Matt Nagy won Coach of the Year in 2018 and he deserved it. Now? It feels like the Chicago Bears head coach could get fired this coming January and no that’s not a joke. This is how bad things have turned for this team in the space of just a few months. His game management has been atrocious from the gimmick plays on 3rd and shorts to the inability to understand how the clock works. Yet it all comes back to the offense. A unit that was supposed to be his baby.
Ready for a pitiful stat? The Bears defense has allowed 17 points or fewer in a game seven times this season. Chicago is now 4-3 in those games after falling 17-7 in Los Angeles. That is absolutely inexcusable and Nagy is looking like the primary reason more than ever. The Bears receiving corps leads the league in dropped passes and appeared to have six more in this loss. The offensive line can’t generate any sort of movement on the ground.
Then there is Mitch Trubisky. The biggest disappointment of all. Nagy hasn’t been able to get him going all year and things finally seemed to reach a breaking point when the head coach benched the 25-year old with three minutes left in the game despite only being down 10 points. Shortly after it was reported that he was dealing with a hip injury.
However, a lot of people weren’t buying that. Nagy was seen giving Trubisky an extensive talking to on the sideline before the switch to Chase Daniel was made. Then after the game ended, the quarterback walked off the field without any noticeable limp. It was a baffling decision that goes together with an increasing number of them from Nagy this year. It genuinely feels like the coach is in over his head.
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Matt Nagy may be coaching for his job down the stretch
Not winning games is one thing. Every team struggles through some hardship but it’s the source of the hardship that should concern Nagy the most. The Bears defense is not to blame for this 4-6 record the team is dealing with. They’ve given up more than 20 points just three times this season. Teams should not have a losing record when something like that happens. Only Chicago seems to find a way. This entire disaster was blamed on Trubisky for the first half of the year.
Nagy can’t hide anymore. He must be held accountable.
The man has been unwilling to change his ways as a play caller and is also unwilling to give the call sheet to somebody else. As a result, the offense hasn’t changed. Odds are it won’t over the final six games either. At that point, he won’t have a lot of leverage aside from his expensive contract to convince the team that he deserves another season. He was hired to build an offense in Chicago and he’s done nothing of the sort.
If anything he’s wasted his time throwing away yet another great defense. That is something that cannot and should not be forgiven.
