Haugh has had some recent bad Bears thoughts. The other day, in discussing the running backs, he said that he was okay losing Howard because the Bears have had precedent for rookie running backs doing well, namely Anthony Thomas and Matt Forte. Those guys have ZERO relevance to this coaching staff or team!

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I don't even care how he looks in the pre season games.

regular season is all that matters

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His only consistent problem, that he hasn't shown much improvement on, has been those deeper timing patterns. He's either gotta show improvement on those or they need to shelve them.

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Completely agree. Pre season matters not. There will be way too much angst over preseason stuff. Only thing that will matter in preseason is the kicking game. Everything else is pointless.

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even that is kind of pointless

I don't trust what a kicker does until he is faced with game day pressure and opponents. I'm not going to sit there completely comfortable with our kicking game until our guy is 8 or so games into the season. Then I might start to trust. I say this feeling pretty good about Piniero.

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I agree with that for the most part. I was just meaning that really the only true competition for this team is at K, so the games will matter from that stand point as to which one will be sticking around.

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There is a nice pass on Twitter where he perfectly threaded a needle to Gabriel the first day of practice. He's connected with Robinson on everything. Outside of that his touch on deep passes haven't been great.

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Though I haven't been in a few years I always enjoy it. But I did take my 2 sons years ago. They hated it. It was one of those hot and humid days which was likely part of the reason.

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Hub also said yesterday that Mitch has looked bad so far in camp.

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Hub was referring to deep balls. He talked about it again this morning. I was there the 2nd day of camp. You won't find a negative comment about (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky from Day 1. Day 2 the offense wasn't good because others put the ball on the ground. The only knocks on (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky you will find on Day 2 is his interception to Jackson and maybe pulling the ball down too soon a couple of times. Whatever happened after Day 2 doesn't make my statements wrong.

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Hub specifically said today that (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky has been having trouble completing passes beyond "10 or 15 yards". So he's struggling with intermediate AND deep passes, and that's not good.

Let's hope he is able to improve by the season opener. The Bears aren't going anywhere in the playoffs if (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky is the same player he was last year.

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Spoken like someone not expecting a playoff berth.

Which ultimately matters the most.

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Mitch had a mediocre training camp last year and followed that up with a mediocre regular season...

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He didn't say that, I was listening. Again, nothing I posted was wrong. You haven't provided any evidence to dispute that.

Mitch was awful last training camp by all accounts. "Uneven" is the worst criticism he's received this year. If (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky is bad, I will admit it.

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Hub has made several recent appearances on the Score. In one of them, he specifically mentions (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky's difficulty completing passes beyond "10 or 15 yards". Other Score hosts and reporters have said that Mitch "is off to a slow start" or "hasn't been sharp".

I'm sure you believe that your assertion that Mitch looks "really sharp" is correct. The fact is, though, that multiple people contradict your claims.

I haven't watched the practices, so I am simply relaying accounts of what has taken place in training camp. Your description is anomalous, not representative.

In general, it appears that the Bears offense has floundered against the defensive starters--so much so that some Score hosts have suggested Nagy will need to pit the 1st-team offense against defensive backups in order to get the offense effectively installed.

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I like to dump on Mitch as much as anyone but it's training camp. Defense is always ahead of the offense. Packers 1st team defense is dominating their first team offense too so far.

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Your comments are a bit of a non sequitur, but you can rest assured that I am aware of the challenges NFL offenses often face early in training camp.

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Odd response

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So you haven't found anything from anyone who said (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky was uneven or struggling before 9:31am on Sunday? I didn't think so.

Here is one of many comments you can find by people with a blue checkmark. You can even pay for Hubs first day thoughts.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JJStankevitz ... 5695288320

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Wow, you really seem to have a lot invested in "being right" about Mitch's first day performance. I'm not really talking about that--I'm just reporting observations about training camp as a whole. Mitch has been disappointing, and you are weirdly defensive. Maybe you should take another few months off from the board.

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Midget on the muscle!

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I'm sure you'll give me a hand with taking more time off. I don't have anything invested. I made an observation at the beginning of Sunday's practice based on what I had seen before 9:31am. I tried to politely point out that everyone on Twitter said that the offense got the best of the defense on Day 1 and (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky didn't throw a pick. You could have searched Twitter or dropped it because it is ultimately meaningless, but like some weird crazy dude, you refused to let it go. No matter how you slice it, I was correct.

I would hope that you could cut it if you were the Bears starting quarterback. Seeing the Bears win is important to me. Being a miserable asshole and praying that (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky is awful appears to be important to you. It's really sad and pathetic.

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I'm simply relaying media assessments of (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky's training camp performance. You seem upset about that.

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I have to hand it to you, not even Packers fans are as obsessed with (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky sucking as you are.

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I don't think (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky sucks. But I do think he needs to improve significantly in order for the Bears to advance in the playoffs. Hopefully he can do so.

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Wanny was on with Mac and Parkins yesterday after watching the Bears practice.

He was very impressed with our wide receivers.

Said they were making a lot of acrobatic catches.

They had to, he added, because Mitch wasn't throwing the ball very accurately.

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Who do you believe Hub or Wanny? I would probably lean Wanny because while no one said Mitch was awful they didn't say he played well either.

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If I took my meatball hat off for a second there are some things to be concerned about. Listening to Nagy talk he clearly isn't satisfied with where Mitch is at. He said he was making "baby steps" yesterday. That's not exactly a compliment. Then hearing someone else say that Mitch does everything really well but they don't think he knows what he's looking at yet.

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Honestly what do you expect. This was the best defense in the NFL by a pretty wide margin last year. They are returning most of the key starters except Amos. And they are replacing him with a safety that played with Jackson at Alabama.

This defense should decimate the offense at this point.