This month of OTAs and next week’s veteran minicamp are, for the Bears’ offense, largely about building a foundation for Mitch Trubisky before training camp. That means learning Matt Nagy’s scheme as it gets installed in these shorts-and-helmets practices — sort of, as backup Chase Daniel put it, a “Football 101” lesson on a play-by-play basis.
But Trubisky can’t take 100 percent of the Bears’ practice reps. So enter Daniel and Tyler Bray, two guys each with an extensive knowledge of Nagy’s offense, to give Trubisky a different look of how and why a play is run.
“When you talk about stuff that’s on the field versus stuff that’s on-paper installs, it’s completely different,” Daniel explained.