Nagy's lost aggressiveness, adding another layer to the mess
Nov 6, 2019 10:35:46 GMT -6
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Post by brasilbear on Nov 6, 2019 10:35:46 GMT -6
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 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.
I hold strongly that if you take an error avoiding vet QB (not Daniel, an ex-starter) and drop him in at starter, this is a 9-10 win team. Despite all my mummering about the DEF not playing well when most needed, its still a top 10 DEF in the league.
Nagy is coaching the way he is IMO because he has to. Teams are playing one safety back m2m coverages with 1 more man in the box than the Bears can block. Basicially daring them to pass and Mitch just can't. Call him broken, a bust or scared...doesn't matter.
When you can't throw to pull defenders out of the box, you can't run it either. Simply plowing Monty into a loaded box will only produce 3rd and longs and then Mitch has to pass. Basicially Nagy is doomed if he does and doomed if he doesn't.
Can't believe I have to watch 8 more games of this....and you know I will. I.Am.Going.To.Watch.Every.Single.Game.Left.