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Chicago Bears coach Matt Nagy says all 3 quarterbacks under consideration to start vs. Detroit Lions
"All three are under consideration right now in regards to where they're at, so we'll just kind of have to see in the next couple days where they're all at," Nagy said. "We know where Nick's at, health-wise, but we just want to keep an eye on Justin and Andy. Then, for us to stay on that and make sure that we have a plan for any of those."
Entire article: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...terbacks-consideration-start-vs-detroit-lions
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NFL coach hot seat rankings after Week 3: Joe Judge on rapidly thinning ice, Urban Meyer off to abysmal start
2. Matt Nagy, Bears
You won't find many who'll keep a straight face when calling Nagy a bad coach, at least not in general. It's because that's a joke of a statement, all things considered. But it often takes more than love to keep a marriage going, and things are getting a bit thin in the Windy City air. To be fair, Nagy did not draft Mitchell Trubisky, nor did he make a trade for Nick Foles. You could argue he's simply playing the cards dealt to him, but that only goes so far in any potential argument to keep his job. Fact is, Bears fans are and have been restless for some time now, still reeling from the one-point playoff loss to the Eagles and a wildly disappointing effort in last season's wild card loss to the New Orleans Saints. Now it's a 1-2 start to the season that has seen the Bears throttled on two occasions while barely escaping the Cincinnati Bengals.
The early decision to go with Andy Dalton as the starter was questionable, but now you wonder if it matters after seeing rookie first-round pick Justin Fields get sacked nine times in his debut as an NFL starter in Week 3 against the Cleveland Browns in the wake of Dalton's knee injury. The Bears offense is a mess right now, and Nagy has also already proclaimed Dalton the starter when he returns -- ignoring at least the possibility Fields could be great if protected for more than one play per quarter. Again, Nagy isn't a bad coach, but his run of bad offensive decisions has his seat getting very hot right now.
And with the scrappy Detroit Lions waiting in Week 4, followed by a gauntlet of opponents, it feels like it's now or never for Nagy.
Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...hinning-ice-urban-meyer-off-to-abysmal-start/
2. Matt Nagy, Bears
You won't find many who'll keep a straight face when calling Nagy a bad coach, at least not in general. It's because that's a joke of a statement, all things considered. But it often takes more than love to keep a marriage going, and things are getting a bit thin in the Windy City air. To be fair, Nagy did not draft Mitchell Trubisky, nor did he make a trade for Nick Foles. You could argue he's simply playing the cards dealt to him, but that only goes so far in any potential argument to keep his job. Fact is, Bears fans are and have been restless for some time now, still reeling from the one-point playoff loss to the Eagles and a wildly disappointing effort in last season's wild card loss to the New Orleans Saints. Now it's a 1-2 start to the season that has seen the Bears throttled on two occasions while barely escaping the Cincinnati Bengals.
The early decision to go with Andy Dalton as the starter was questionable, but now you wonder if it matters after seeing rookie first-round pick Justin Fields get sacked nine times in his debut as an NFL starter in Week 3 against the Cleveland Browns in the wake of Dalton's knee injury. The Bears offense is a mess right now, and Nagy has also already proclaimed Dalton the starter when he returns -- ignoring at least the possibility Fields could be great if protected for more than one play per quarter. Again, Nagy isn't a bad coach, but his run of bad offensive decisions has his seat getting very hot right now.
And with the scrappy Detroit Lions waiting in Week 4, followed by a gauntlet of opponents, it feels like it's now or never for Nagy.
Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...hinning-ice-urban-meyer-off-to-abysmal-start/
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How Matt Nagy failed Justin Fields
There are coaches who are highly regarded for their ability to develop and bring the best out of quarterbacks. Andy Reid of the Chiefs is certainly one, and that’s been the case for decades — certainly during his time with the Eagles from 1999 through 2012, as well. When the Bears hired former Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy in 2018, they were obviously under the assumption that Nagy had picked up enough from Reid to right a quarterback situation that hasn’t been above league average since World War II, and most of the time, “league-average” would be damning the Bears with faint praise. Nagy had been with Reid since 2008 as a coaching intern with the Eagles, and he’d moved his way up to offensive quality control, then quarterbacks coach, then offensive coordinator. Were Nagy to turn out to be some sort of schematic and philosophical fraud, you could give the Bears the benefit of the doubt — if Andy Reid trusted this guy this much, why shouldn’t we?
We’re now three games into the fourth season of the Matt Nagy Experiment, and it’s worse than it’s ever been. No quarterback under Nagy has been able to maintain even a middle-tier combination of efficiency, explosiveness, and efficiency. Even after Nagy, offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich, and offensive assistant Brad Childress were able to help Mitchell Trubisky to a 24-touchdown, 12-interception season in 2018, Trubisky started to regress as the coaching staff under Nagy changed. Then, it was the decision to add Nick Foles to the roster, which has been another exercise for which the Bears have seen very little. Before the 2021 season, Chicago signed veteran placeholder Andy Dalton to a one-year, $10 million contract, and then traded up in the draft to select Ohio State’s Justin Fields with the 11th overall pick.
