Brad Biggs giving credit to Nagy (some good points for sure)
Oct 11, 2021 11:50:17 GMT -6
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Post by JABF on Oct 11, 2021 11:50:17 GMT -6
Biggs makes some good points about Nagy here. Give blame when it is deserved, but give credit where credit is due. This is behind a paywall so I can only post the link and a brief snippet here. It is a great read though.
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Nagy has taken his share of hits already this season, some of them deserved. There’s no need to review the effort in Cleveland, and he has been awkward at times in discussing the quarterbacks and who is calling plays.
But when a coach gets a team to respond like the Bears have, you have to step back and acknowledge that the Bears came here and played their butts off. They didn’t beat the Raiders with a bunch of big plays or fluky takeaways or long returns. They beat the Raiders down, and that requires the entire roster...
... There’s no telling what the Bears will do from here, but to be 3-2 having played four pretty good teams — I think the Cincinnati Bengals are trending up and I know the Los Angeles Rams and aforementioned Cleveland Browns are good — is a solid start. The schedule will remain a meat grinder for the Bears, but they earned the right to enjoy a long flight home before a day off and what should be some positive film review Tuesday.
“Guys lock in,” free safety Eddie Jackson said. “We block out all the noise and we rally around each other and continue to fight.”
There’s a level of belief in the locker room. The emergence of Fields as a talent who should only improve brings a new level of energy. Nagy hasn’t nailed every decision, but what coach does? He has hit enough lately to have this group feeling remarkably better than it did two weeks ago, when it looked like nothing could go right.
Nagy has taken his share of hits already this season, some of them deserved. There’s no need to review the effort in Cleveland, and he has been awkward at times in discussing the quarterbacks and who is calling plays.
But when a coach gets a team to respond like the Bears have, you have to step back and acknowledge that the Bears came here and played their butts off. They didn’t beat the Raiders with a bunch of big plays or fluky takeaways or long returns. They beat the Raiders down, and that requires the entire roster...
... There’s no telling what the Bears will do from here, but to be 3-2 having played four pretty good teams — I think the Cincinnati Bengals are trending up and I know the Los Angeles Rams and aforementioned Cleveland Browns are good — is a solid start. The schedule will remain a meat grinder for the Bears, but they earned the right to enjoy a long flight home before a day off and what should be some positive film review Tuesday.
“Guys lock in,” free safety Eddie Jackson said. “We block out all the noise and we rally around each other and continue to fight.”
There’s a level of belief in the locker room. The emergence of Fields as a talent who should only improve brings a new level of energy. Nagy hasn’t nailed every decision, but what coach does? He has hit enough lately to have this group feeling remarkably better than it did two weeks ago, when it looked like nothing could go right.
