It isn’t easy being Matt Nagy these days. As far back as January, it was evident that most Chicago Bears fans wanted him gone. The backlash on George McCaskey’s decision to keep him as head coach was downright venomous. Fans didn’t want another year of bad offense coupled with way too many instances of him getting outcoached. They don’t care about his character and the fact he managed to pull the team out of a six-game losing streak. Those aren’t things that matter to the bottom line.
The reality is Nagy has done nothing to show he is “about solutions” as he so often likes to say. At least on the offensive side. His system is dead last in the NFL right now and was dead last in 2020 prior to Bill Lazor taking over the call sheet. Yet every time people watch him in press conferences? It is the same word salad over and over. It looks like he is saying something but in reality, he is saying nothing. One Bears fan, Christopher Karn, has seen enough. He relayed this excellent mashup video on Twitter.
That sums it up, doesn’t it?
Matt Nagy is going to protect his players and assistant coaches. That is fine. Yet some of his decisions in the name of gamesmanship are just baffling. They seem so unnecessary to the bigger picture. Maybe that’s part of his problem. He is so obsessed with everything being just right with his offense that it’s impossible for it to function. Too rigid. Not enough flexibility.
There are many reasons to explain why all of this has been such a colossal failure. In the end, it boils down to this. Nagy sold the Bears on the idea he could replicate the offensive success he saw happen in Kansas City. The problem is his capabilities as a coach don’t measure up to Andy Reid. It’s sad that it took over three seasons to figure this out.
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