Matt Nagy's last-place Bears aren't meeting expectations — and the fan base is enraged. How will he respond?
CHICAGO -- Matt Nagy was called to the witness stand Monday afternoon, a co-defendant in the trial that has ruined Chicago's fall. The people versus the 2019 Bears season.
Specifically, Nagy was summoned to piece together the events of the afternoon of October 27th. On that otherwise beautiful day at Soldier Field, Nagy's Bears had battered the home crowd's spirit while inflicting damage to their own playoff chances.
They lost 17-16 to a below-average Chargers team thanks in big part to massive red-zone struggles, two fourth-quarter turnovers and a game-deciding field goal that was pulled far enough left to turn a must-have win into a perplexing loss.
Break out the yellow tape. Call the detectives.
Nagy had already been interrogated Sunday afternoon, pressed on his play-calling and decision-making as well as the continued failures of his offense. A day later, he was cross-examined in greater detail, presented with evidence of his team's transgressions and asked to explain it all.
That conservative and debatable kneel-down with 43 seconds remaining that prevented the Bears from shortening Eddy Pineiro's last-second 41-yard field-goal attempt?
"Zero reflection on saying I wish I would've done something (different) there," Nagy said. "I would do it again a thousand times."
That second-quarter first-and-goal slant throw to tight end Adam Shaheen from the 1-yard line? Might it have been better as a fade?
"It's a possibility," Nagy said.
And what about the need for quarterback Mitch Trubisky to become much more reliable at making plays?
"There's that balance of (patience)," Nagy said, "and when is it time where you want to start seeing
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