The only way to clearly identify Nagy’s problems is to play amateur psychologist
I suspect what is holding back Coach Nagy from being a great coach and at least a good play caller is his lack of belief in himself. Carl Jung taught that beneath all superiority complexes lie an inferiority complex. Nagy is stubborn and is clinging for dear life onto his role as play-caller.
Perhaps the reason for his inflexibility in how he runs the Bears offense is that he never really proved to the world and possibly himself that he is a good offensive coordinator before he got the Bears head coaching job. As much as he wanted this job, many of his actions indicate deep down he does not feel he deserved getting it. The evidence of this is the self-destructive decisions he has made as the game planner and play-caller on offense.
Matt Nagy believes in Andy Reid’s playbook but does he really believe in himself? During a game he seemingly spends more time looking at his playlist than doing anything else. Instead of focusing his mind and intuition on the game he looks for magic bullets in his playlist. The irrationality of it all is in itself mind-boggling. I believe Nagy is basically coping with a fear of failure and his bad decisions are him creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.