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David Haugh: Bears restore hope by grasping obvious, promoting Mitch Trubisky

Inevitably arrived Monday when the Bears informed players that rookie quarterback Mitch Trubisky will replace Mike Glennon in the starting lineup, the right decision for a franchise decimated over time by so many wrong ones at the position.

Who had Week 5 in the pool?

This was a Tru calling, if you will, an obvious move that transforms the Bears from unwatchable to irresistible, a conservative team going nowhere suddenly letting its mind wander to all sorts of possibilities. There was only one way for the Bears to restore any

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