The Marshall Plan wrote: ↑Mon Nov 22, 2021 4:39 pm
When Nagy does get fired I just don't know if the Bears HC job has the allure it once did.
Pros:
Soldier Fields
Big market original franchise
Monty
Mooney
Not much else
Cons:
OL
Defense in decline
Cap situation
A bad GM
The McCaskey family and their assorted idiocies and blunderings of HC interviews / hires
We're looking at a 2 or 3 year rebuild. Unless Pace takes the OL very seriously and hires the right HC I just don't see this team amounting to a hill of shit almost regardless of what Fields does.
The biggest negative by far is the organisation itself. Markets and history mean a heck of a lot less than the opportunity to be successful. The Bears' almost complete lack of success since before the millennium is going to factor into a coach's decision if he has another offer on the table.
On the other hand, to the pros you can add the quality of the Halas Hall facility following its major upgrade and refurbishment. It's up there with any in the NFL. Also the owners leave the coaches alone to do their jobs unlike some.
Another pro may be some young potential. Any of the likes of Borom, Herbert, Kmet, Horsted, Bars etc. might prove to be better than they've been allowed to be with Nagy in charge (plus Jenkins who might yet turn out to be what we all hoped). The problem is we just don't know which is why I want to see what they can do without Nagy, starting with the remaining games this year following Thanksgiving. Nagy's offense, personnel selection and usage, and input into game planning (which he went to great lengths to assure everybody he still had major input into after the offense looked notably better with Lazor making the calls) mean that we really don't know how good a lot of players might actually be. Maybe they'll turn out to be a bunch of JAGs but the fact that nobody not named Robinson has enjoyed any real success or much in the way of development in four years under Nagy has to leave us wondering.