As expected, this has also been a disaster. Through the preseason, Nagy planted Dalton with the starters and kept Fields with the backups until the final preseason game. Despite that, Fields proved more able in every possible category — from operating under pressure to throwing the deep ball. Dalton remained the starter on a no-matter-what basis until he suffered a knee injury against the Bengals in Week 2 that now has him week-to-week.
So, it was time for Fields to start in Week 3 against the Browns. At the same time Nagy was telling everyone that Dalton would be the starter going forward no matter what Fields did, he was ignoring the playbook for his young quarterback in a truly epic fashion.
The results were entirely predictable. In a 26-6 thrashing by the Browns, Fields completed six of 20 passes for 68 yards, no touchdowns, no interceptions, nine sacks for 67 lost yards, and a quarterback rating of 41.2.
Entire article: https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/lists/fire-matt-nagy-justin-fields-andy-dalton-nick-foles/
There are coaches who are highly regarded for their ability to develop and bring the best out of quarterbacks. Andy Reid of the Chiefs is certainly one, and that’s been the case for decades — certainly during his time with the Eagles from 1999 through 2012, as well. When the Bears hired former Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy in 2018, they were obviously under the assumption that Nagy had picked up enough from Reid to right a quarterback situation that hasn’t been above league average since World War II, and most of the time, “league-average” would be damning the Bears with faint praise. Nagy had been with Reid since 2008 as a coaching intern with the Eagles, and he’d moved his way up to offensive quality control, then quarterbacks coach, then offensive coordinator. Were Nagy to turn out to be some sort of schematic and philosophical fraud, you could give the Bears the benefit of the doubt — if Andy Reid trusted this guy this much, why shouldn’t we?
We’re now three games into the fourth season of the Matt Nagy Experiment, and it’s worse than it’s ever been. No quarterback under Nagy has been able to maintain even a middle-tier combination of efficiency, explosiveness, and efficiency. Even after Nagy, offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich, and offensive assistant Brad Childress were able to help Mitchell Trubisky to a 24-touchdown, 12-interception season in 2018, Trubisky started to regress as the coaching staff under Nagy changed. Then, it was the decision to add Nick Foles to the roster, which has been another exercise for which the Bears have seen very little. Before the 2021 season, Chicago signed veteran placeholder Andy Dalton to a one-year, $10 million contract, and then traded up in the draft to select Ohio State’s Justin Fields with the 11th overall pick.
As expected, this has also been a disaster. Through the preseason, Nagy planted Dalton with the starters and kept Fields with the backups until the final preseason game. Despite that, Fields proved more able in every possible category — from operating under pressure to throwing the deep ball. Dalton remained the starter on a no-matter-what basis until he suffered a knee injury against the Bengals in Week 2 that now has him week-to-week.
So, it was time for Fields to start in Week 3 against the Browns. At the same time Nagy was telling everyone that Dalton would be the starter going forward no matter what Fields did, he was ignoring the playbook for his young quarterback in a truly epic fashion.
The results were entirely predictable. In a 26-6 thrashing by the Browns, Fields completed six of 20 passes for 68 yards, no touchdowns, no interceptions, nine sacks for 67 lost yards, and a quarterback rating of 41.2.
Entire article: https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/lists/fire-matt-nagy-justin-fields-andy-dalton-nick-foles/
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“I honestly feel like they need to shorten up the passing game,” Hester said on ESPN Radio. “It’s too many balls trying to go down the field when you have a defense lurking like that. One of the guys gets 4.5 sacks and you put him in the Pro Bowl with one game. They need to shorten the pass game, quick passes, get the ball to the receivers, open up the running game, that way (Fields) can get comfortable. Then he can run some play action and doesn’t have to sit back there and try to throw downfield the entire game.”
Hester believes there’s something special about Fields. The first-round pick is loaded with talent and has a bright future. But he needs to be in a system that gets the most out of him.
“This guy is in the category with Kyler Murray, Russell Wilson and he has a little Lamar Jackson in him,” Hester said. “At the end of the day, it don’t matter how good you are, if you’re not getting the right call, then you’ll never show off what you can really do.”
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“Fields typically holds the ball too long,” Dilfer said. “It was the knock coming out. Let’s go back to pre-draft stuff, which nobody ever likes to do. But let’s actually go back to pre-draft concerns. Pre-draft concerns for Fields — again, love the kid, loved him — but, as we talked when he was in my office before the draft talking, I said, ‘You hold the ball too long. You’re gonna have to process quicker.’ It’s not an intellectual thing, it’s a ‘Waiting for something better to happen,’ thing, The biggest mistake I made and one of my regrets, and a lot of us average NFL quarterbacks make, is that we don’t take the cheese. We don’t take the thing right now that’s right in front of us that’s free.”
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ESPN Ticker: Justin Fields to start Sunday.
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Didn't watch the game: however the Bears won and Fields put up his best number yet:
11/17, 209 yards, 12.3 ave. (with 1 int and 1 sack).
Just sayin': Fields to Mooney looks like a pretty good combination...
11/17, 209 yards, 12.3 ave. (with 1 int and 1 sack).
Just sayin': Fields to Mooney looks like a pretty good combination...
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Let Dalton have it RB 1 and 2 are both hurt. Bears can’t handle speed rushers.
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With Montgomery and Willams out..Fields passing 50 times is unhealthy.Burrow approves this message. Bears not a playoff team this year.
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