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With his overuse of y’all...my guess is he moved to Tupelo
I’ve resigned to the fact that he’s pretty clueless about football
So he's almost neighbors with Silence.
Lol, 24 points is not destroying anyone on offense.
I said this once before, but I think the biggest coaching error was how Nagy had the Bears evidently sky-high to play a meaningless game against Minnesota, then the obligatory letdown occurred the following week against Philly, i.e. the game that actually counted.
The Bears performance against Minnesota was incredible. The Vikings had finally gotten their defensive players back from injury and were playing at home for their playoff lives. They had allowed 17ppg in their last 7 games. The Bears dominated them on both sides of the line. The offense did whatever it wanted to do. No turnovers or sacks, 8-14 on 3rd down, almost 38 minutes of TOP. I thought it was the Bears' most impressive offensive performance of the year considering the circumstances.
I said this once before, but I think the biggest coaching error was how Nagy had the Bears evidently sky-high to play a meaningless game against Minnesota, then the obligatory letdown occurred the following week against Philly, i.e. the game that actually counted.
The Bears performance against Minnesota was incredible. The Vikings had finally gotten their defensive players back from injury and were playing at home for their playoff lives. They had allowed 17ppg in their last 7 games. The Bears dominated them on both sides of the line. The offense did whatever it wanted to do. No turnovers or sacks, 8-14 on 3rd down, almost 38 minutes of TOP. I thought it was the Bears' most impressive offensive performance of the year considering the circumstances.
The offense and Trubisky for sure got more conservative after he got hurt and the Rams game.
I think that was part of the reason for the low point total.
Nagy realized that as they approached the playoffs the defense was going to win games and the offense had to compliment them, and that is what they did going 4-0 and winning the division. They actually really officially turned the team over to the defense when Trubisky got hurt.
They did the same thing in the playoffs. Played conservative/complimentary offense and it would have worked again if not for Parkey. That wasn’t going to win them a Super Bowl, but it should have beaten the Eagles.
Obviously, in 2019 the offense needs to be more than that.
Nagy was billed as this really aggressive offensive minded coach so why would I be satisfied that he went into a shell as you described above particularly when we all know he had a kicker that was unreliable and playing this way may result in having to rely on said kicker?
Point being, there is no absolution here for Nagy. He fucked up a great season by not remaining aggressive and he should be called out for it. If all we wanted to do was win on defense then we should have just made Fangio the head coach but it is entirely fair to demand more from the offensive genius.
Doesn't mean he won't improve. Doesn't mean he is not coach of the year. But let's call a spade a spade. Relying on D to win and hoping Parkey could make 4 kicks was not the right plan. If you going to go down, go down playing your game and your game is supposed to be offense not playing Lovie Smith ball.
I said this once before, but I think the biggest coaching error was how Nagy had the Bears evidently sky-high to play a meaningless game against Minnesota, then the obligatory letdown occurred the following week against Philly, i.e. the game that actually counted.
The Bears performance against Minnesota was incredible. The Vikings had finally gotten their defensive players back from injury and were playing at home for their playoff lives. They had allowed 17ppg in their last 7 games. The Bears dominated them on both sides of the line. The offense did whatever it wanted to do. No turnovers or sacks, 8-14 on 3rd down, almost 38 minutes of TOP. I thought it was the Bears' most impressive offensive performance of the year considering the circumstances.
I don't disagree with much of the above. The issue I have is 8-14 on 3rd down and 38 minutes of ToP generally would result in a lot more than 24 points for an actual elite offensive team. The offense shows promise and at times can move the ball well but it doesn't convert all of that into points at a rate you would expect. They are not closing out their opportunities IMO and that falls on Nagy to fix. They will move the ball well and then get some delay of game or illegal shift or simply take too long to get plays in and then things will bog down.
Even on that last drive, they wasted so much fucking time after the ARob catch and then still burned a timeout. If they were more efficient getting plays in and being prepared then they would have probably saved the TO or some time but instead they looked lackadaisical trying to get another play off. And we have seen that for much of the year. He focuses on all his fancy bells and whistles but then the little things like this is the difference between a TD and a Parkey miss.
Because in the scenario they were in they could ride the defense to wins. It worked for 4/5 games and should have worked in the 5th game. The game in 2018 was never offense, it wasn't going to be offense, they were in the first year of building the offense. Nagy told you in his introductory press conference that the offense wasn't going to carry them and it was a process.
When the pressure/stakes went up he leaned on the best unit on the team. He leaned on a dominant defense and not an inconsistent offense.
I can guarantee if they had stayed aggressive and lost to the Packers, Vikings, or Eagles because of turnovers then people would be killing him for not getting out of the way of the defense.
The result sucked, so either approach would be criticized.
My biggest disappointment from the year is still not going for 2 against the Giants.
I did not say they went into a shell.
I said they ceded the drivers seat to the defense, which was the logical thing to do.
The mistake was against the Eagles, the defense did not have its fast ball, and the offense was not ready to offset the small defensive let down. That is more of an entire season development issue, than a in the moment mistake.
We knew at some point that the Bears were going to sacrifice offensive development to clinch the division and a playoff appearance.
Those are fair expectations for next season.
That is the fine tuning and development that the offense needs to take as they take the step from Nagy Offense for Beginners to Nagy Offense Stage 2.
If those same issues persist next season then we really have something to talk about.