Nagy is a dead man walking. The only thing that will save his job is a playoff run. And this team isn’t sniffing the playoffs. Let’s face it. Nagy has had playcalling stripped from him and had to be told to start the kid over Dalton. Sounds to me like a GM selling ownership his talent is being held back by the wrong coach. We will get our new coach but it will be the dumb fuck GM picking him once again.
So, I just found out that Eddie Jackson, in the wake of the Packers game, spent quite a bit of his time on Twitter (no surprise). Specifically, he was taking shots at Lance Briggs, who had called him out for poor tackling on the NBCSports aftershow. Then, Jaylon Johnson was complaining on Instagram this week about how the team fined him for being late to team meetings. Get Eddie Jackson the fuck off this team. His entitled, waste of space fucking attitude is ruining this team on AND off the field. A talent like Johnson needs an actual adult, professional, successful player to learn from - not this self-absorbed child that'd rather jerk himself off than do his motherfucking job. Eddie Jackson has very quickly catapulted himself into "most hated Bears players ever" conversation. Trade his ass for a bologna sandwich, get him off the fucking team.
I suspected it on some plays in the 2nd drive, then confirmed it as soon as I saw a diamond package. Bill Lazor may be limited, but its not his MO to dial up a play with that. Luckily, his cap hit is only 5 and change mil this year (per OTC), so maybe. You'd have to find someone incredibly desperate and Ejax and Jamal Adams are the 2 prime examples of how Safety is probably going the way of RB in terms of how much money gets paid on a 2nd/3rd contract. You can cut him as a designated post-June 1st cut and save 8ish mil, pre-June 1st you'd have to eat ~4 in dead cap. That's probably the only direction moving forward. Luckily, there are a few draft candidates I really like that the bears probably can get next Spring, not Kyle Hamilton from ND though--that dude's a top 10 pick, maybe top 5 when draft day hits next April. I like what I see out of Brisker from Penn State. Guy's a do-it-all coverage guy/box thumper.
What's the point of drafting a QB in the first round? When this entire organization from the GM, to the HC, to the o-line, to every WR/TE on the roster seem to be committed to ensuring that QB's failure. If Pace wasn't such a fucktard, the following players would be put on the trading block immediately: A-Rob Quinn Hicks Mack EJax Graham Kmet is a bum. A bust. A ND fraud. The last month has confirmed it. Can't get open, can't catch, can't run in the open field. A-Rob has straight quit on the team. I'm sure his agent will get some dumb team like the Jets or Texans to give him a huge deal, but he can't get off the roster fast enough. Please for the love of god trade him for a 7th round pick to anyone. Remember when we thought we had a good culture on this team? Then Wims punched someone. Then Miller punched someone. Then Nichols punched someone. Then Jimmy Graham through his teammates/coaches under the bus on instagram. Then EJax got butthurt because Lance Briggs called him out. Then JJ bitched about getting fined for breaking team rules. I told you all Nagy would lose this team and lost he has. The culture around it is toxic. Marshall and Cutler were unique divas but let's stop pretending Nagy has any more control over this team than Trestman did.
There’s absolutely no good reason Matt Nagy should have a job today. I don’t even care to break down anything from this game because what’s the point? This team is a joke.
Good news: at least I think you guys will like it. Naggy tested positive for COVID and won’t be available this week.
The saddest part is, there is a legitimate question of whether this or the Browns game was worse. This is Trestman level shit. I mean, I guess good on the Bears for stopping it from being a 50-burger, because they definitely didn't let off the throttle. And yet guys, look at the schedule. The 49ers game looks winnable, the Steelers are not good this year, 8-9 is not outside of the realm of possibility. This team sucks and will get the doors blown off like that, but will still hover in that middle of the pack mediocrity. This defense is good enough to win games on their own still, when it's not Rodgers and Brady throwing at them. And even if the Bears do fall completely apart, what do we get for it? A top 10 pick? No no, we traded that away for Fields. You look at the talent the Bucs have OUTSIDE of Tom Brady, and it's disgusting, they are a well built team, they are not the Packers which rely entirely on a great QB to cover all other flaws. THAT'S what a good GM does. Not our clown show. The absolute worst part though, is midway through the 3rd quarter, I asked myself, as I did last year, as I did in Trestman years, why the fuck am I even watching this shit? My answer, as it was for this season was to see how Fields progresses. And while I saw some good throws, I saw a kid getting completely murdered. Losing fumbles, getting hit, throwing up ints for grabs, WRs/TEs dropping passes the passes that were good. Then I see him sitting on the sideline, all alone, with a completely defeated look on his face. That look more than anything made me realize what we often worry about here, Nagy and company are going to ruin him, if they haven't already. Confidence completely destroyed. More sacks than anyone else in the league, even if some of that is on him. Fuck guys, he has performed worse than TRUBISKY did his inaugural campaign, there's no sugar coating that. It's too early to write him off by any means, but the path we are on here is almost guaranteed failure. At the end of the day, it isn't so much the score, as we knew that's something that could happen, it's that the worst case scenario is playing out live. Mediocrity in meaningless games saving jobs, like the end of year winning streak last year. Collaboration. Fuck this team.
