What Goes Around Comes Around

The McCaskeys love that Chicago is a football town. Like I said yesterday, “baseball hat” means Bears’ cap in these parts. Unfortunately for the heirs of Halas, they’re clueless on how to how a football franchise. Any ownership not collectively asleep at the wheel would have thought long and hard about giving head coach Matt Nagy a fourth season. Even if that ownership decided thumbs up, I doubt they would have jabbered on about how important collaboration is to a team. Yesterday, Nagy’s Munsters fell to 3-7 after a 16-13 loss to the visiting Ravens, playing without star quarterback Lamar Jackson. Not to worry. Second-stringer Tyler Huntley made his first-ever start and led a touchdown-winning drive after the Munsters went ahead with 1:41 left to play. What’s the kids’ song? Right, We All Fall Down. Well, that’s the Bears’ defense in a nutshell, allowing back-to-back winning scores in the final seconds of a game. There’s just so many examples of ineptitude on defense, on offense (hello, Justin Fields), from coaching (tell me again, no, tell the Munsters, what timeouts are for), I wouldn’t know where to start. After the game, a defeated-looking and -sounding Nagy said something about how his “guys are battling,” as if that matters. Nagy’s tendency to talk in cliches heavy on the feel-good may have been affected by the way he was treated coming off the field by fans. Some shouted, “Fire Nagy!” while others accused him of committing an act that police won’t tolerate in public. The peasants, fed on stories of glory about Da Coach and His Boys or the great warriors of the past (Butkus, Grange, Payton, Sayers, repeat), see only incompetence set before them, not a good thing where football is the talk of the town. Nagy should be gone by season’s end. If the Munsters lose to the winless Lions on Thanksgiving, he will be. And GM Ryan Pace, who shows himself during the season less than Dracula in the daytime? I doubt he can collaborate his way out of this mess.