The Chicago Bears will play their next game in primetime at the worst possible time as they have lost their last three games. They will host the Minnesota Vikings this upcoming  Monday Night as their offense continues to look for answers to help their defense. Head coach Matt Nagy has failed to develop a reliable offense over the last two seasons, and it may be time for general manager Ryan Pace to get involved.

Ryan Pace Needs To Get Involved

Nagy’s offense has gotten worse since switching to veteran quarterback Nick Foles back in week three as it has appears that the coach either won’t or doesn’t know how to get his offense back on track. Many fans and analysts believe it may be time for the Bears head coach to turn play-calling duties over to offensive coordinator Bill Lazor or quarterbacks’ coach John DeFilippo as both have experience calling plays. Nagy hasn’t entertained the thought, but as the weeks go on, his offense continues to decline. In two of the last three games, the offense has failed to score touchdowns in nine of the 12 quarters.

1. The sign of a good head coach is seen in trends. From year to year, is the team improving?

Matt Nagy has gone from 12-4 to 8-8 and now 5-4 with his team losing 3-straight and clearly spiraling.

His offense has also gone from 21st to 29th, to 29th.

No improvement. #Bears

— Erik Lambert (@ErikLambert1) November 9, 2020

Quarterback Mitchell Trubisky was benched two and a half games into the season because Nagy felt that he was holding the offense back. Trubisky is Pace’s most important draft selection, and it appears that the head coach has no intention of benching Foles, despite his struggles. If the team misses the playoffs due to Nagy’s unwillingness to either change play-callers or change quarterbacks, there will be wholesale changes, including Pace being fired.

The #Bears started 5-1. If they miss the playoffs, Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace must go.

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— CBS Sports Radio (@CBSSportsRadio) November 11, 2020

This is where Pace has to step up to save his job. If Nagy is too stubborn to give up play-calling, the general manager must step in to make changes. Furthermore, Pace can enforce a change at quarterback also. Foles has had several games in which he was more inaccurate and threw worse interceptions than Trubisky.

A lotta people owe Mitchell Trubisky an apology.

This o-line. The coach. It was never just the quarterback. He was just the easy scapegoat.

— Dave (@runbackdave) November 8, 2020

If Pace forces Nagy to give up play-calling duties to either Lazor and DeFilippo, which then leads to the team turning their fortune around to make the playoffs, there is a good chance not everyone will be fired. If a late-season turnaround is led by Trubisky, that further leads to the likelihood Pace would be retained.

General managers have stepped in to force changes for the betterment of the team during the season. Pace has every right to step in and institute changes because he is fully responsible for the construction of the current team and could be the voice that is needed if the head coach is unwilling to make the necessary moves to save his team’s season.

Inaction Has Gotten Former General Managers fired

Back at the end of 2014, former general manager Phil Emery was fired at the end of an embarrassing 5-11 season for his inability to take action. Emery stood by and didn’t intervene when head coach Marc Trestman continued to make foolish mistakes both on and off the field. The general manager stood by when Trestman unjustly benched quarterback Jay Cutler or when the coach didn’t fire his offensive coordinator after a negative national story.

#Bears GM Phil Emery says on @WBBMNewsradio that it was Marc Trestman's call on Aaron Kromer's future.

— Adam Jahns (@adamjahns) December 16, 2014

With the Bears record at 5-4 with their next two games being in primetime, if the offense struggles again, all focus will be on Nagy nationally. This, in turn, will shift to many asking where the general manager is for allowing the struggles to continue. Although the 2020 Bears are not in as bad of a situation as the 2014 Bears, Pace still needs to intervene if changes are not being made, if not, it shows that he supports every decision, which in turn could lead to his termination.