Chicago Bears: Does Matt Nagy have bye week magic?

Will Matt Nagy have the same success off of the bye week as his mentor Andy Reid?

One interesting quirk around Andy Reid as a head coach was his tremendous ability to come off of a bye week. Reid is a ridiculous 16-3 when his team has the extra week to prepare. This makes sense when you think of who Reid is as a coach.

Reid is the ultimate game planner. He can lose games with clock management or off-script decisions, but the script is dynamite. Give him two weeks to put one together, and he is ready.

This is a similarity that came with Matt Nagy with his very first game as a head coach. Remember that game script and the haymaker that he threw the Green Bay Packers? Of course, as the game went on, he showed that he follows Reid in terms of management and let one slip away from him.

Still, with Nagy showing some similarities to Reid as a coach early into his career, and many comments around Nagy being that he is one of Reid’s closest proteges-Nagy is the only coach to call plays under Reid-maybe Nagy has that magic touch to put teams to bed after a bye as well.

The Reid tree

One thing that is worth noting is that the Reid coaching tree is 18-18 off of a bye. However, a notable name to take away from that is John Harbaugh, who is 8-2 off of the bye with the Ravens.

Ron Rivera is the second-longest tenured coach from that tree, and he is 3-4, though. Steve Spagnuolo and Leslie Frazier are a combined 0-7, and I think we can all agree that those are not quality caliber coaches.

Here is the entire list

John Harbaugh 8-2 

Ron Rivera 3-4 

Steve Spagnuolo 0-3 

Todd Bowles 1-2 

Doug Pederson 1-1

Sean McDermott 1-0 

Brad Childress 4-0 

Leslie Frazier 0-4 

Pat Shurmur 0-2 

Now, it is time for Nagy to write his own legacy and prove that is closer to the Harbaugh and the Reid version of preparedness off of the bye.