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First Rex Ryan, now Sage Rosenthal. Has anyone ever seen analyst pile on so hard on a HC ? It speaks to how completely inept Nagy is that a usually measured Rosenthal felt the need to speak unfiltered on Nagy's shit playcalling.
Chicagotribune.com
Matt Nagy: Analysts blast Chicago Bears coach after playoff loss
Phil Rosenthal
4 minutes
Former NFL quarterback Sage Rosenfels devoted much of his final weekly appearance this season on WSCR-AM 670 on Tuesday to torching Nagy’s strategies.
A day earlier on ESPN, former NFL coach Rex Ryan, son of the late Super Bowl XX Bears defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan, blasted Nagy for mishandling quarterback Mitch Trubisky.
Rosenfels, who played for Iowa State and then five NFL teams, blamed Nagy for losing “a very winnable” wild-card game to the New Orleans Saints, 21-9, on Sunday. Rosenfels cited “coaching deficiencies, offensive coaching deficiencies” that failed to make things easier for Trubisky and his teammates.
“I don’t even think Mitch played all that bad,” Rosenfels said, suggesting Trubisky was handicapped by play calling and conception.
“It was one of the worst offensive coaching performances that I’ve seen the Bears take part in over the last couple years. It was really bad from a schematic standpoint. … I thought the players didn’t play very well, but I thought they were put into a terrible position, especially their quarterback, a terrible position to try to win that game and to try to be productive in that game.”
Rosenfels’ breakdown of the game centered on poor decisions by Nagy and his offensive staff, such as the use of empty backfields on first-down plays, enabling the Saints to effectively pressure Trubisky.
Pointing also to how Bears receivers struggled to shake Saints coverage, Rosenfels said: “When nobody’s open on a bootleg, that’s a coach’s fault.”
WSCR hosts Dan Bernstein and Leila Rahimi asked him why the midseason substitution of Nick Foles for Trubisky, a move later reversed, didn’t work amid a six-game losing streak.
“It’s a failure of just the deep science of football altogether, that you’re going to bring in a guy that’s not a great quarterback ... and say, ‘We’re going to rely on an offense that makes the quarterback have to play great to win,’ ” Rosenfels said.
“To me you need your quarterback to be part of the team, not the team. And I know they make a lot of money and I know they get the most attention and they’re the ones with the press conferences, but if you can make their job easier, you will have success.”
Ryan, on Mike Greenberg’s ESPN morning TV show, “Get Up!” offered Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald as a better fit for the Bears than Nagy.
“I’ve never been a big fan of this Nagy guy and, quite honestly, it’s because of the way he handled the Trubisky thing,” Ryan said Monday. “He put everything on him. I mean, he’s the guy they blame everything on.
“Well, why don’t you look at yourself first, man? I mean, dude, you scored three points in this game — I mean, I know it was nine, but nah, it was three points — and quite honestly, you’re an offensive guru. That’s why you came here.”
Ryan, who famously has a tattoo on an arm showing his wife wearing a jersey of Mark Sanchez, his one-time quarterback, seems to believe Nagy hasn’t properly shielded Trubisky from criticism.
“That’s your job as a head coach,” Ryan said. “You don’t make your quarterback take every bullet. You take the dang bullets, and that’s what I don’t respect about this guy.”
Ryan acknowledged Nagy’s Bears have made the playoffs in two of his three seasons as coach.
“Congratulations,” he said facetiously. “That’s because the NFC is a hell of a lot weaker than the AFC.”
Chicagotribune.com
Matt Nagy: Analysts blast Chicago Bears coach after playoff loss
Phil Rosenthal
4 minutes
Former NFL quarterback Sage Rosenfels devoted much of his final weekly appearance this season on WSCR-AM 670 on Tuesday to torching Nagy’s strategies.
A day earlier on ESPN, former NFL coach Rex Ryan, son of the late Super Bowl XX Bears defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan, blasted Nagy for mishandling quarterback Mitch Trubisky.
Rosenfels, who played for Iowa State and then five NFL teams, blamed Nagy for losing “a very winnable” wild-card game to the New Orleans Saints, 21-9, on Sunday. Rosenfels cited “coaching deficiencies, offensive coaching deficiencies” that failed to make things easier for Trubisky and his teammates.
“I don’t even think Mitch played all that bad,” Rosenfels said, suggesting Trubisky was handicapped by play calling and conception.
“It was one of the worst offensive coaching performances that I’ve seen the Bears take part in over the last couple years. It was really bad from a schematic standpoint. … I thought the players didn’t play very well, but I thought they were put into a terrible position, especially their quarterback, a terrible position to try to win that game and to try to be productive in that game.”
Rosenfels’ breakdown of the game centered on poor decisions by Nagy and his offensive staff, such as the use of empty backfields on first-down plays, enabling the Saints to effectively pressure Trubisky.
Pointing also to how Bears receivers struggled to shake Saints coverage, Rosenfels said: “When nobody’s open on a bootleg, that’s a coach’s fault.”
WSCR hosts Dan Bernstein and Leila Rahimi asked him why the midseason substitution of Nick Foles for Trubisky, a move later reversed, didn’t work amid a six-game losing streak.
“It’s a failure of just the deep science of football altogether, that you’re going to bring in a guy that’s not a great quarterback ... and say, ‘We’re going to rely on an offense that makes the quarterback have to play great to win,’ ” Rosenfels said.
“To me you need your quarterback to be part of the team, not the team. And I know they make a lot of money and I know they get the most attention and they’re the ones with the press conferences, but if you can make their job easier, you will have success.”
Ryan, on Mike Greenberg’s ESPN morning TV show, “Get Up!” offered Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald as a better fit for the Bears than Nagy.
“I’ve never been a big fan of this Nagy guy and, quite honestly, it’s because of the way he handled the Trubisky thing,” Ryan said Monday. “He put everything on him. I mean, he’s the guy they blame everything on.
“Well, why don’t you look at yourself first, man? I mean, dude, you scored three points in this game — I mean, I know it was nine, but nah, it was three points — and quite honestly, you’re an offensive guru. That’s why you came here.”
Ryan, who famously has a tattoo on an arm showing his wife wearing a jersey of Mark Sanchez, his one-time quarterback, seems to believe Nagy hasn’t properly shielded Trubisky from criticism.
“That’s your job as a head coach,” Ryan said. “You don’t make your quarterback take every bullet. You take the dang bullets, and that’s what I don’t respect about this guy.”
Ryan acknowledged Nagy’s Bears have made the playoffs in two of his three seasons as coach.
“Congratulations,” he said facetiously. “That’s because the NFC is a hell of a lot weaker than the AFC.”
