5 reasons the Chicago Bears can win with Nick Foles as QB

Nick Foles is not Mitchell Trubisky

This is really where the season is decided this year for the Bears, whether or nor Nick Foles can lead better than Mitchell Trubisky.

Let’s just cut to the chase: Yes, he absolutely can.

Of course, Cam Newton signing with the Patriots didn’t make the Foles trade anymore appealing to Bears fans, but Foles is still leaps and bounds better than Trubisky. Bears fans shouldn’t look at this as a case of missing out on Cam and see it as a chance to get away from Trubisky.

Foles has been in a system like Nagy’s before in Philadelphia and has shown he can step up when his team needs him too, most notably winning a Super Bowl with the Eagles after starting quarterback Carson Wentz went down for the season.

The biggest issue for Trubisky last season was his inability to use the Bears run/pass option (RPO) players correctly, causing head coach Matt Nagy to have to dumb-down his playbook for his quarterback after he was expected to expand it in 2019. And while Foles isn’t the athlete Trubisky is, his experience and previous knowledge of Nagy’s system might be enough for him to outright beat the former 2017 2nd overall pick for the job.

Foles doesn’t solve the long-standing problem in Chicago of the Bears needing a franchise quarterback. But he will help transition away from the latest failed experiment and allow the Bears to start over in the near future. And before you assume Foles is just a stop-gap that will lead to a high draft pick, remember what happened the last time he was called upon to lead a team as everyone waited for the bottom to fall out — it didn’t.