The Sun-Times’ Patrick Finley solutions the Bears’ most urgent questions within the first week of their 2020 offseason:
Who ought to be beginning at quarterback in Week 1? Who will likely be?
Mitch Trubisky is the favourite to begin in Week 1. Who ought to? Teddy Bridgewater will likely be too costly, Cam Newton’s shoulder scares me and Nick Foles is comically overpaid. General supervisor Ryan Pace will spend the following two months exploring the commerce and free-agent markets searching for, not less than, a No. 2 quarterback. Maybe a starter turns into unexpectedly obtainable. If not, Pace ought to attempt to reunite Alex Smith with pal Matt Nagy — supplied the previous is recovered from his ugly leg damage — and permit him a good competitors with Trubisky throughout coaching camp.
How should Matt Nagy’s offense change?
Develop, for the primary time, an urge for food to run the soccer. Then run play-action off it.
What are the Bears’ prime three wants?
A quarterback they imagine in, a pass-catching tight finish and an inside linebacker to pair with Roquan Smith.
George McCaskey’s religion in GM Ryan Pace and Nagy was …
Rooted extra in blind perception than proof we noticed with our personal eyes this season. With a easy declaration Tuesday, McCaskey may have put justifiable strain on the 2 to enhance in 2020. He didn’t, although, saying merely that “we believe in them — we have, we do and we will.” Um, OK?
Will Tarik Cohen be a 1,000-yard participant once more for the Bears?
The do-everything working again has one yr left on his rookie contract, so the percentages on this are worse than you’d suppose. But a participant who touched the ball 143 instances on offense final yr goes to be given each alternative to succeed in 1,000 in 2020.
How ought to the Bears use their two second-round picks?
Trade them! Have you met Pace? Since his arrival, Pace has traded his first-round choose in 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020. He’s traded his second-rounder in 2016 (twice), 2017 and 2019. If Pace has a stable free-agent haul, he may rationalize dealing his two second-round picks to maneuver into the primary spherical and draft somebody who can begin straight away. Jimmy Johnson’s outdated draft commerce chart says the Bears may bundle Pick No. 43 and 50 to maneuver as much as … No. 19 general, the choose they gave the Raiders for Khalil Mack.
With related rosters, was the 12-Four season in 2018 or the 8-Eight season in 2019 extra reflective of what the Bears have?
Trubisky would possibly declare the Bears are shut, however the historical past of the franchise — which wakes up from mediocrity as soon as each 20 years — dictates in any other case. From 2010-19, the Bears averaged eight wins per season. From 2000-2010, they averaged — waiiiit for it — eight wins.