quarterback, said this week. “And just letting it rip.”
Foles did that — because he had to — in the Bears’ 16-point, fourth-quarter comeback win against the Falcons.