While Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky will spend this week — and the rest of his career — being compared to the likes of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the only thing the third-year signal caller is worrying about is his own development.

“It’s just the nature of the beast,” Trubisky said. “But I’m in competition with myself and just trying to be the best version of me to go out there and win games for the Chicago Bears. It’s just something I can’t control.”

This season was supposed to be another year of development for Trubisky where he showed that he has what it takes to be the Bears franchise quarterback. Instead, Trubisky has been inconsistent and there are legitimate questions about his future in Chicago.

But over the last month and a half, Trubisky has mustered six solid games — with two really impressive ones that highlighted his potential to be a good quarterback in this league. Not that it’s enough to erase all of the valid question marks earlier in the season. Flashes aren’t enough anymore, Trubisky needs to have consistently solid games, which is why these final two games are important for him.

Trubisky has faced plenty of adversity in his third NFL season, where he’s struggled with inconsistencies in a Bears offense that has been idle for most of the season. But it’s been his response to that adversity that has impressed Chiefs coach Andy Reid.

“His resilience there to keep battling like he did through the year, that’s something special,” Reid said. “And how he’s been playing good football.”

While Trubisky has been more frustrating than anything this season, the fact that he’s been able to string together six consecutive solid games is certainly encouraging. And if he’s able to continue that in these final games against the Chiefs and Vikings, maybe he’ll head into the offseason with more confidence and something to build on for 2020.