Coach Chicken Little

Coach Chicken Little

Bears’ coach Matt Nagy was back at it yesterday, coming up with yet another disaster scenario if he’d gone off and run another play or two with 43 seconds left in the game, the ball on the Chargers’ 21 and one timeout remaining.  Nagy told a reporter to “check out the stat if there’s any holds when you call a run play and see what happens if there’s a hold.”  For that matter, check and see how many people die after getting out of bed in the morning.

But Nagy was on some sort of roll and pointed to Sunday’s Colts-Broncos’ game.  Down a point with 1:29 left in the fourth quarter and the ball on Denver’s 34, Indianapolis ran three plays resulting in a one-yard gain.  The horror!  Oh, wait.  Colts’ coach Frank Reich knew he had future HOFer Adam Vinatieri in reserve even if the play-calling didn’t get him any closer to the end zone.  Lo and behold, Vinatieri kicked a 51-yard field goal to win the game.  It’s nice when the coaching staff and front office can get the right player for just that sort of thing.

“I would do it again a thousand times,” said the coach formerly fond of gadget plays but now seemingly afraid the sky is falling down on him.  If the McCaskeys and GM Ryan Pace have their way, I’m sure that means one down, nine hundred and ninety-nine to go.  Oh, my.