It's like a dictator asking his advisors if he should step down from leadership. No, "we" think that's not a good idea. Fuck off Nagy.
Nagy's play-calling has been predictable since late in the 2018 season. The Bears averaged 28.7 points in the first 12 games of Nagy's tenure. In the 28 games since -- including a wild-card round loss to the Eagles in January 2019 -- the Bears have averaged 18.2 points per game.
We all know it's Pace's call. Nagy saying, "I'm open to it but we don't feel it's needed" is like your boss saying, "I could step down and make you the boss, but none of us want that, clearly". The only one who can actually make Nagy do anything is Pace. So do it, Pace. F***.
I wrote my response before I read this post. Your analogy is better. Agreed. Pace, you can fix this. You won't, but you can.
I don’t think this is the blow up season. I think we win 9-10 games and miss the playoffs. Next year with tough decisions coming due to horrible cap situation and Two seasons no playoffs shit hits the fan. Bears can both Pace and Nagy and the start over commences.
An extra playoff spot and a 9-10 win team doesn't make it? That's a first round exit, sure--but 9-10 wins makes the playoffs.
West is too good and plays the east. I could def see 10 wins not being enough with tie breakers. That’s what happens when one of the division winners is sub .500
No way Pace does that i agree. Nagy is the alpha in that relationship. Giving up play calling would have to come from him and he has too much ego for that imo.
I see them winning 4 games there, no less. That would put them on 9-7. Going 4-6 over the last 10games would not be a good look. Their ability to spin that would depend entirely on whether they sneak into the playoffs(F the league and their extra playoff spot). All the idiots in ownership would care about is the team made the playoffs so George would spin the ass out if it. But with how strong the NFC West is im not sure 9-7 gets in. Even taking into account the NFC Least, there are going to be a lot of winning records in this conf. Bears will prob be 1 of 3 teams going for that last wildcard. 9 wins could easily miss out.
I don't think you get a big college name without them demanding full control, which--if you learned anything from Jim Harbaugh in San Francisco and Chip Kelly with Philly in the 2010s, is a bad idea. Swinney isn't leaving Clemson. Kiffin's too unpredictable and rubbed a ton of people the wrong way when he was in Oakland then Tennessee and USC in college. Lincoln Riley only wants to coach the cowboys. PJ Fleck makes a lot of money in college, and I don't know if he's someone you drop 10 mil on, but he's a local, likeable guy. Fuck James Franklin--he/Penn State have 2 lawsuits against him; one from a former doctor suing saying Franklin forced him to medically approve injured players to play and one from a former player alleging sexual assault/hazing. Nobody is touching him. I think Ryan Day looks good when Urban Meyer's players are still on the team. Let's see what his team looks like in 3-4 years. TBD. I agree. I think Reid may let him call a game or two that wont matter to the Chiefs at the end of the season. As horrible as this sounds--he meets the 'Rooney Rule.' He has been a big name for the couple of years, not just this year--and many people couldn't believe he hasn't been hired yet. The media especially likes to push him. Who knows, it may be racism he doesn't have a job, given most owners in this league. It may be that he's an idiot in interviews and turns off ownership/GMs from choosing him as the leader. It may be he's been offered and turned it down because he wants a specific job (lot of people like him with Trevor Lawrence for the Jets), which is less likely--because it would have been in the press somewhere he turns a job down.
I don't follow college ball much but the Jim Harbaugh/Bears chat from a while back sure died down didn't it.
He went to the University of Michigan for a lot of money and a lot of years but loses every single big game/rivalry game he's in. I don't think he's beaten Michigan State or Ohio State since becoming their HC in 2015, and I think he's only beat Notre Dame once or twice, which isn't exactly difficult to do because Notre Dame is an above average team in an independent division and get to make their own schedule packed full of cupcakes and 1-2 decent teams.
Just back to the 4th & 1 play, i came across this. 1- I totally disagree Patterson had an 88% chance of making that. Do these guys watch the Bears run the ball? 2- There's at least 1 blown assignment on this play. Coward def screwed up cos he literally does nothing. As the POA defender surely the plan was to double that LB, prob with Coward, possibly cleaning him up and allowing Wims to try to get off and take on a second block. Even if Coward did his job the CB getting off ARob's block might've killed this play anyway. Just an all round fail.
What about Matt Ruhle or Ryan Gosling, I mean Kliff Kingsbury? To my knowledge they don't have full control. It seems like that is a dying trend as even Pete Carroll has recently given up GM duties if I recall correctly.
Ruhle I'll give you. He didn't have to leave Baylor but wanted to. I think he lost a ton of upperclassmen and was due for a bad year or two while new recruits develop and grow. Texas Tech fired Kliff Kingsbury before Arizona interviewed him because he went 19-35, even with Patrick Mahomes as his QB for some of those years.
