Just to put it out there, this is what I personally think of Nagy.
I think he is a good motivator, I think his schemes are on point actually, but I think on Game Day, he has some lacking qualities and I also think he can be stubborn to a fault.
For instance, ever since he hit the scene in 2018, I noticed that our WRs were constantly getting open. Like seriously, all the damn time. For all the bullshit about the scheme sucking, how can a scheme suck that gets guys open all the time?
However, during that same stretch, the O-Line looked bad, the QB even when he had time wasn't seeing the open receivers a lot of the time, and I mean a LOT of the time, and there were too many times where a pointless timeout was called.
And yes, there were times where Nagy, who had it work in 2018, got too "cute" and it bit him in the ass.
However, I really didn't understand the depth of all the issues until late last year.
Things I blame on Nagy:
- Clock Management - Sage Rosenfels pointed out the reasoning was because in terms of packages, Nagy deploys about 32. That's 32 different personnel groupings. So managing who should and shouldn't be on the field is damn hard. NFL average is somewhere between 12-18 personnel groupings on offense. That's frankly just overkill, and a QB's big brain overthinking a problem
Things I am on the fence about with Nagy:
- Stubborness - This I can actually understand to a point. It would be hard to give up on a scheme that is frequently getting your receivers open. He's been dying to have someone able to see the open guys and deliver them the ball, and he just hasn't had that yet in any QB. And the dumbed down schemes for Mitch only worked against poor opposing talent. You would never contend like that, and making that argument is a backdoor argument that Mitch didn't really suck, which he did.
Things I don't blame on Nagy:
- Offensive line play - it improved when Mustipher was in, and I figured out why. Olin Kreutz the week before Sam got to play said he noticed it seemed like the center was consistently making the wrong line calls, which resulted in the Offensive Line blocking the wrong people. Therefore, while fans like me bitch that the line sucks, the line wasn't even lining up and attacking the correct guy they were assigned to. Mustipher came in and cleaned that up, because he was the only one the Bears had who was making the RIGHT line calls. Cody kept fucking it up. Daniels was too quiet when he had his shot and no one could hear him making the calls. And it is clear the coaches and GM thought the line was way too soft, because they brought in 2 of the nastiest motherfuckers in the draft on O line to come play for them, and then all the UDFA linemen they signed also all had noted mean streaks. And then they cut Leno. That was mostly cap, but it also sends a message that puts all gentle giants on notice - and I can't be mad at the coaches for sending that message.
- Quarterback sucking - can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit folks. And that is what the Bears had with Foles and Mitch. Now he finally has a good prospect to work with, and I am not going to fault the potter for getting bad clay. On his draft board back in 2017, Nagy had Mahommes as a generational talent, Watson as an all pro, and Mitch as "an athlete playing quarterback".
Of course, going forward its all on Nagy now. No more excuses. But in retrospect, I don't hate him like some.....
