Matt Nagy is keeping everything close to the vest. He doesn’t want anybody outside the Chicago Bears building to know whether Mitch Trubisky or Nick Foles will be the quarterback. That is why many think he’s feeding the narrative that he still doesn’t have a clear indication of who the guy ultimately will be.
Beat writers have their own opinions but the general consensus seems to be that Foles has looked slightly more consistent than Trubisky to this point. At the same time, Trubisky has had more big plays. Nagy said both have looked good in camp but neither has created enough separation from the other.
“It is not easy. It’s not clear-cut.”
So what will he do? What the head coach always goes back to. The tape. The plan is for him and the offensive staff to lock themselves in a room this week and go over every single rep the two quarterbacks took in camp.
“We’re going to dig really hard into the why. And then we’re going to look at situational football. And then we’re going to look at what’s around him: Is it 1 v. 2? 2 v. 1?”
That wasn’t the most interesting comment though.
In the midst of talking about how they’ll approach this evaluation, Nagy made an off-handed comment that was more interesting than he made it seem. One that indicates there isn’t much consensus on the staff about who should be the guy.
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“We all have our own opinions of where we’re at. But you have these daily schedules and these daily scriptings that we’re doing just to get the next day ready. And so now what we can do as an offensive coaching staff is we can pull back, we get through [Thursday], and we’ll basically take every clip of every snap of both quarterbacks.”
Matt Nagy may not get a unanimous return on this
That is fascinating. It makes one wonder which coaches are in the corner of which quarterback. There is no way to know for sure. Yet the message is clear enough. This competition is too close to call. Whether people take an optimistic or pessimistic view of that doesn’t matter. It just means Nagy may have to be the one who is the deciding vote. He may not get the consensus he’s hoping for with this tape evaluation.
This is what he gets paid the big bucks for. Head coaches have to be the ones who make the tough decisions. The ones that will determine the course of an entire season. Does he give Trubisky one last chance, believing the competition and third year in the system is enough to finally help him blossom? Or does he go with the proven commodity in Foles who isn’t always pretty but is consistent, smart, and has a Super Bowl ring?
Say one thing. Be glad you’re not in his shoes right now.
