Former GM Shows Why He's Unemployed With This Mitch Trubisky Take

Mitch Trubisky has critics. This is established and likely won't change anytime soon. A lot of people aren't willing to accept him as a quality NFL starter. This despite a Pro Bowl alternate honor last year that went with an 11-3 record and a division title. They need to see play closer to what Patrick Mahomes did last season to accept him, which is unreasonable, to say the least. Still, some of the criticism laid against him have gotten laughable.

Take a recent power ranking conducted by Mike Sando of The Athletic. His goal was to separate quarterbacks by tiers. The elites would be in Tier 1 and then moving down to Tier 3 where the unproven and downright bad were located. There were few surprises at the top with Mahomes, Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers all getting their names up early. Trubisky? He received his obligatory disrespect by claiming the 25th spot.

Now to be fair some of the sources quoted actually like him. They feel he's ascending in the right direction but still has some things to figure out. One of them though committed a monumental blunder when he raised his biggest concern about the Bears QB.

“He’s a 3, and I like what I see, but he is more in the Andy Dalton category to me,” a former GM said. “When you get to the playoffs and things get tough, I’m not sure. When he has to win the game for you, I’m not sure. You need the good run game, you need the receivers, you need the really good coach, you need the good defense.”

Former GM clearly didn't watch Mitch Trubisky in January

Not sure? Really? Trubisky had the best 4th quarter of his young career in the playoff game against Philadelphia back in January. Here's a guy who went into the final 15 minutes with his team trailing 10-6. He quickly got them a field goal to cut it to 10-9. Then on the next series, he delivers a touchdown drive that saw him deliver some of the prettiest passes he's yet thrown in his young career, regaining the lead 15-10.

If that weren't enough after the defense gave it back 16-15, Trubisky hit two big passes to get the ball into Eagles territory and set up his kicker Cody Parkey for a makeable 43-yard attempt with seconds left. Parkey missed it. Trubisky had thrown for 115 yards and a touchdown in the quarter. It's hard to ask for anything more from your quarterbacks than that.

Nevermind that he had a 95.7 passer rating in the 4th quarter all season.

The fact that this unnamed former GM failed to even acknowledge that proves his opinion wasn't really worth anything to begin with. He never really did much true digging on Trubisky. Sure, the guy isn't perfect but to blatantly say something about him that visual evidence debunks? This may explain why the guy didn't keep that executive position.