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I agree. Also, what is Nagy's signature dominant win as a head coach after 2018? Most coaches have games they can hang their hat on. In 2019, the Bears beat the Vikings twice (16-6 and 21-19) when the Vikings finished 10-6. In 2020, the Bears beat the 11-5 Bucs with Foles at QB 20-19. That's it, those are the only wins vs winning teams in 2019 and 2020. Nagy and the Bears have been completely schedule and turnover-dependent since 2018. They only win when they win the turnover battle and/or play a bad team. The offense is built to "not lose" instead of trying to win.

I would fire Nagy and Furrey. The WR Corps is one of the worst in the league and had recent discipline problems with Miller and Wims.

It was a odd game. The players were lethargic for the most part. No one seemed to care that they were getting blown out. Why is Fields just sitting on the bench with a dead stare? Get a tablet and coach over to him and go over what went wrong and look at the next play. Players normally converse on the sideline to make adjustments, I didn't see any fire. It was like they didn't want to be there. Zero sacks and only a few splash plays on defense. The offense was Herbert on his own. Embarrassing performance, worse teams at least competed, the Bears gave up. This team is underachieving and the coaches are terrible. Mike Furrey should be fired. The WR room is a mess.

The play calls were horrendous. Zero designed runs, not enough from the gun. Zero help with Simmons to start the game. It feels like Fields is in the wrong system, and no one is getting open. Every catch was contested. Guys tipping balls in the air for easy picks. ARob falling down and on a play where he was told he had a free play. On the fumbles, he had less than 2 seconds on one, and 2.16 on the other. There is nothing any QB is going to be able to do. He literally got back to his drop and was hit. They needed designed keepers and have him take the gap inside the tackle. Fields should be getting better, but not a single offensive player outside of Herbert is stepping up. Zero YAC from receivers. I really hope with Nagy out that Lazor has more flexibility to make a game plan to beat SF. Nagy just needs to stay out until after the bye.

The 7th seed is not normally a playoff team, see Bears 2020, but for how bad that game was, the Bears are still in it. If anyone was watching the other games, SF lost and looked like crap with Jimmy G back starting. They are now 2-4 coming to Chicago. Carolina got destroyed by the Giants and lost a game I had them winning. If the Bears beat SF next week, I would scratch both SF and CAR off the list. That leaves NO, MIN, CHI, and ATL vying for 2 spots. Those are much better odds. MIN plays DAL, NO plays SEA tonight and TB next week and ATL plays CAR. After next week the Bears and Falcons might be WC2/WC3 going into Week 9 where the Bears get the Steelers, Falcons play the Saints (one team will get a loss), and the Vikings play the Ravens. So there is a chance the Bears go into the bye at 5-4 with one of the Wild Card spots and may even have WC2 depending on what the Saints do. The top 2 teams in the AFC are the Bengals and Raiders, both teams the Bears have beat. The Ravens got killed by the Bengals so that game now seems a little easier than it originally was. The Bears have held Rodgers, Brady, Burrows, and Carr all to under 220 passing yards a game. Regardless of the outcome of those games (2-2), that is impressive. Obviously things have to change. Fields needs better protection and better hot routes. WRs have to be better.

If they won't fire Nagy in season, then he needs to fire Mike Furrey. The WR group might be the 2nd or 3rd worst unit on the team, and that is saying ALOT. ARob just had 2 receptions for 16 yards. Daniel Jones, the QB for NYG had a reception for 16 yards. ARob is out there trotting around, reminds me of Jackson. Mooney is dropping passes, and Goodwin and Byrd are non-existent. Outside of OL and Safety, this is the most underachieving group.

Nagy needs to be fired. There is nothing left to do. If you think he hasn't lost this team, I don't know what game you were watching. There was zero anything. The defense made a few nice stops, but those were from one or two guys every time (Smith and DHC). The majority of the team is done. ARob is jogging routes, like all of them. He is never open. Mooney had two balls hit his hands and one went for an INT. You might as well call up Adams. The O-Line needs help. Why in the God's name would you start Simmons and not have someone helping on his side against JPP? This was against TB's 2nd and 3rd string CBs and our WR's could not get open. Embarrasing. The defense gets sort of a pass, but even with short fields, you can't give up 5 TDs in a half. Nichols punching a dude? Jackson a no-show again. I saw more out of DHC back there than Jackson, who now has went 23 games without an INT, 26 games without a sack, 2 TFL in last 26 games, and 0 PDs this season. DHC had a PD and I thought Christian did too.

Now Johnson is taking plays off, wth. He literally stood there while his WR caught the ball and ran right by him.

ARob and Jackson can go. They need to clean house sooner than later. They need to move people before the trading deadline.

Half the players are just going thru the motions. Nagy has clearly lost this team.

Roquan Smith is a beast. Snuffed out the screen for a TFL and quick 3 and out.

I'm sick of the apologists saying he is doing "other" things well. I want to see those.

This game feels off, like the players don't want to be there. Terrible punt coverage leads to easy TD. Both the offense and defense have done nothing.

I'm just watching Eddie Jackson on every defensive snap. He comes up to the LOS then turns his back on Fournette who runs right behind him for a huge gain. Then on TD run, Fournette runs right at Jackson who is there to touch him a yard into the end zone. Ugh.

Welp that was fun.

Mongo, it is truly never ending. How many games were tilted in GB's favor over the years?

Oh yeah, McDaniels is really good as a QB Coach or even an OC, but that's his cap, and that's ok. If Nagy stays, we really need a real OC and not one just by name in Lazor.

I honestly don't know as 9-8 with a first-round playoff loss would be the definition of mediocrity from 2019-2021. A losing record and two playoff losses. At some point you need more. Also, we have to start evaluating whether the team is getting beat because they are better coached/scheme (On Nagy) or if the other team has better players (on Pace), or both.

