At the halfway point of the last decade, it was clear the Bears had no answer for the Lions. From 2013 to late 2018, Chicago lost nine of 10 matchups to their eastern Michigan counterparts. A great deal of such calamity and failure coalesced with poor timing around two head coaches, Marc Trestman and John Fox, who quite frankly were never up to the job. But it’s not as if the Bears’ roster in itself, especially at quarterback, didn’t have any issues playing up to snuff against Detroit.
Enter Matt Nagy and his pet project, Mitchell Trubisky.