Matt Nagy understands the situation that faces his Chicago Bears with three games left. Hopes for making the playoffs are slim. In the past two weeks, the odds have hovered between 3% and 5%. Not exactly ideal. This is due in large part to the team being unable to win a number of close games over the past two months. The two that loom largest were against the Raiders and Chargers, both of which featured 4th quarter collapses.
This is a ditch of their own making and now they’re scrambling to claw their way out before it’s too late. The problem is they need help from elsewhere in order for that to happen. Sadly they didn’t get any on Sunday. Both the Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Rams who control the wild card spots in the NFC won their respective games. Unless they each somehow drop two of their remaining three, it won’t matter what the Bears do the rest of the way.
Nagy is fully aware of all this, but he made it clear it’s no excuse. His team can’t control what others do. All they can do is focus on winning their own games. The Bears need to win out the rest of the way. Only that will give them a reasonable chance to get where they want to go.
“We’re in a position now where we’ve gotta have help. But none of that matters if we don’t win. It means nothing. Let’s just control what we can control.”
Matt Nagy has the right perspective in this
Nagy has his fair share of critics but the guy understands what his job is. It’s to keep his players focused on the task at hand. That’s why he’s treating every week like its own miniature season. Their goal is to go 1-0 against the Packers. Then go 1-0 against the Chiefs and so on. That approach has helped them to win three of their last four. The team has momentum now and they intend to use it for all its worth. Their season is on the line every single week from here on out.
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Right now the other teams in the race aren’t feeling the pressure. Chicago can change that by climbing into the picture and force them to feel it. There is a chance, even if it’s not big that one of them will cave. Nagy wants his team to smell that blood and go after it. This is exactly the mindset the coach must have.
