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film guru Robert Schmitz of Windy City Gridiron and stats guy Johnathan Wood of Da Bears Blog. We’re excited to be working together to bring fans of both sites great content by combining our approaches." Xs and OsVideoRoster AnalysisWho benefits most from an improved Trubisky deep ball?New Josh Bellamy Jersey ,24commentsThis is part of a series of collaborations between film guru Robert Schmitz of Windy City Gridiron and stats guy Johnathan Wood of Da Bears Blog. We’re excited to be working together to bring fans of both sites great content by combining our approaches.CDTJohnathan Wood, Da Bears BlogShare this storyShare this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShareAll sharing optionsShareAll sharing options for:Who benefits most from an improved Trubisky deep ball?TwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailPhoto by Stacy Revere/Getty ImagesPreviously, we’ve identified the deep passing game as one area where Mitchell Trubisky struggled in 2018. He missed a lot of throws to open targets, which resulted both in a low completion percentage and too many interceptions.However, we also showed that deep passing performance is highly variable, and thus Trubisky is likely to improve there in 2019.Today, we want to look at what targets would benefit most from that expected deep ball improvement, should it happen. In order to do that, I used Pro Football Reference’s Game Play Finder to look at what players Trubisky targeted deep most frequently in 2018. That information is shown in the table below for all five players who were primary weapons for the Bears in 2018.Johnathan WoodAllen Robinson was Trubisky’s most frequently targeted deep threat, but Anthony Miller got — by far — the highest portion of his total targets and yards from Trubisky on deep plays. Despite finishing 5th on the team in targets and yards, both by a healthy margin, he was 3rd in deep targets and 2nd in deep yards.So while a rising tide should lift all boats, Anthony Miller appears to be the one with the most to gain from Trubisky improving his accuracy on deep passes in 2019 http://www.thebearslockerroom.com/authentic-anthony-miller-jersey , especially if he is able to earn a larger share of the overall passing game in his sophomore campaign than he did while battling shoulder issues as a rookie.Now that we know what the data says, let’s verify its accuracy by looking at...The FilmAnthony Miller is a funny case to study, and Johnathan’s numbers above illustrate exactly what I mean when I say that. Why is Miller, a shifty receiver known for his route-running (and not his speed), apparently a deep target in Matt Nagy’s offense? This question’s answer may surprise you — Miller’s unusual abundance of deep targets doesn’t seem to come from his ability to get open deep, but rather because all the short targets that “should’ve” gone to Miller instead went to Allen Robinson. Think about it — how many times did you see plays like those shown below? (Data side note: Robinson saw 38% of his targets on slots and curls compared to just 15% for Miller).That’s right, when Trubisky and the Bears needed an 8-12 yard first down, they’d often shift Robinson into Miller’s slot position and call a one-read slant or curl route that, theoretically, Miller would’ve run otherwise. From a pure player perspective this switch makes plenty of sense — Robinson is literally a bigger person, giving him both a larger catch radius and a better ability to take hits over the middle, but the switch also takes away from Miller’s opportunity to produce in the short game and leaves him with the lopsided Deep Yards % numbers we see above. It may sound cliché, but there’s only one football to go around Womens Sherrick McManis Jersey , and with a developing sophomore QB in a brand-new offense that needed to keep things simple, Miller often found himself the 2nd or 3rd option on plays where the ball simply wasn’t going to come to him. Thankfully, he had a penchant for getting open deep that made him hard to ignore. Truly, the wildest part about Anthony Miller’s deep receptions making up 55.1% of his total yardage is that that number is wildly low compared to what it could’ve been — for some reason, most of Trubisky’s biggest misses on deep passes came when throwing to, you guessed it, Anthony Miller. Check out the plays I’ve listed below — if Trubisky hits these throws, Miller might’ve added 200 yards or more to his season, rocketing his Deep Yards % up to 69.5%+.With these misses in mind, and Miller’s subsequent loss of yardage from them, I can only assume that an improvement in Trubisky’s deep accuracy will benefit Miller the most. Unless Miller is able to wrestle away targets from Gabriel, his role will likely remain what it is — a flexible receiver that consistently sneaks behind defenses, punishing them for over-pursuing Gabriel and Robinson. Keep your eyes peeled on Da Bears Blog and Windy City Gridiron over the next few weeks for more from this collaboration! All the good work the Bears did last year might have been undone Charles Leno Jersey , simply because of the dramatic and traumatic way in which they lost their playoff game.But Bears coach Matt Nagy was actually encouraged by the way his team has responded to losing on the double-doink field goal miss against the Eagles, which was the anticlimactic end of an otherwise brilliant season.“[It was] their response to me of saying, ‘We were going to win the Super Bowl,’ ” Nagy said, via Dan Wiederer of the . “They believed that. But now they also realize it’s not easy.”“I wasn’t sure, after a loss like that, how they were going to handle it,” Nagy said. “Because they are young. So are they upset and deflated and disappointed? Yeah, they are. But they were actually more positive and more [eager] to get back [to Halas Hall], which fired me up.“In that game, with the way we lost, there’s a natural reaction to almost feel sorry for yourselves as players and coaches that, ‘Man http://www.thebearslockerroom.com/authentic-joel-iyiegbuniwe-jersey , we were so close.’ But, no, [it was], ‘We’re going to use this now as a motivation.’ That’s what’s fun to me, knowing we have guys on this team who truly care.”Nagy said his next challenge is to make sure his team did not take last year’s success for granted.“That’s going to be my biggest challenge as the head coach — to make sure there’s no complacency,” he said. “One of the fun parts in my position is being able to be creative and find ways of how do you do that. You’ve got to be motivational, but you can’t be monotonous with it.”That’s a much better concern than worrying about how to rebuild, because after going 12-4 last year, the Bears have had a taste of the success Nagy hopes becomes traditional.