Matt Nagy still calling plays and other news from his presser By Lester A. Wiltfong Jr. - February 25th, 2020
The most unsurprising bit of news to come out of Matt Nagy’s press conference is that he still plans to call plays for the Chicago Bears in 2020. “I learned a lot last year. I feel rejuvenated and refreshed.” He said that he’s been going over his scheme from a year ago with his entire staff and they’ve honestly been accessing what worked and what didn’t.
Matt Nagy still calling plays and other news from his presser By Lester A. Wiltfong Jr. - February 25th, 2020
The most unsurprising bit of news to come out of Matt Nagy’s press conference is that he still plans to call plays for the Chicago Bears in 2020. “I learned a lot last year. I feel rejuvenated and refreshed.” He said that he’s been going over his scheme from a year ago with his entire staff and they’ve honestly been accessing what worked and what didn’t.
I'm amazed you can put a bad spin on what was said. He's clearly looking for self improvement. We should be happy about that.
Also explain how Nagy not calling plays and someone who just got hired magically turns around the lack of execution by the players.
- being a stubborn sob at times
- believing that running little Tarik up the middle on 1st & 10 is a good idea (this happened multiple times this season)
- refusing to run the damn ball (throwing the ball to Cohen instead of using Montgomery & Davis)
- incredibly unbalanced offense that sometimes looked even worse than the pass-pass-run-punt O under Fox
- his inability to adjust his scheme to the talent given to him
- way too many trick plays that always result in a loss of yards
Sorry man, but all those things have absolutely nothing to do w/ the lack of execution by the players. Is the new OC magically gonna fix everything? Of course not. But we sure have nothing to lose because it's not like we could do any worse on O.
Nagy has a LOT to prove this year, because so far he's definitely not that offensive genius that everybody in the bs media was talking about.
I'm amazed you can put a bad spin on what was said. He's clearly looking for self improvement. We should be happy about that.
Also explain how Nagy not calling plays and someone who just got hired magically turns around the lack of execution by the players.
- being a stubborn sob at times
- believing that running little Tarik up the middle on 1st & 10 is a good idea (this happened multiple times this season)
- refusing to run the damn ball (throwing the ball to Cohen instead of using Montgomery & Davis)
- incredibly unbalanced offense that sometimes looked even worse than the pass-pass-run-punt O under Fox
- his inability to adjust his scheme to the talent given to him
- way too many trick plays that always result in a loss of yards
Sorry man, but all those things have absolutely nothing to do w/ the lack of execution by the players. Is the new OC magically gonna fix everything? Of course not. But we sure have nothing to lose because it's not like we could do any worse on O.
Nagy has a LOT to prove this year, because so far he's definitely not that offensive genius that everybody in the bs media was talking about.
I have to agree with this ^^^^.
It's good that Nagy is undergoing some self-reflection and "learning". Hope that's the case.
No question there was poor "player execution" as well. Just like Trubisky's poor performance wasn't the ONLY thing wrong on offense last season, Nagy didn't exactly excel either. Week 1 if I remember correctly, Nagy called something like 32 straight pass plays and only ran the ball 7 times, despite Green Bay playing 6 DBs on defense a good chunk of the game. Even if players didn't execute properly, and they didn't (Mitch included), the HC owns some blame big time. For instance, we traded away Howard cuz he "didn't fit the scheme", brought in Davis and Monty, who supposedly did, and barely used them drive after drive after drive week after week.
I'm amazed you can put a bad spin on what was said. He's clearly looking for self improvement. We should be happy about that.
Also explain how Nagy not calling plays and someone who just got hired magically turns around the lack of execution by the players.
- being a stubborn sob at times
- believing that running little Tarik up the middle on 1st & 10 is a good idea (this happened multiple times this season)
- refusing to run the damn ball (throwing the ball to Cohen instead of using Montgomery & Davis)
- incredibly unbalanced offense that sometimes looked even worse than the pass-pass-run-punt O under Fox
- his inability to adjust his scheme to the talent given to him
- way too many trick plays that always result in a loss of yards
Sorry man, but all those things have absolutely nothing to do w/ the lack of execution by the players. Is the new OC magically gonna fix everything? Of course not. But we sure have nothing to lose because it's not like we could do any worse on O.
Nagy has a LOT to prove this year, because so far he's definitely not that offensive genius that everybody in the bs media was talking about.