Oh I know, just interesting timing I guess.

Hicks has a groin issue. I would just keep him out until after the bye. He keeps reaggravating it.

All of a sudden, coming out on Twitter to expose the Packers, wow, where was this last week when we needed it.

Damn, Hicks is downgraded to out. However, Williams was activated off the C19 list, so he can play.

So I totally forgot about the 3rd WC slot (the same one the Bears slipped into last year). The difference this year is the 17th game. The extra game for the Bears was LVR, for the Vikings, it's the LAC. That extra game may end up being the difference in making the playoffs or not this year. At this point, if the Bears can survive to the bye, with TB, SF at home, and PIT (MNF) in the next 3, they have a much more favorable schedule down the stretch. They have to win one, but two puts their odds of making the playoffs very high. If you consider TB a loss (3-4), then SF a win (at home) - SF plays SNF against IND at home. With a loss against the Colts, they could come into Chicago at 2-4 and 4 straight losses. Then in Week 8, the Bears go to Pittsburgh with an extra day to prepare. Pittsburgh is in Cleveland in Week 7. So Pittsburgh doesn't gain additional time between games. A win to go 5-4 into the bye would be huge. Even a loss is not the end of the world. The Wild Card is going to come down to the following teams vying for the 2nd and 3rd slot. If you lock LAR or ARZ into WC1 (whoever loses the division), then you have 6 teams for 2 spots. 3 from the NFC South, which normally works itself out once they play each other. WC2 - NO 3-2, still has 2x games against TB, and plays TEN, BUF, DAL, all probable losses. So if they win every other game, they are 10-7. Hard not to see them slip up once in those other 7 games to finish 9-8. That is the best-case scenario. Still 2x vs ATL and one vs CAR. WC2 probably finishes 9-8. Week 17 vs CAR. Week 18 @ ATL. WC3 - MIN 3-3, plays DAL, BAL, LAC, GB in their next 4 games (talk about brutal). They can easily lose all 4 and be 3-7 going to SF. Just say they win 1 (unlikely), that's 4-6, then they play the Bears twice, LAR and GB again. Let's say they split with the Bears and lose to both the Rams and Packers, that is 5-9 (at best), and they win their other 3 against PIT, DET, and SF, that is a tough 8-9. They have to split with the Bears AND beat one of DAL, BAL, LAC, GB, AND beat PIT to get to 8 wins. The only way they get to 9, by sweeping the Bears and still beating someone like DAL and PIT. Possible, but unlikely. I say they finish between 7-10 or 8-9. ------------------ 4 - CHI 3-3, the Bears lose to TB and PIT, beat SF, and are now 4-5 into the bye; then 4 wins against DET, MIN, SEA, and NYG and losses against BAL, ARZ, GB, and MIN makes them 8-9. They will need to beat PIT or sweep against MIN to slip into WC3 at 9-8. Beating PIT AND sweeping MIN would put them at 10-7, which seems like the ultimate ceiling. There is an extremely high probability that Week 18 in Minnesota is a playoff play-in game, win and you're in. They both could come into Week 18 both at 8-8. I just can't see MIN beating DAL, PIT and sweeping the Bears (4-0), then the Bears obviously losing 2 to MIN and losing to PIT (0-3). That's basically what would need to happen for MIN to beat CHI into the playoffs. I think the Bears finish 9-8 and none of that matters. 5 - CAR 3-3, hasn't played TB yet, 0-2, still have to play BUF and ARZ. At least 4 losses there. Depending on who wins CAR vs NO may decide which one of those teams gets into the playoffs. Playing out their schedule, they go either 8-9 or 9-8 as well. Their season may come down to beating ATL once or twice. Week 17 @ NO, Week 18 @ TB. 6 - SF 2-3, they still have ARZ, LAR x2, CIN, TEN, CHI and MIN. I have them finishing no better than 7-10 and at best 8-9. I have them losing to the Bears, beating IND this week. That is 3-4, then ARZ, LAR to 3-6. Then JAX, MIN, SEA (2-1) to 5-7. Then CIN, ATL, TEN, HOU (2-2) to 7-9. Week 18 @ LAR. They would have to beat MIN, SEA, and CIN or CHI to get to 9 wins. Odds are they split and go 8-9. 7 - ATL 2-3, they truly are the wild card team in all of this. They have 2x against both NO and CAR, and one against SF. They probably have 3 losses against TB, DAL, and BUF, but depending on how they are viewed otherwise, if they beat MIA, JAX, and DET, and go 2-3 in their remaining 5 games, they go 7-10. Those 2 wins would be against one of NO, CAR, or SF, which would change the outcomes of those teams. Week 18 vs NO. BLUF: 9-8 should make the playoffs, Week 18 may decide it. Go Bears!

Since the Cleveland debacle, Fields has had a QBR of 76.8 (DET), 29.0 (vs LVR), and 40.5 (vs GB). That also counts the ridiculous INT on the no delay game call. Compared to the other rookies, Jones has been the most consistent with the highest floor (which was somewhat expected). Lawrence had the best game of his career in Week 4 QBR-wise, but in that game, he was just 17-24 for 204 yards, 0 TD, 0 INT and had a rushing TD. Week 4-6: Lawrence 82.5, 28.8, 52.7, one great game, one bad game, one average game. Wilson 40.8, 17.3, Bye, one average game, one terrible game Jones 46.9, 65.4, 46.4, two average games, one good game I feel like Jones is playing exactly how he was projected.

Add LB Lavonte David to that list of players out. No Richard Sherman either. So the Bears are going to have opportunities in the passing game. Would love for a breakout game from Fields here.