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When the Bears’ starting offense hardly played in preseason games in 2019 — with Mitch Trubisky taking three snaps without throwing a single pass — the offense’s sluggish performance in 10-3 loss to the Packers in the regular-season opener was so stark, even coach Matt Nagy acknowledged the error and vowed to try a different tack in 2020.
“I look back and I say if I could change something in 2019, it would be playing our starters more — 100 percent,” Nagy said in May of 2020.