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Nagy blasts Bears for SNF debacle: 'Have some personal pride'

Alex Chippin

Bears head coach Matt Nagy ripped his entire team Monday following Chicago's blowout loss to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday Night Football.

"Every freaking coach on the staff, every player better wake up and start understanding where we're at," he told reporters, via Chris Emma of 670 The Score. "Have some personal pride. Have a freaking sense of urgency. Know where we're at. … Yesterday was flat-out embarrassing and our guys know it."

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/nfl/nagy-blasts-bears-for-snf-debacle-have-some-personal-pride/ar-BB1buMbv?pfr=1

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yea, the wheels are falling off the cart.

Sounding more and more like the beginning of the end.

The HC is responsible for instilling that pride and motivating the team. He clearly is not a good motivator of men. He rode Fangio's coattails to 12-4 in 2018 and is now 13-14 without him. Do you know the Bears have only won 2 games against teams with winning records since the start of 2019 (TB this year and MIN last year when they rested all their starters in Week 17). Also, 11 of the 13 wins have been by 7 pts or less.

1 hour ago, adam said:

Do you know the Bears have only won 2 games against teams with winning records since the start of 2019 (TB this year and MIN last year when they rested all their starters in Week 17). Also, 11 of the 13 wins have been by 7 pts or less.

Damn!

4 hours ago, adam said:

Do you know the Bears have only won 2 games against teams with winning records since the start of 2019 (TB this year and MIN last year when they rested all their starters in Week 17). Also, 11 of the 13 wins have been by 7 pts or less.

Holy hell. That stat encapsulates what we've all been feeling, but couldn't quite express with the strings of wins here and there.

Yeah, it shows that they have only been winning against the bad teams and losing against the good teams. That is how you end up at 13-14. On the flip side, they have played the toughest schedule per DVOA this year (2.1% ahead of #2 CAR, which is a lot) and had the 6th toughest in 2019. In 2018, at 12-4, they played against the 2nd easiest DVOA schedule. So this team is very schedule dependent and that has played out this year to a T. So I expect a few more wins against the likes of HOU, JAX, and DET with losses from MIN and GB to end at 7-9.

2 hours ago, adam said:

Yeah, it shows that they have only been winning against the bad teams and losing against the good teams. That is how you end up at 13-14. On the flip side, they have played the toughest schedule per DVOA this year (2.1% ahead of #2 CAR, which is a lot) and had the 6th toughest in 2019. In 2018, at 12-4, they played against the 2nd easiest DVOA schedule. So this team is very schedule dependent and that has played out this year to a T. So I expect a few more wins against the likes of HOU, JAX, and DET with losses from MIN and GB to end at 7-9.

Kind of what you would expect from a team with an above average offense and below average defense.  Until they have a QB - hard to put up back to back winning seasons because you aren't going to go and just win the games, you are going to have to grind the games.  This team could have been a lot better if everything was designed around its strengths. Those that say this is a terrible team are wrong - that said, I don't know a way to turn it into a great team quickly, unless the franchise is going to luck into a franchise QB.  

Pretty tone def to call out the D after his Offense has struggled to do nothing all year.  Fire the whole lot of them.  Pace, Naggy, Sweaty Teddy, etc.  

16 hours ago, DABEARSDABOMB said:

Those that say this is a terrible team are wrong - that said, I don't know a way to turn it into a great team quickly, unless the franchise is going to luck into a franchise QB.  

I would agree talent wise it's not a terrible team.  They are poorly coached and poorly utilized through play calling/game planning (if we can even call it game planning).  Like you said this team could be better or more successful if everything was designed around their strengths.  Good coaches/coordinators can recognize what their players strengths are and what their players weaknesses are.  Mitch for example, is a mobile QB.  In 2018 plays were designed around his mobility and it worked because it played to his strengths and away from his weaknesses. Defenses had to account for his ability to make plays with his legs and improvise on the run.  Since the injury that season they all but took that away from him and tried to make him a pocket passer which he is not.  And surprise surprise he's struggled.  Look at our run game.  There is absolutely no creativity there at all.  We have one run play and it's run up the gut into defenders who are in the backs face because of the turnstiles we have on our line.  Calling run plays that have 0 chance of success doesn't qualify as trying to run the ball.  Use the perimeter more.  At times I feel like Monty needs to also do better at running to daylight rather than just try to run where the play is designed to go.  He has the speed to take the runs outside.  His odds would have to be better than just running into the defenders in his face.  And no one's fooled when Patterson comes in.  They know it's a run play and he'll get the ball.  No need to defend anything else.  We literally make it easy on opposing defenses to stop us.  They're playing chess while Naggy's playing checkers.  We could go on and on listing examples of poor coaching/play calling.   You don't force players to fit your scheme, you fit your schema to your players.  Football is a game about adaptation, stubbornness will get you no where which is exactly where this team is heading.