It's pretty obvious when people don't execute their assignment and the play fails. When an OL misses a block, the QB misses an open receiver, the TE/WR can't get separation, these are all pretty good signs it's the fault of the player's execution. Again and again last year you could see this on any game's film.
"Bad playcalling" is easily one of the lamest fan criticisms. It's pseudo-intellectual garbage that people think makes them sound smart. It's Captain Hindsight at it's worst.
And you still haven't explained who should take over the role and why that would be so much better than Nagy making the calls. And yes the O could be much worse. Change for the sake of change is stupid and often counter productive.
- believing that running little Tarik up the middle on 1st & 10 is a good idea (this happened multiple times this season)
- refusing to run the damn ball (throwing the ball to Cohen instead of using Montgomery & Davis)
- incredibly unbalanced offense that sometimes looked even worse than the pass-pass-run-punt O under Fox
- his inability to adjust his scheme to the talent given to him
- way too many trick plays that always result in a loss of yards
Sorry man, but all those things have absolutely nothing to do w/ the lack of execution by the players. Is the new OC magically gonna fix everything? Of course not. But we sure have nothing to lose because it's not like we could do any worse on O.
Nagy has a LOT to prove this year, because so far he's definitely not that offensive genius that everybody in the bs media was talking about.
It's pretty obvious when people don't execute their assignment and the play fails. When an OL misses a block, the QB misses an open receiver, the TE/WR can't get separation, these are all pretty good signs it's the fault of the player's execution. Again and again last year you could see this on any game's film.
"Bad playcalling" is easily one of the lamest fan criticisms. It's pseudo-intellectual garbage that people think makes them sound smart. It's Captain Hindsight at it's worst.
And you still haven't explained who should take over the role and why that would be so much better than Nagy making the calls. And yes the O could be much worse. Change for the sake of change is stupid and often counter productive.
I agree with you that it's good that Nagy is trying to get better. I'm sure the players will try to get better this season too. It seemed like a combination of things that contributed to the ugly games we witnessed this past season. Certainly it looked like the offense wasn't prepared to play NFL-level football in some of these games. Yes, some plays were poorly executed for sure. I mean, anyone could see that... it was a clown show at times. I thought to myself while watching some of it go down, that Nagy didn't have his team ready to play on game day in some of these contests. It was that bad. Some of the play calls were obviously head scratchers for sure. It almost looked Marc Trestman-ish at times in some games, but honestly Marc wasn't as bad as some of Nagy's games (even Trestman's offense was 8th in total O in 2013). The 3-point games were especially hellish to watch. Just a total crap show. And what was up with not calling run plays in games? It was so weird to watch the play calling at times.
Was that due to poor execution? Sure some plays were. But some was coaching. Otherwise you could blame any team loss, or crappy season with a simple "well, the boys just didn't execute" excuse. Right? LOL, we could say the reason the Bears haven't won a Super Bowl since '85 is due to poor execution. Obviously it's more than just that.
If anyone thought he was giving up the playcalling I hope you didnt buy any bridges. The only talk about this was by twitters' and sports media hot take guys.
Similar to moving on from Tru and not just competition, and they are still going on with that.
- believing that running little Tarik up the middle on 1st & 10 is a good idea (this happened multiple times this season)
- refusing to run the damn ball (throwing the ball to Cohen instead of using Montgomery & Davis)
- incredibly unbalanced offense that sometimes looked even worse than the pass-pass-run-punt O under Fox
- his inability to adjust his scheme to the talent given to him
- way too many trick plays that always result in a loss of yards
Sorry man, but all those things have absolutely nothing to do w/ the lack of execution by the players. Is the new OC magically gonna fix everything? Of course not. But we sure have nothing to lose because it's not like we could do any worse on O.
Nagy has a LOT to prove this year, because so far he's definitely not that offensive genius that everybody in the bs media was talking about.
It's pretty obvious when people don't execute their assignment and the play fails. When an OL misses a block, the QB misses an open receiver, the TE/WR can't get separation, these are all pretty good signs it's the fault of the player's execution. Again and again last year you could see this on any game's film.
"Bad playcalling" is easily one of the lamest fan criticisms. It's pseudo-intellectual garbage that people think makes them sound smart. It's Captain Hindsight at it's worst.
And you still haven't explained who should take over the role and why that would be so much better than Nagy making the calls. And yes the O could be much worse. Change for the sake of change is stupid and often counter productive.
I guess I pseudo-saw when Nagy threw the ball 51 times in a one-score game week 1. They must have been pseudo-passes.