He's just gonna keep doing it until he's fired. He's made bad roster decisions for 7 years. Now he's penned himself into a corner, and the only way out is to make good roster decisions. And since he can't do that, he's going to have to keep screwing future years to save himself from the current one. You gotta question how the Bears' brass doesn't recognize this and see someone incompetent just spiraling further down.
Also, since we're talking Pace and Nagy: Jay Cutler gave his opinion on the two, being very effusive in his praise for Nagy, Nagy's offense, and saying that the players like him. He said that Nagy "can only work with what he's given", and that Pace's history of draft picks has been bad. Now, as much as I am loathe to agree with Cutler... he's not wrong. Pace has given Nagy no offensive line, a mental midget QB, and had to scrape together even adequate weapons. I don't agree with the way Nagy has put the roster to use, but no doubt he's been hamstrung by Pace. And that's what makes the idea that Pace's employment will survive Nagy's all the more frustrating.
Not to be a broken record, but money. Revenue. Fans putting butts in seats and the cop-out of "but covid." You get half empty stadiums this year (doubtful with idiots wanting to live their best lives with Covid/have some die ironically), no or flexed prime time games (they're slated for 4 Sunday night/Thanksgiving/Monday games presently), and general apathy from fans, like with Trestman and kind of with Fox--just general indifference with them. Brad Biggs suggesting they'll do the same with Robert Quinn. What are you clearing up cap space for? Before restructuring Graham, they were cap compliant with just under 4 mil in cap space, and Breshad Perriman is 880K in salary per Spotrac. NSimba Webster is $850K. Both together had the bears at 1.9 mil in cap space. Both were affordable regardless of shifting money around. This goes back to shitty ownership. McKaskeys see the trends and decided to make a change to turn the bears into an offensive team instead of a constant defensive team. They hired Pace from New Orleans because in the early/mid 2010s when you think offensive juggernaut, the Saints have to be in your top 3 teams that come to mind--but he wasn't bringing Peyton or Brees with him before hiring Nagy--who wasn't bringing Mahomes, Alex Smith, or Andy Reid with him. Pace forms the roster, and that's out of Nagy's control. What Nagy again deserves blame for--is the inability to do even the simplest things successfully. When the bears gain more than 2 yards, it just looks painful to watch while every other team gets chunk plays/can find even a little rhythm with ease. It makes me sick to admit this, but this is where John Fox is better than Nagy. Fox knew he had a shitty offense, two solid offensive linemen (Sitton and Kyle Long), a midget mentally/physically as OC, but found rhythm running Jordan Howard before having Jay/Barkley/Mitch look semi-competent in play-action or Mitch just running without a spy on him during his rookie year. He had the offense tailored to his personnel. It makes me sick how Nagy can't be half as effective with Monty behind Whitehair/Daniels/Mustipher until late in the year when defenses are banged up and play calling has to be taken away from the ego maniac and into the hands of Bill Lazor, who's career has been made out of having an average QB throw to an outstanding WR. One of the many egregious offenses was when the #2 pick overall at Qb says he's afraid to ask Nagy what to do when he doesn't understand plays/the playbook.
Might be what bothers me the most. We consistently watch teams move the ball, often with ease. I see open receivers get hit with passes all the time. When you watch the Bears...it seems like every play is a battle. Every pass is challenged. It's beyond fucking frustrating.
Nailhead, meet hammer. Not only is he going to keep doing this, he's getting worse. First it was just a void year here or there, then it was 2, now with Graham's contract there are FOUR void years. If im right that means the Bears will still be paying Graham 4 years after his contract has finished. Pace is going to be fired at some point, its inevitable. But when he does finally go he's gonna leave behind the mother of all cap nightmares. You're probably looking at 2years(or more) of total suckage before you even start the rebuild. Fuck i hate Pace.
