The aren't who we thought they were. We thought they were on the rise, but still feeling their way through a rebuilding proce s. We thought they'd be competitive, but still not ready to compete with the and in the NFC North. We thought, after they rode their defense to victories in two of their first three games, would hold the Bears back from reaching -- that he'd prevent the Bears from breaking their playoff drought.We might've been wrong. The Bears might've already finished the rebuilding proce s. The Bears might be ready to win the NFC North right now. Trubisky might be good enough to help the Bears reach the promised land. Such great heights might be attainable. After their absolute demolishing of the on Sunday (the final score was 48-10), the Bears are 3-1. They've won three games in a row. They've outscored their competition by 46 points. They're still in first place in the NFC North.We already knew the Bears' defense, which , was playoff-worthy. Questions, however, persisted on the other side of the ball after Trubisky slogged his way through the first three weeks. Against a very bad Buccaneers' defense, Trubisky finally erupted. More NFL Trubisky began the game with nine touchdowns in 15 career games. In Kent Bazemore Jersey the first half alone, as the Bears constructed a 38-3 lead, he threw for 289 yards, five touchdowns, no interceptions, and a perfect 158.3 pa ser rating. At that point, he had more touchdowns than incompletions.Trubisky became the first quarterback since in 2014 (against the Bears in a game that Chicago has likely purged from its memory) to He would throw one more in the second half to bump his total to six. For context, consider that a Bears quarterback hadn't thrown five touchdowns in an entire game since the years of Trubisky's final statline looked like this: 19 of 26 for 354 yards (13.6 YPA), six touchdowns, no interceptions, and a 154.7 pa ser rating. That'll work. So will this: Trubisky's stats through 4 games: 91/130 (70%) for 945 yards (7.3 ypa) with 8 TD, 3 INT, and a 101.6 pa ser rating. If you extrapolate that to a 16 game season it's roughly 3800 yards, 32 TD, and 12 INT. Johnathan Wood (@Johnathan_Wood1) We'll start from the beginning, because the Bears have now scored touchdowns on three of their four opening-game drives. On Sunday, Matt Nagy's early game-script proved to be unstoppable again. They started with a quick screen to on the outside. picked up four yards on second down. Trubisky converted on third down with a sneak. From there, the Bears used a zone-read with Trubisky to acquire 23 more yards. Off play-action a couple plays later, Trubisky spotted , who also had a Bill Walton Jersey big block to spring Trubisky's scamper, open down the right sideline. The Bears led 7-0 via this 39-yard strike. THIS is what we're talkin' about! hits for a 39-yard TD on the opening drive Carmelo Anthony Jersey of . Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) The Bears' opening-game drive chart now looks like this: 10 plays, 86 yards, TD10 plays, 96 yards, TD12 plays, 47 yards, mi sed FG6 plays, 75 yards, TDBefore Sunday, Trubisky rarely found succe s after the opening series. It looked as if that would be the case again when he mi sed an easy throw on the Bears' second series and then took a sack. But on the Bears' third drive, Trubisky made the best throw of his sophomore season to take a 14-0 first-quarter lead. Patiently waiting for the routes to develop, Trubisky weighted a pa s to in the corner of the end zone. This isn't Nagy scheming up an easy touchdown. This is a quarterback throwing his covered receiver open by putting the ball in the one spot the trailing defender couldn't acce s. . 's 2nd TD of the first quarter! hauls it in. : FOX NFL (@NFL) The Bears went to and Tarik Cohen on their third-scoring series. After the Buccaneers answered with a field goal, the Bears marched right back downfield. Similar to how Sean McVay schemed open in the red zone on Thursday night, Nagy got Cohen isolated in coverage in the red zone. Trubisky scored a hat-trick early in the second quarter. This is all scheme: The play that got us rollin'! 1018 for 33 yards. | Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) LIGHTNING STRIKE! Trubisky gets it to Cohen to make it 21-3 . Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) After making Cohen a focal point, Nagy turned him into a decoy. Trubisky's fourth touchdown was all about Cohen distracting the Buccaneers' defense from the real threat. The Bears made it look as if Trubisky would be hitting Cohen quickly for a screen, but went up top to instead. Two Buccaneers defenders hounded Cohen at the line of scrimmage while Bellamy slipped through unnoticed. Like the prematurely celebrating a 3-pointer, Cohen knew it was a touchdown before Trubisky even released the ball: #10's makin' it RAIN! This one goes to . | Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) Impre sive Rick Tarsitano (@RickTarsitano) How's this for scheme? On Trubisky's fifth touchdown, Nagy put backup quarterback in the backfield alongside Trubisky. The snap went to Trubisky, but the ball left his hands a split-second later as Gabriel came acro s the formation and Gary Trent Jr. Jersey gathered Trubisky's hot-potato "pa s." Magic Mitch This to s to Gabriel makes 5 for him in the 1st half. Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) At halftime, the Bears led 38-3. They could've sat Trubisky if they wanted to and let him watch the rest of the game from the bench, but they let him rack up the stats instead. With good reason. Entering the game, he was a young quarterback in crisis. The openings had been there during the first three weeks, but he was neither seeing them nor hitting them. Nagy's scheme hasn't been an i sue. It'd been on Trubisky for failing to execute. With Trubisky finally seeing and hitting the openings, the Bears let him keep on doing that during the second half. He threw his sixth touchdown early in the third quarter. Six so far. One more, and #10 has a team record. | Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) He really wasn't afforded the chance to tie the NFL record with his seventh touchdown. With the Bears in time-wasting mode the rest of the way, Trubisky finished with six touchdowns.This Bears offense has always had the right personnel and play-caller to explode. But it's impo sible to explode when a quarterback isn't seeing what he should be seeing. Trubisky's eyes finally went where they needed to. And the Bears' offense took flight. Robinson got involved with that touchdown. Cohen exploded for 174 yards on 20 touches. The Trubisky-Gabriel connection was unstoppable. When throwing to Tarik Cohen and Taylor Gabriel today, Mitch Trubisky is 14-of-15 for 225 yards and 3 touchdowns. Kevin Fishbain (@kfishbain) Yes, this all happened against a bad Buccaneers defense Al-Farouq Aminu Jersey , but this is still an important sign of progre s. The Bears couldn't do much of anything offensively against a bad defense a week ago. Beating up on bad defenses is what good offense