Longtime Bears insider raises interesting concern about Nagy

I'm still calling BS on "flexibility". I refer people to the thread w/the person that actually broke down film of Howard vs Cohen. There is only so much you can do when your entire system revolves around misdirection and you have a piece that is not capable of anything other then outside zone runs, and incapable of learning inside zone run RPO.

Offense was more effiecent when Howard wasn't on the field in yards per attempt by approx 2ypa. Some could say well ya they were passing more on plays that didn't have Howard; well why was that? It's because Howard wasn't a threat out of the backfield no team was worried about him. How creative can you be when the guy you are giving the ball to is running as slow as Howard was last year; and missing wide open holes b/c he doesn't understand inside zone RPO(again refer back to the actual video breakdown). Where they supposed to have the OL and WR's switch what they do on 20 plays a game to help Howard? Hey you other 9 guys stop doing what's working and do this now, Howard needs to look good....nonono ignore that you were crushing it out there and scoring, need to let Howard get a few yards and he hasn't bothered to learn the O like the rest of you or is just incapable of handling it, so get out there and lets score less and be on the field less, ya know like the last 2 years.

They were also scored more and won more then when we had John Fox using Howard to his full potential. As much as I love Pompie, and no doubt he is an insider w/a lot of inside information, he only stated his opinion and didn't use his sources for it, and his opinion is about as useful as any of ours. We have multiple people that have broken down film of howard, Kollman, the guy on twitter, and nother guy mid season, all the video's are on this site, telling everyone that Howard is limited, guys that actually broke down film, ignore all that, listen to Dan he's covered the team for 30 years.

Dan Pompie apparently wanted the Bears to continue the same blocking/run scheme of the old regime which required 2 WR's on most downs to be effective; how do you run a modern NFL passing game w/that? He cannot have it both ways, you cannot want a modern NFL passing offense w/misdirection AND have a RB that is never a threat to run or pass, AND needs 20-25 carries a game to get lathered up and start to be effective. Here's the end all problem w/all this. EVERY other player seemed to thrive in this new system; including his qb(once he started to understand it the O and get some experience w/his WR's), the WR's, the OL, the other RB's. So what Dan is saying is that Nagy's should have perverted his system in which the team and other players excelled all for Howard, at the expense of winning and scoring, b/c that's what good coaches do? Good coaches adjust to limited players that slow down everything they are trying to do? I'm calling BS. Good coaches find ways players that do what they need them to do, or only ask them to do what they can if it doesn't slow the entire ship up.

1. Everything from Sports Mockery needs to be taken with a shotgun shell of salt. To the face.
2. It's very unlike Dan Pompei to be this type of critic, so I feel like there's something missing, some other point he failed to convey. He's never struck me as the type to romanticize his concepts what Bear football "should" be and then publish them.
3. The thrust of his article on The Athletic (for me) was hoping the Bears aren't headed down a road traveled before; a HCOY gaining waaaay too much control, who sheds players AND personnel because they "don't fit" him (and not necessarily his scheme). Pompei's examples of Thomas Jones, Greg Olsen and Ron Rivera cannot be ignored. THEY HAPPENED.  Angelo has voiced regret for all of these decisions, but never threw Lovie under the bus.
4. It's waaay too early to start judging Matt Nagy. JH was Ryan Pace's shiny trophy; a 5th round Pro Bowler. It's my understanding Pace still controls player personnel decisions, so if he was willing to let Howard go, then he had to be convinced of it, he had to buy into it. He had to believe Nagy knows the road forward and this was the best decision. Nagy simply not wanting Howard would not have been enough for Pace to let him go.