Chicago Bears: Mitch Trubisky confident, defiant before Week 8 game

In his weekly press conference before the Chicago Bears’ Week 8 game, quarterback Mitch Trubiksy sounded confident and defiant about the state of the team.

Chicago Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky said last season that he doesn’t listen to the outside noise that surrounds the team. He claimed that he even shuts down his Twitter so he doesn’t know what people say about him and his team.

Well, it seems that he’s listening to at least some of the chatter. Considering how loud the criticism of the Bears and him has grown it’s impossible for him not to notice, no matter how hard he tries not to notice.

Things are so bad that people are entertaining thoughts of giving up on him this season. No need to wait another season or even another offseason, they want him out now.

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In his weekly press conference ahead of the team’s Week 8 matchup against the Los Angeles Chargers, Trubisky was edgy speaking to reporters. He was both confident that the offense will turn things around and defiant about the negativity and about the idea that head coach Matt Nagy lost confidence in him.

Trubisky was short and snippy with reporters. It started right from the beginning, per NBC Sports Chicago.

"“You guys good? I could not be here, that’d be easier for me.”"

Right from there, everyone knew this was Trubisky with a different attitude. He went on to talk about how the team still has the right mindset despite the struggles.

"“The guys in the locker room, we got a great attitude. Not everyone’s happy about it because we shouldn’t be, but we got a good opportunity to fix it and I think we have the right mindset to get back on track.”"

Trubisky spoke about his shortcomings. He spoke about making the right decisions and not having happy feet, something Nagy commented on in the Monday presser.

When asked about Nagy’s confidence in him, Trubisky insisted that it’s still there.

"“Nagy’s always got my back, no matter what. The fact that we have each other’s backs and we’re going to do it our way, it gives me a lot of confidence. It’s one of the reasons it makes coming to work every day still fun.”"

Trubisky showed that he hears the talk. He hears people say he’s becoming a bust. He hears people say the team needs to look elsewhere to salvage the season.

"“I know I can do better, my team deserves better.”"

I like this edgy Trubisky. People may think this is new but it isn’t. In the Washington game, Nagy went into him and told him to “Shut the f*** up” on the sideline before a third-down play. The offense struggled in the first quarter but, after that, Trubisky dominated the Washington defense, throwing three touchdowns.

When Michael Lombardi said he wouldn’t buy Trubisky if he was on the discount rack at Filene’s Basement Trubisky went out that week and crushed the Detroit Lions by going 23-for-30 for 355 yards and 3 touchdowns.

After what some considered his worst performance coming against the Los Angeles Rams last season in which he threw for only 110 yards and had three interceptions, he completed 76 percent of his passes in the rest of the regular season games without any interceptions, and he threw for over 300 yards in the playoff game, also interception-free.

It seems when someone lights a fire under Trubisky he goes out and plays very well. Hopefully, he does the same against the Chargers this week. Now if we could find a way to get him going like that before every game.