Vegas Isn’t Buying Matt Nagy’s Lofty Expectations for Bears’ Offense

After the Chicago Bears snuck into the playoffs last season, head coach Matt Nagy bought himself another year at the helm. 

Despite having one of the league’s top defensive units, the Bears haven’t lived up to expectations under Nagy, and now that the Mitch Trubisky era is over, Nagy has to prove he can develop Justin Fields if he wants to keep his job. 

While both Nagy and the Bears have continuously endorsed Andy Dalton as the team’s starting quarterback, WynnBET’s odds for the league’s passing leader and NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year are foreshadowing that Fields will make the majority of the starts for the Bears this season. 

“I think what we've put together— Ryan Pace has done such an amazing job of building the last three years— this roster that we have, we have a lot of depth,” Nagy said on the Under Center Podcast. “And so now to be able to have the time to put together, we feel like we're going to have a great opportunity offensively to to do what we need to do. The time is now, we know that and we're looking forward to it.

"Now we're just really excited to see our players grow. We think we did a great job in the draft and bringing in some young talent, in particular on the offensive side of the ball. So we'll see. But we’ve got to do it. And it's only a couple of weeks around the corner.”

Nagy has some major expectations for the Bears on the offensive side of the ball this season, but WynnBET isn't so sure about Chicago. 

The Bears' odds to be the highest-scoring offense in the NFL this season are+10000, which is tied with several teams for the second-worst odds on the board.

Even though the Bears rallied to an 8-8 record in 2020, WynnBET doesn’t have them improving much on that record in the NFL’s 17-game season in 2021. Chicago is projected to win 7.5 games with the over (-115) as the favorite to the under (-105), but an 8-9 campaign likely wouldn’t be enough to make the playoffs in the NFC. 

The Bears also have -240 odds to miss the postseason for the second time under Nagy, which does not bode well for his future with the franchise. 

Maybe the Bears will have something special up their sleeve, or Fields will be an up-and-coming star from day one, but last year’s 26th-ranked offense is going to need to take a major step forward to deliver on Nagy’s expectations in 2021.

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