LINK Nagy has lost his aggressiveness, adding another layer to the Bears’ mess
Aggressive Matt Nagy, the play-caller with an edge who was always seeking the knockout punch last season en route to winning 12 games and coach of the year honors, is missing.
He has been replaced by a coach fearful of what his quarterback will do, uncertain what calamity might come next in a season cascading out of control. There’s not one root cause, or two or even three, and that’s what makes the current state of the franchise such a riddle.
After the most embarrassing of first halves, when the Bears totaled just 9 yards and went three-and-out on their first six possessions, the team somehow found a way to stick around in a game it had no business being in.
The most hyped Bears season in a long time is unraveling and the offense remains broken.
Do you think Nagy could lose the locker room if the team continues to decline?
LINK Bears fail completely — It is heartbreaking and crushing to this locker room More than 20 minutes had passed since the Bears lost 22-14 to the Eagles on Sunday afternoon, and Allen Robinson sat in full uniform on a stool at his locker, staring straight ahead.
Teammates and staff scurried to dress and pack their belongings. David Montgomery and Taylor Gabriel conducted interviews with the media nearby. And still Robinson sat, a blank look on a face smudged with eye black. Eventually he pulled off his jersey and rose to speak for a few minutes.
“Every position group on offense, guys have to make plays,” Robinson said. “That’s what it comes down to. We’re not making enough plays right now.”
Then he sat back down and stared some more.
This one — and its abysmal first half — didn’t have a simple explanation, such as Mitch Trubisky’s turnovers or Eddy Pineiro’s missed kick or Matt Nagy’s late-game decisions or abandoning the running game. It was a full-team failure that left Bears players grasping at how Super Bowl hopes have devolved into a 3-5 record at their season’s midpoint.
“It just sucks to lose like that,” Gabriel said. “Two weeks of having a chance to win and coming up with losses is hard. It is heartbreaking and crushing to this locker room because we grind and work so hard during the week with each other.
Do you think Nagy could lose the locker room if the team continues to decline?
LINK Bears fail completely — It is heartbreaking and crushing to this locker room More than 20 minutes had passed since the Bears lost 22-14 to the Eagles on Sunday afternoon, and Allen Robinson sat in full uniform on a stool at his locker, staring straight ahead.
Teammates and staff scurried to dress and pack their belongings. David Montgomery and Taylor Gabriel conducted interviews with the media nearby. And still Robinson sat, a blank look on a face smudged with eye black. Eventually he pulled off his jersey and rose to speak for a few minutes.
“Every position group on offense, guys have to make plays,” Robinson said. “That’s what it comes down to. We’re not making enough plays right now.”
Then he sat back down and stared some more.
This one — and its abysmal first half — didn’t have a simple explanation, such as Mitch Trubisky’s turnovers or Eddy Pineiro’s missed kick or Matt Nagy’s late-game decisions or abandoning the running game. It was a full-team failure that left Bears players grasping at how Super Bowl hopes have devolved into a 3-5 record at their season’s midpoint.
“It just sucks to lose like that,” Gabriel said. “Two weeks of having a chance to win and coming up with losses is hard. It is heartbreaking and crushing to this locker room because we grind and work so hard during the week with each other.
He's going to lose the locker room if he keeps Trubisky in there when he clearly needs to be bench. Outside of that last drive from the defense. When the offense showed some life the D seem to get motivated and created many 3 and outs...
Sadly Monty had to kill their last drive with an easy drop pass that would of been a first down and more...
The only way he loses the locker room is if he A. doesn't take accountability and blames the players solely for whats happening, and B. makes questionable player decisions based on covering his ass and not what the players deem to be in the best interest of winning.
He won 12 games last year...that builds some equity. Chase Daniel is not as good of a QB as Mitch is, the team knows this. If Nagy benches Trubs to go with Daniel...he'll lose the locker room. People seem to forget what Daniel has been in his time here. This idea Nagy should bench Trubs for him is beyond laughable to me.
Mitch needs to stick these little lights all over himself and then get filmed in the dark. They need to completely retrain his mechanics. Nagy should get this going. But I don't think he is going to lose the locker room. He's not Trestman in the back of the room.