Oh and lets not forget that the Cardinals, who are on fire, come to town in 6 weeks, so there's another chance for a mid-season firing of Nagy that won't happen.
- As bad as that scoreline was, the Bears, and particularly these joke ass coaches, should consider themselves damn lucky. Cos that game had 50+ written all over it. And while the D showed heart turning away 2 4th downs on the goaline in the 4th Q, the truth is the Bucs majorly let off the gas, got complacent, and left a of load of points on the field. Something Arians didn't hold back on in the post game presser when he unloaded on his team more than i've ever seen a coach do after a win that big. Lets compare that. Arians holding his Offense accountable when he knows they didn't meet the standard, even after a 35point win. Nagy, after his team gets the doors blown off them and has ANOTHER player ejected for punching, talks about how the last 24hours his team has grown so close and its just a beautiful thing to behold blah blah blah. GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE CUEBALL! GET OUT!!! See, one is a winner who knows exactly what he's doing, the other is a straight up bullshit artist with no actual clue. Exactly 2 years ago i went on record to call Nagy a fraud and yet here he still is. - From their very first possession Ryan Jensen was niggling and baiting trying to get a reaction. Now Jensen has a long rep as a dirtbag, but what this showed is the word is out on this team. Get in their grill and you can trigger them. Expect teams to do this to the Bears virtually every week now and like the stupid mopes they are they'll fall for it. - Maybe it was just bad timing etc, but every time the camera went to Fields on the sidelines he was sat alone, lost in his own thoughts. It looked completely counter-productive. Where were his coaches??! Where were his supposed mentor buddy QBs? I hope that was just a case of the camera missing it, cos it looked like shit which is why its so believable. - That might do for now. Cos F em.
He hasnt lost the team yet imo. Which is bizarre in its own right. But if they were mailing it in the D wouldn't have played as hard as they did the 2nd half. Twice they showed real heart keeping the Bucs out the endzone inside the 2. Yes the Bucs were lax, but on the running plays the Bears front 7 played harder than them. Now we could say they were doing it for each other or something, but in reality we all know when players check out on the coach, the lack of effort is glaringly obvious. And that just wasnt the case yesterday. Kinda wish it was tbh.
No one is in his corner. Ginger wasn't there. Nagy wasn't. None of his receivers were. None of them have his back anyway. Fuck em all. The question is why. Are they all selfish/don't care? Or has Fields done something to isolate, perhaps even alienate, himself from his teammates and coaches? The offense is completely devoid of leadership, and it's not like there's a shortage of vets around. Just another indicator Nagy doesn't have this team united and focused on a common goal. To me this is more indicative that some of the players on D still have some pride, regardless of how shit the situation is. I doubt there's a single one of them who would say they're playing hard for their coach or for "Be You" or Club Dub.
Did he really say this? I get trying to remain positive after you just had your ass handed to you, but there is nothing beautiful about it. Even in full on garbage time you couldn't put up points. Down 3 TDs, the Bears took a FG. That's the only reason this game wasn't a full on shutout. This offense sucks, has sucked, sucks with all different players, and the one constant in the past 4 years in the offensive guru who can't get his shit together. I really hope it's more like Ev is saying, and it's just bad timing from the cameras, but man, it was multiple times throughout the game. But even if there were teammates around him, it kind of doesn't matter. His face shows it all. Completely defeated. Visor fuck couldn't develop Trubisky, and now I do wonder if Trubs couldn't have made something of himself in a different situation. And I don't just mean coaching, I mean the talent surrounding too. I feel like we could draft the next Rodgers and it wouldn't mean dick, because we'd find some way to make him Cade McNown. Not that I in any way think we should have kept him, or that he did pan out, his career is over and had his chances. Now Fields is the next man up, to join the long list of Bears QB failures? Because he's not talented, or because this org doesn't know what to do with talent that does exist? I strongly think the latter. Play to your strengths, develop and grow. Instead we're going to get this kid killed and ruin him. The Bucs game shows exactly how far away we are from competing. Every other team the Bucs played, have put up double digits. The fucking DOLPHINS, with one win, put up 17. 3 points. The Bears only went for it on one other 4th down so they didn't even have the opportunity to put up OTHER FGs. 163 yards passing to 143 yards rushing. But don't worry, we'll beat the 49ers next week, be 4-4 and "in the hunt". Shit, if we can pull out a win against the Steelers, that's 5-4 at the bye and Nagy can talk about their upward trajectory. Fuck this team some more. Mediocrity forever.
