As the Bears prepare for their last idle Sunday of the regular season — and a gauntlet that will decide their long-shot playoff fate — the Sun-Times’ Patrick Finley breaks down the road ahead:
Mitch Trubisky has played better lately. Is he the starter next year?
It’s Trubisky’s job to lose — the Bears don’t have enough cap space next season to pay a quarterback guaranteed to be better than Trubisky. Instead, they’ll add a veteran who will push Trubisky for the starting job — or at least provide more of a threat to take it away than Chase Daniel.