Not to Kick a Guy When He's Down, But---

Captain Happy Talk, aka Matt Nagy of the Bears, must’ve come into possession of a rare moment of clarity yesterday. The usual positive gibber yielded to something with a little more edge. Nagy told reporters, “Every freaking coach on the staff, ever player, better wake up and start understanding where we’re at.” Where you guys are at, Coach, is circling the drain. Shouldn’t you have gotten this ticked as soon as the losing streak reached two games, let alone five? I also read a comment by Nagy that instead of players taking ten from the jugs’ machine, they should take twenty. And that will do what, exactly, make receivers wish quarterback Mitch Trubisky were a jugs’ machine? Speaking of Trubisky, he said, “Everything was happening so fast on the field” when his fumble was run back for a Greenbay touchdown. This is the same guy who said he was blindsided by his benching and now says he has to do a better job of protecting the ball. And all this time I thought it was a good idea to throw into double- and triple-coverage. Nagy and Trubisky are both way in over their heads and may be, should be, gone by season’s end. But give them this, they show up to take their lumps from the media. But Dr. Frankenstein, aka GM Ryan Pace, is nowhere to be seen. Somebody should get him a copy of Profiles in Courage for Christmas. He can read it while job hunting,