If they've all checked out on the coach on D, but "some" of them are still playing hard out of personal pride.....your Defense still gets steamrollered. You can't just carry 3, 4, 5, however many guys on a play by play basis. When people start doggin it, assignments get blown, 1 on 1s are lost, TD's are scored. You certainly don't keep the opponent out on 4 downs from the 1. TWICE! Come on now. They came out after halftime down by 32points and gave up 1 FG all 2nd half. That is not a Defense that has quit on its coach. I hope it happens at some point, cos it has to be made completely obvious to these fuckface owners. But it didn't happen in Tampa.
All yesterday did was validate everyone who thinks Nagy, his scheme, his coaching staff, his decisions, his playcalling, his inability to flow with the game/adjust to realtime gameplay and overall game management sucks and wanted gone last year because its year 4 and you are the 'offensive guru' who still hasn't fixed the fucking offense. Once again Matt Nagy steals the show with his stupidity. He spent time in his presser talking about special packages/personnel he wasn't able to run being down 21-0. Meanwhile, somebody thought Lachevious Simmons could block one of Shaq Barrett/Pierre Paul while Justin Fields got killed because Nagy loves his fucking playcard, even though Fields threw a few shitty ones. They traded up because you had to have Justin Fields and they won't make the most important thing matter--which is putting him in a position to succeed by helping him see what he has to see and at NFL level speed and to have better than a 200 yard passing game from the QB. They failed utterly. Oh, and Justin Fields in cutaways after shitty plays is just sitting and sulking with nobody talking to him were great too. Really felt the 'collaboration' there. At the end of the day, good teams aren't this undisciplined. Good teams don't have guys doing what Mario Edwards did the past couple of weeks, or Bilal Nichols/Miller/Wims swinging at someone, or guys showing up late, or slap twitter fights with Lance Briggs. And they validated it again. I quit at the half yesterday. Pretty much expect more of that going forward, especially against the 49ers.
Yes, yes he did. Close like what? The Waltons close? Because they spent 24-48 canoodling and singing Kumbaya. Here it is
They are totally gonna beat either the 9ers or Steelers aren't they. Because that is what will best keep us mired in this mediocrity wasteland.
It is actually cringe to hear him speak anymore. I mean Nagy has always said dumb stuff in his pressers, but this is next level. Full on, flat out embarrassment to himself. Believes every word he says while having zero self awareness of just what gibbering nonsense he's talking.
100%. This team did beat the Raiders and the Bengals, both of whom are apparently much better than I thought. That's not to say they can't lose these games, or that they won't be close, but we stay on the Nagy/Mediocrity train with wins, so that's what will happen. Then we'll lose later in the season to the Giants or something. That clip is shocking to me, I also read this: The Bears' loss to the Bucs was bad. The position in which Matt Nagy put Justin Fields was worse. - which is also par for the course with this guy. I also hate our fanbase (outside of you guys here) - I am legitimately seeing "Fields is a bust" comments all over the place now. 5 starts for a rookie with a crap oline and horrific coach and that's it, all his talent is undevelopable, game over. I honestly have to ask, is this worse than Trestman? I don't believe Nagy has lost the locker room...yet. But Trestman's offense had more to it for all we rip on him, his statistical offensive rankings weren't anywhere near how bad Nagy has been. I'm seriously at the point where I don't want to watch games again, because my sole reason for watching this season after last year, was Fields development and I can't watch them ruin this kid. I paid for it, so I will check out the next several games but I don't expect things to change really.
...and this guy here when he says: "Get this asshole out of the city and away from the Chicago Bears for good. There's not one aspect of his leadership that appears to be intelligent. His play calling sucks. His players are undisciplined. His ego is unrivaled. The offense is a joke. And he can't put one coherent thought together unless everyone in the media is sucking his dick. The only good thing I can seem to say about him is that he seems to be enjoying himself." You know even a broken clock is right twice a day, because time after time, week after week this guy is being outcoached, and after 4 years his offense leaves you with more questions than it does answers. This guy was brought in to be this big offensive guru, and turn this team around, but after 4 years the only thing that has kept this team in mediocracy was the defense. When he said prior to the season that it takes 4 years to develop an offense, tell me aside from the front office and ownership, who actually bought this bullshit? When after 4 years the offense ranked on averaged 27th, and 29th over the last 3 years. Is there anyone minding the store and seeing these games going out the back door as losses, and that the offense is heading in the wrong direction? While I'd like to give credit where credit is due, it is in spite of this clown not because of him, the Bears made the playoffs last season, and all is well in Halasville. As this offense continues to languish at the very bottom of the league this season Nagy can redirect that blame on the rookie QB, and the ownership buys into it because they can't see the forest for the trees. Teddy might be quite accomplished in counting urinal pucks, but his ability to hold coaches accountable for their incompetence is excused just as long as Virginia's ability to slide those nickels into her little change purse isn't compromised.
Matt Nagy announced that he tested positive for COVID-19 and that he has been ordered to stay as far away from Halas Hall as possible. It might actually be a good week of football for a change.
