The Matt Nagy era in Chicago is officially over. BryanPerezNFL looks back at the good, bad & the ugly of Nagy's time with the Bears as the team begins its search for a new head coach. FrontOffice33 | DaBears
The Chicago Bears officially ended the Matt Nagy era in a move that was expected following the embattled coach’s worst season on the job. He finished 2021 with an underwhelming 6-11 record after back-to-back seasons of .500 finishes at 8-8. Nagy ended his time with the Bears with a winning record—34-31 —but the team’s consistent descent since his first year with the club was undisputed.
“It feels good,” Nagy said after the win. “For me, though—and I mean this—it’s just more about us. It’s just so neat to start here from my first team meeting and meeting all the guys and seeing us grow. So I’m just really looking forward to the future of this team.”the NFL’s Coach of the Year in 2018 and with a second-year quarterback in Mitch Trubisky, who analysts like ESPN’s Louis Riddick suggested was a strong MVP candidate in 2019, the future was justifiably bright.
He failed. But when Foles took over the starting job, he failed too. In fact, Foles was so unimpressive that the Bears signed Andy Dalton in 2021’s offseason to presumably be the QB1, as the team’s social media squad infamously tweeted soon after the ink dried on Dalton’s deal. Nagy, the offensive guru, became downright offensive in 2021. His system, in which he served as the play-caller and had at least two of his guys orchestrating behind center, entered the final week of the 2021 season ranked among the NFL’s bottom five clubs. They finished 26th in total offense in 2020. They were 29th in 2019.
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