If you'll allow me, I'd like to use the final line of my Chicago Bears midseason superlatives as a launching point into another discussion here.
What I wrote as my kicker for Thursday, I believe, is an important measure of perspective as it relates to QB Mitch Trubisky, who quickly is becoming one of the more divisive studies in the NFL:
"He’s not as good as his draft status would suggest, and he’s not as bad as his critics would have you believe."
I truly feel that way.
Trubisky is 20 starts into his NFL career.