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Dan Wiederer: As Mitch Trubisky's struggles compound, the Bears stare their worst-case scenario in the face

CHICAGO - It was just past 7:30 Sunday night when Mitch Trubisky trudged into his postgame news conference at Soldier Field. His expression was blank and his tone appropriately glum. A 36-25 home loss to the undermanned Saints had been that jarring, that dispiriting.

It almost felt as if a tornado had touched down on the Bears' 2019 season, demolishing everything. The free-spirited fun. The grand hopes. The belief that this was a young and emerging team capable of sustaining its success for three or four years.

Yet here was the starting quarterback, age 25 and not even halfway into his third season, making his first assessment of the startling wreckage.

For a little more than eight minutes, Trubisky fielded questions about his shaky performance and

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