If John DeFilippo knew the secret formula that solved inconsistency in football players, he wouldn’t be the Bears quarterbacks coach.
“I probably wouldn’t be sitting here,” he said this week. “I’d probably be in Cabo somewhere with a boatload of money.”
Instead, he and the Bears coaching staff are trying to get quarterback Mitch Trubisky to — for the first time in his career — consistently carry success from one week to the next.
And yes, last week’s 17-point, fourth-quarter rally after three abysmal quarters was technically a success. In fixing a disaster of his own making, Trubisky posted a 104.