Matt Nagy Just Dug His Own Coaching Grave
Matt Nagy's tenure as Bears head coach was coming to an end well before Chicago's embarrassing performance against the Vikings on Monday night. After it, you have to wonder how any franchise would let this man near their players again. Not after the product he just put on the field.
The Bears were sloppy, unorganized, inefficient and basically unwatchable in their 17-9 loss to the Vikings. They fumbled the ball three times, turned the ball over on down three other times, missed a field goal, scored under 10 points and had over 90 yard in penalties. They are the first team to do all of those things in NFL history.
Of course, a lot of the blame for any performance like that has to fall on the head coach. But Nagy deserves even more blame because, once again, he was calling the offensive plays last night.
Matt Nagy said he did call the plays tonight.
— Mark Grote (@markgrotesports) December 21, 2021
That's been an ongoing saga with the Bears under Nagy. He's flip-flopped between him calling plays and his offensive coordinator calling them. Last night Bears offensive coordinator Bill Lazor out yesterday because of COVID, so once again it was Nagy on the headset.
Let's take a look at how that's worked out for the Bears:
leaving this here for the record... the Bears hired Bill Lazor as offensive coordinator in 2020
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) December 21, 2021
games as play caller:
Nagy: 13 games
Lazor: 17 games
points per game scored:
Nagy: 17.5 ppg
Lazor: 22.6 ppg
games with 24+ points:
Nagy: 2 games
Lazor: 8 games
And that, my friends, is why Nagy is currently unemployable even as an offensive coordinator in the NFL right now. Hell, I wouldn't want him as my quarterback coach, the other job he held before this. After all, Nagy failed to develop Mitch Trubisky into a competent quarterback and alienated Trubisky and fellow QB Nick Foles last season. This year he insisted on handing Andy Dalton the starting QB spot over first-round pick Justin Fields and, since Fields took over as a QB, hasn't put him in the best positions to succeed.
In the NFL, that's what players want, to be put in a position to make a play. Nagy has consistently not accomplished that for quarterbacks or anyone on offense. And offense is his specialty.
The time for finger pointing is over. The time for humility has come. Matt Nagy is not worthy of a coaching job in the NFL as things stand today and he has himself to blame.