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What? You were there? Ok ...I am not sure what authority that grants you more than anyone else who can also watch it.
I watched it and I will tell you the defense had massive mistakes early but fixed it and demolished the Cardinals 3 out of 4 quarters (the 1st notwithstanding). Defense let him down? Defense won the fricking game.
If it was not for great plays, pressure, forcing INTs then any average offense could have merely picked up enough first downs and eaten clock to win ugly.
Trubisky was trash the first 3 weeks. For 9 drives, he had "scripts" ie what announcers call the plays Nagy designs that Mitch can do well because his first read is open and he knows the timing and where to go beforehand.
That is 9 drives out of 43 offensive possessions in the first 3 weeks where Mitch did not completely suck. All Bears offensive scores came in these drives but not all of these led to scores. The scoring was drying up by Week 3 due to the fact that DCs were onto the fact that a blitz will stop Trubisky cold because he had no checks or audibles and he was not progressing through reads yet at all. His awareness of blitzers and where he should attack pre-snap seemed utterly clueless.
"Play well around here"? Calling him trash in the first 3 weeks did not "play" well around here. It was dark times.
Now as to the whole year, if I remember right, he played like garbage first 3 weeks, tore it up in a few games over the next quarter season with some pedestrian efforts in-between and then after the injury and his Rams game,
he then settled into a decent run of solid play for 3 games in a row clinching the NFC North in there and bouncing the Vikings.
If that translates to a "pretty damn good year" for you, that's cool. I saw it as squarely 20's in QB ranking with obvious potential for better after a full year in this system.
I missed the part where I said being there granted me any special authority. As for the "dark times" that is just dramatic bullshit. I can give you a laundry list of players that are now considered great that would have killed to have the year Mitch had in 2018 early in their careers especially year one in a system.