It was probably just coach Matt Nagy’s bad luck that Mitch Trubisky suffered a shoulder injury on his one and only play as a wildcat quarterback last Sunday against the Saints. Stuff happens.
But it was a bad look for a coach still struggling to establish an offense halfway through his third season, eliciting a not-unfamiliar admonishment for Nagy: Don’t get too cute.
Nagy presumably was mimicking Saints coach Sean Payton’s use of Taysom Hill earlier in the game. But it only served to illustrate a key lesson Nagy struggles with: Build an offense first, then get cute.