On Wednesday morning, Lombardi has another sobering evaluation of Trubisky, who played arguably the worst game of his career in the Bears' 36-25 loss to the Saints on Sunday.
"You can keep hoping that Mitch is going to turn it around, but it's just not going to happen," Lombardi said on the Mully & Haugh Show. "And you can't really run an offense where you can't really make any plays down the field. The most terrifying stat to me was Tarik Cohen's nine (catches) for 19 yards. I'd never seen that before in my NFL career. Like I'd never seen it before. How does a running back have nine catches and gain 19 yards?
"They do not have a receiver that averages over 12 yards per catch. Their longest pass play of the season is 37 yards. You can't win football games if you don't make chunks plays. MVP Mitchell has only completed six passes over 10 yards."
Lombardi believes the Bears need to move on from Trubisky as their starting quarterback sooner rather than later. And that means general manager Ryan Pace needs to admit his mistake in drafting Trubisky at No. 2 overall in 2017 ahead of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes at No. 10 and Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson at No. 12.
"You got to admit the mistake, which is horrible to admit, Lombardi said. "I understand. You just took a quarterback from the ACC who was second team and played one year (Trubisky) over a kid who started four years and was the best player in the conference and won a national championship (Watson). Somehow that logic never resonated with me before the draft, during the draft and after the draft. But it did to Pace. Now, Pace is going to have to own it up here. He's going down the same road Jacksonville went down (with Blake Bortles).
"Watch that (Bears) defense the other day. You think they're not disgusted with the offense? They had to play a doubleheader the other day. They had to play a doubleheader over in London (in the Bears' loss to the Raiders). They're playing doubleheaders all the time.
"What Ryan Pace needs is to surround himself with some really loyal people who will tell him what he needs to hear -- and not that Mitchell is going to get better in two weeks or that this is just the fault of the offensive line. Because I promise you, you put any (other) quarterback behind the Bears, the ball would start working down the field.
"It's like when I take my dogs to the vet. My dogs don't tell her what's wrong. The vet has got to figure it out. That's Ryan Pace's job. He's got to figure out what's wrong and the longer he continues to protect his pick, the longer the franchise is going down the tubes."