Cause they hired Andy Reid

Some other people did great breaking it down, so I’ll offer a bit of a different exercise for people regarding this topic.

Next time you are watching the Rams, 49ers, Chiefs, and Dolphins, notice how many times you and the announcers think “oh that was a clever/good play.” Whether in how it designed, how it was executed, or when it was called. You’ll notice that you probably will have that thought/hear the announcers comment that a handful (5-10) times in a game.

Then watch the Bears offense, and how many times do you think/hear the same thing? When was the last time the Bears offense really did something that wowed you, that wasn’t Fields/DJ/some skill player making an incredible individual effort play. Something that you just went “oh they are being really smart in how they are approaching this game.”

Nagy had some moments like that his first year, but he’s not the innovative play designer of Reid, so eventually his gimmicks got found out and there was no putting the genie back in the bottle. I have NEVER felt confident or impressed with Getsy’s plays. Almost always he overthinks critical moments, there is no offensive identity besides forcing the run and short passing game regardless of what is happening, and it feels like our players are constantly in positions where they are really unlikely to succeed or where their weaknesses are getting exploited rather than their strengths being taken advantage of.

All of these were reasons we fired Nagy as well. A core issue in this franchise has been the historically inept ability to understand and build offenses. Both of our SB appearances required historic defenses and HOF skill players. 85 obviously had Walter fucking Payton. ‘06 had Hester.

Insert that corny “insanity is trying the same thing over and over…” quote here