Gone

Thank goodness the Bears didn’t stop playing for their now ex-coach yesterday. Otherwise, I would’ve thought getting outscored 31-3 after being ahead 14-0 in Minnesota was proof of tossing in the towel. The McCaskeys roused themselves out of winter hibernation this morning to fire both Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace, the man who hired him back in 2018. It’s fashionable now to talk about Nagy “word salad,” or how he expressed himself. In today’s The Athletic, Jon Greenberg went a step further, describing Nagy-speak as “well-meaning incoherence.” Better late than never in noticing that, guys. Nagy employed the same gibber-speak throughout his four years in Chicago. Nobody outside of Dan Hampton and Ed O’Bradovich, the crazy—and I do mean crazy—ex-Bears, called him out for it in the beginning. The Munsters won the division in Nagy’s first year, so he got a pass. And everyone was too stunned by how quickly they embraced mediocrity the next season to say anything about the coach’s podium ponderings. The Bears have been petrified of throwing the ball downfield ever since they hired Lovie Smith back in 2004. A good start in hiring a new GM would be to answer the following question: What do you do on offense? Hire the first guy/woman who answers; Run it up the middle, throw it over the middle. Same goes for the next coach. Anything else will mean the same old same old.