A lot of people came out with heated comments about Matt Nagy after the Chicago Bears’ offensive disaster on Sunday against the New Orleans Saints. It wasn’t a big surprise. The Bears only ran the ball seven times and quarterback Mitch Trubisky put together the worst performance of his young career. This despite not throwing an interception or fumbling the ball. It was more about how many missed opportunities he had and how lost he appeared.
That falls at the feet of Nagy. Some are starting to wonder if the scheme is flawed and the coach simply doesn’t know how to adjust. Among the more outspoken critics from this past week is Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner. He took to Twitter shortly after the defeat in a bit of an uproar. He struggled to understand what the Bears were trying to accomplish with their system in regards to helping Trubisky.
It seems though that time to think has altered his thinking. Rather than just stick to his original statement, Warner decided to go back and watch the game in greater detail. Once he’d done this, he went back to Twitter with another statement. One that sheds an interesting light on where the actual blame belongs for the Bears’ offensive woes.
Kurt Warner is right. Nagy isn’t perfect but he’s not the problem
The truth is that Nagy can only draw up the plays. It falls on the players to execute them properly. They haven’t done that this year. There have been missed blocks, bad reads, bad routes, and ill-timed penalties. If it’s not one thing, it’s another with this group. Obviously it all starts at the quarterback position. Trubisky probably should not have thrown the ball 54 times on Sunday. Even so, he left several big plays out on the field.
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Does Nagy need to run the ball more often? Yes. He admits this much. That said, it isn’t like his pass call are all terrible. There were numerous times where he got guys open not just against New Orleans but in weeks past. The problem is the quarterbacks either aren’t hitting them or the receivers are dropping them. The Bears offense should be producing far more than they haven’t to this point and it comes down to a lack of focus.
That’s another part of Nagy’s job that he’ll have to adjust.
