Expectation for Pace/Nagy's 2021 team - to keep 'em in 2022?

I'm guessing that it may not be a wins/losses benchmark.  I'm thinking it may boil down to whether or not the team is showing real progress as compared with the last two seasons.  What does that look like? 

1.  Need to see the young (and new) receivers and TEs show evidence of being solid acquisitions by Pace - and Nagy shows he can use them well.  Can you look at their 2021 performance and see real talent there that will help this offense in 2022 with Nagy the coach? 

2.  Does Fields use these skill players to light it up on offense, or will it be more of the clown show offense performances this year, like the last two years... but just a better QB surrounded by poor talent?

Will the D continue to look like the D we saw against the Rams, or will we see (at least) a good-but-not great defense that can do enough on gamedays for the team to win?  Did Pace provide at least a baseline of D talent for this year's roster to perform at that level, or is the D getting killed on gameday?  If the bottom drops out this year on D then Pace will be seen as the guy responsible, not the coach. 

If Nagy would lose the locker room (not saying it will happen but if) then obviously he's not here in 2022.  Will that result in Pace being let go too?  I don't know.  I think the team will have to win more games than the last two 8-win seasons for Pace/Nagy to survive and get 2022 here.  How many more wins?  I don't know.  But the team needs to show it can beat teams better than the bad ones... not just beating up on the Lions and Lions-level teams.  Pace's players can't perform so poorly this year that it clearly looks like Nagy has been given poor talent - with the expectation of making chicken salad out of chicken poop. 

  ---Another season that doesn't give some hope for a good 2022 and beyond, gets both guys fired I think.  The heat will be too intense on the McCaskey's to NOT pull the plug. 

  ---If, on the other hand, the team does look like an ascending team that is getting it together with Pace's players and Nagy's coaching - then both get another year here.