The only way he loses the locker room is if he A. doesn't take accountability and blames the players solely for whats happening, and B. makes questionable player decisions based on covering his ass and not what the players deem to be in the best interest of winning.
He won 12 games last year...that builds some equity. Chase Daniel is not as good of a QB as Mitch is, the team knows this. If Nagy benches Trubs to go with Daniel...he'll lose the locker room. People seem to forget what Daniel has been in his time here. This idea Nagy should bench Trubs for him is beyond laughable to me.
No one here thinks Daniel is a good QB. He isn't. He's a career 2nd/3rd stringer for a reason.
No one here thinks Daniel is as athletically gifted as Trubisky. Mitch is clearly far more talented physically.
Having said that, its pretty hard to claim that playing Trubisky is in "the best interest of winning" right now. He's playing very poorly to put it mildly. In fact, he's been downright awful the entire season and particularly since the bye (zero TDs last 3 games and only 3 TDs all season, no I'm not counting meaningless garbage time stuff vs New Orleans).
He's the 39th ranked QB in the league right now which means he's worse than every other teams starter (including the starters who weren't starters on Labor Day) AND worse than at least 6 backups. He also looks broken and lost out there in terms of confidence. He seems to not know where to go on several dropbacks. Last game's 1st half was literally one of the worst 1st halves offensively in the history of the NFL and that's not an exaggeration. Yes, I know the OL was struggling. He's not the only QB to ever have to take snaps behind a struggling OL.
Don't get me wrong, as long as the locker room doesn't melt down, I don't want to see Mitch get benched this season. Let him play out the string so that there's absolutely no doubt about what the Bears have and what they need to do about it this offseason. I'm pretty sure I know how that's gonna end up, we shall see.
But let's not kid ourselves into believing that Mitch is still playing for any other reasons than draft status and an upcoming contract/roster decision. Any other circumstances... and he would have been benched by now.
The only way he loses the locker room is if he A. doesn't take accountability and blames the players solely for whats happening, and B. makes questionable player decisions based on covering his ass and not what the players deem to be in the best interest of winning.
He won 12 games last year...that builds some equity. Chase Daniel is not as good of a QB as Mitch is, the team knows this. If Nagy benches Trubs to go with Daniel...he'll lose the locker room. People seem to forget what Daniel has been in his time here. This idea Nagy should bench Trubs for him is beyond laughable to me.
No one here thinks Daniel is a good QB. He isn't. He's a career 2nd/3rd stringer for a reason.
No one here thinks Daniel is as athletically gifted as Trubisky. Mitch is clearly far more talented physically.
Having said that, its pretty hard to claim that playing Trubisky is in "the best interest of winning" right now. He's playing very poorly to put it mildly. In fact, he's been downright awful the entire season and particularly since the bye (zero TDs last 3 games and only 3 TDs all season, no I'm not counting meaningless garbage time stuff vs New Orleans).
He's the 39th ranked QB in the league right now which means he's worse than every other teams starter (including the starters who weren't starters on Labor Day) AND worse than at least 6 backups. He also looks broken and lost out there in terms of confidence. He seems to not know where to go on several dropbacks. Last game's 1st half was literally one of the worst 1st halves offensively in the history of the NFL and that's not an exaggeration. Yes, I know the OL was struggling. He's not the only QB to ever have to take snaps behind a struggling OL.
Don't get me wrong, as long as the locker room doesn't melt down, I don't want to see Mitch get benched this season. Let him play out the string so that there's absolutely no doubt about what the Bears have and what they need to do about it this offseason. I'm pretty sure I know how that's gonna end up, we shall see.
But let's not kid ourselves into believing that Mitch is still playing for any other reasons than draft status and an upcoming contract/roster decision. Any other circumstances... and he would have been benched by now.
+1
Maybe the right thing is to let Mitch embarrass himself no matter how bad his play gets. But sometimes I have felt that the "humane" thing to do is to pull a badly failing QB out of a game for his own good. I felt that way with Grossman at times. Yes, it's really really bad to pull a QB in those situations, but I'm not sure you're helping the young kid to let him fall apart like that. Nobody is saying Chase Daniels is the answer. WE HAVE NO ANSWER ON THE ROSTER NOW FOR THE QB POSITION. Could Mitch somehow end up an okay QB? Maybe. Maybe not.