Is Matt Nagy coaching for Chicago Bears job at Lions?
It may not sound like it when you think of the circumstances, but Thursday is the biggest game of Matt Nagy’s coaching career. Things are going downhill, and Nagy will almost surely be relieved of his duties at the end of this season. The Chicago Bears have never fired a coach in the season, and there is not a great benefit to it anyway.
However, when you break down the circumstances, you can certainly argue that if Matt Nagy loses to the Detroit Lions, he would be the first coach that the Chicago Bears have ever fired in-season.
To start, the loss would mark a six-game losing streak. Matt Nagy has already let go of play-calling duties, and the argument was he would get better in-game. After blowing two leads in-game, reports are out that he is now losing the locker room.
The easiest sign to Nagy losing the locker room would be a loss to the Detroit Lions. The Lions are currently winless. They are talent deficient, but they try every week. They push teams to the brink, but they cannot get out of their way.
The reality is that if they catch a team that is not very talented and is not fully invested, they will beat them. The Bears are not good enough to sleepwalk through a Lions game, and that team will fight until the end. If the Bears are not all-in for their coach, they will fall over.
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Losing to a winless team and one in the division could be the final nail for Nagy. Nagy has always owned the Lions and Vikings, and he has always done well against the Lions on Thanksgiving. A national television embarrassment would show that the team has lost all belief in him. At that point, it would be at least worth questioning whether the team would make the in-season firing.