Oye this whole thing is dumb. After rewatching the game I noted all the plays and how they ended up. Since screens are glorified runs I called them runs. The result was 37 'runs' to 19 passes. If you also lump in the quick hitting throws that are aimed to be quick drop back short yardage passes (and are really 3-7 yard passes), the number drops to 46 runs to 10 passes 5 of which came in the last 31 seconds.
The point being, the bears weren't throwing and when they were it was quick little passes. This open shit is meaningless. There are three plays in my mind he could have done better on: 1) the Cohen deep throw; 2) Gabriel throw - needs to riffle it in there; and 3) the Montgomery throw just before half on the fly route.
The game plan was to control the ball and not let the broncos flip the game with their edge rushers and corners. It worked albeit barely. There are things that need to improve, but the play in this game by Mitch is being largely overplayed. Had the Packers not been such a cluster, I think no one has a major issue with this one.