Bears head coach Matt Nagy should be on a white hot seat

After another Bears loss, head coach Matt Nagy should be sitting on a fiery hot seat.

Through their first six games of the 2020 season, the Chicago Bears appeared to be proving all the doubters wrong. While head coach Matt Nagy had made the switch from Mitchell Trubisky to Nick Foles at quarterback, the offense was doing enough to capitalize on their elite defense, hence why they started the year at 5-1.

Since that time, however, the wheels have started to come off. With Sunday’s Week 9 loss to the Titans, the Bears have now lost three straight games and have fallen to 5-4 on the season. Hopes of possibly winning the NFC North have now quickly turned to the team clinging to their playoff lives in the Windy City.

There are undoubtedly issues with the personnel on the field for Chicago. The offensive line is a dramatic problem and the quarterback situation has not been solved by the offseason acquisition and subsequent switch to Foles. But when you get down to it, the blame has to start coming down on Matt Nagy.

And as crazy as it may seem for a team that’s still sitting at 5-4 on the year, the Bears head coach should be feeling some serious heat beneath him at this point in the year.

The Bears have to consider the viability of Matt Nagy moving forward.

Conceding the fact that the Chicago offense has inherent flaws that any head coach would have to deal with, Nagy has done absolutely nothing to maximize what’s with him. His run designs have been unimaginative, keeping young David Montgomery bottled up. That has then put more pressure on Foles to make plays as a passer.

Against Tennessee, Foles threw 52 passes. That’s never the recipe for success with him as the starting quarterback. Part of that was due to the Titans jumping out to a 17-0 lead but that also speaks to the abysmal start to the game for the Bears offense. There was no gameplan, no foresight and no imagination from Chicago out of the gate when they had possession.

Furthermore, the Bears have continued to struggle coming out of halftime, the time when head coaches — especially ones who have an offensive mind as Nagy was heralded as possessing — should adjust and come out ready to fire. Chicago has managed only seven third-quarter points in nine games this season. That’s downright atrocious and a statement on Nagy’s shortcomings.

Can Nagy save his job? Sure, it’s possible if Chicago were to turn things around down the stretch. But he’s shown no signs of that being in the cards with his play-calling and game management. For a Bears franchise that seems to be eyeing a front office overhaul, Matt Nagy is inching closer to being a casualty of that war.