The Bears embrace taking part in in prime time. Just being scheduled at night time, they are saying, means they’re doing one thing proper.
Now they simply want their quarterback to play properly in a prime-time sport. That hasn’t occurred but, whilst Mitch Trubisky is getting ready for his seventh profession night time sport Monday on the Redskins.
Judging by passer ranking, Trubisky is an above-average quarterback at midday, a below-average one in midafternoon and, properly, a sizzling mess at night time.
In six profession night time video games — two Monday, one Thursday and three Sunday — Trubisky has accomplished 122 of 200 passes for 1,002 yards, with 5 touchdowns, 9 interceptions and a 63.Four passer ranking.
That’s Moses Moreno territory.
Trubisky has thrown a couple of landing solely as soon as at night time — final season towards the Seahawks — however a couple of interception 3 times. Amazingly, the Bears are 3-Three in these video games, although that’s Trubisky’s worst successful proportion of any begin time.
Trubisky has a successful document — 9-8 — and a 96.7 passer ranking in video games that begin at midday Central time. In late-afternoon video games, Trubisky has a 81.Four passer ranking and a 4-1 document.
The NFL common for all video games this season is a 93.9 passer ranking, the best for the reason that league started.
Sample-size caveats are price contemplating when detailing Trubisky’s struggles at night time. Two prime-time video games have come towards the rival Packers and one other two, together with his first profession begin in 2017, have come towards the Vikings. The Bears have been “flexed” into two Sunday-night video games final season as a result of the Vikings and Rams have been tougher-than-average opponents.
On the opposite hand, 5 of Trubisky’s six prime-time video games have taken place at Soldier Field. The sport Monday at FedEx Field will mark the primary time Trubisky has performed a street sport in prime time with out a whole offseason to organize for it. His solely different street night time sport was the 2018 season opener in Green Bay.
Trubisky’s prime-time efficiency is an alarming development for a participant whose brutal third season already has been picked aside for 2 consecutive weeks. Coach Matt Nagy has spent that point attempting to emphasize the Bears’ offense is about a couple of participant, however he is aware of the coach and quarterback at all times get an outsized share of each the credit score and the blame.
‘‘A big game like that, where it’s a Monday-night sport — everybody’s watching, there’s no different video games occurring — you may’t make it larger than what it’s, for my part,’’ Nagy stated. ‘‘Using the Green Bay [opener two weeks ago] — the first game of the year, big game, everybody’s watching, proper? — I felt like . . . everybody might’ve been a bit higher in attempting to make issues occur and the way we dealt with that sport.
‘‘So we’ve been utilizing that as, ‘Let’s use how we went about Game 1 on the massive stage . . . and the way will we get higher the subsequent time we’re on that stage.’’
They should. After Monday, the Bears will play 4 extra video games at the hours of darkness, beginning with a 6 p.m. London time kickoff in Week 5 towards the Raiders. They’ll play on ‘‘Sunday Night Football’’ in Week 11 on the Rams and in Week 16 towards the Chiefs and on ‘‘Thursday Night Football’’ in Week 14 towards the Cowboys.
‘‘There’s a bit bit extra perspective once you’re taking part in on Thursday night time, Sunday night time, Monday night time,’’ receiver Allen Robinson stated. ‘‘You know the whole world is watching. There’s just one sport on at the moment.’’
On Monday, all of them will likely be watching Trubisky.