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Dan Wiederer: Mitch Trubisky is struggling. Again. He's also hurt. Again. So now what?

CHICAGO - Mitch Trubisky seemed hurt. And not just a sore hip kind of hurt either. As the Bears quarterback stepped into a white tent outside the visitors locker room at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum late Sunday, he just seemed crestfallen. There was no way around it.

Trubisky had pulled the brim of his Bears baseball cap down low. The woe in his voice was obvious. The backpack slung over his shoulders seemed as if it might have been stuffed with a ton of bricks.

For about six minutes in that tent, Trubisky fielded more than a dozen questions about his night, about his hip injury, about the 17-7 loss to the Rams that ended with him alone on the sideline watching backup Chase Daniel oversee a forgettable seven-play, 6-yard drive.

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