Welcome in to another edition of the Under Center podcast. I'm J.J. Stankovitz for NBC Sports

Chicago and joined by Mark Shonowski. Mark, we're sitting outside. It's a beautiful day.

Beautiful October day. Sun is out. Sun is shining. Mitch Trubisky is the starting quarterback of the

Chicago Bears. How could it be any more perfect? I think that's why the sun is shining over

the Hallis Hall, although I guess we're supposed to get some rain tomorrow. But hopefully by Monday

night it's all cleared up and the rookie's going to have a fast field to try to show what he can do

because we've heard so much how the offense is going to change with Trubisky under center. What we saw during the preseason was his ability to extend the play

by getting out of pressure, his ability to throw accurately on the run. And those are qualities

that the offense is not seen with Mike Lennon at quarterback. And the fans have been waiting to see

this rookie ever since the draft when he was selected number two overall. I'm sure there's going to be some growing pains along the way, but the reality of it is

Mitch Trubisky is the future of the franchise. I think with the team at one and three and where

they are with their offense right now, it's a perfect time to throw him in and let him grow.

Yeah, that's a very good summation of kind of where the bears are at right now with Mitchell Trubisky.

I think what's interesting, if we're kind of getting into what the offense is going to look like,

it isn't going to be so drastically different with Trubisky in there instead of Mike Glennon.

It's not like every single play Trubisky is going to be rolling out and moving the pocket.

He's not going to be running a boot on every play. But the ability to do that is something like you said, Mark,

that Mike Lennon obviously couldn't do. And that, I believe, is going to open up some more holes

for Jordan Howard. Because if you look at it, Green Bay, NFL's next-gen stats had Jordan Howard facing loaded boxes on 66.67% of his runs.

So two of every three runs Jordan Howard had against Green Bay came against a loaded box.

And that is no recipe for a running back to have any success.

And for the Bears' offense to have success, it's got to start with Jordan Howard.

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