going well there a report emerged today from a Pulitzer
prize-winning reporter who doesn't cover the bears but
it's been a part of the Chicago seen for a long time that Matt
Nagy to coach the Bears
was told on Monday that he'll be fired after Thursday's game
against the Detroit Lions here is Matt Nagy when he met with
the media several hours ago with the first topic of course
being the veracity of the report that he's been told he's
out
have you heard from your last game
that is not accurate you know I have not you know I have great
communication with ownership with Jordan Ted and Ryan but
I have not had any discussions
just this week we have not talked this week and that's
that was scheduled you know that's been we we have
a schedule over the years before we had discussion someone like
you guys always here to talk about you know we have constant
communication I always think
it's good and healthy and then so we we stayed on course and
with the bye week and then with the short turnaround to all
with game prep we have not surprised that the Bears
decided and then this is a PR decision and I guess you would
say it falls within that
realm of reasonable Minds May differ but the Bears didn't
react quickly to this report they didn't put out a statement
would have been very easy to put out a statement from
ownership not from the coach but from ownership because
here's the thing if anybody's going to
lie about this let the guy lie who's leaving we won't let
the people who actually had told the guy who's getting fired
then it's false we won't have a statement from George McCaskey
or Ted Phillips that it's false because they'd be lying that's
what the guy
who is going to be here because who cares if he didn't tell
the truth 2 days before got whacked and I hadn't thought of that
until just now but why didn't you put out a statement why
didn't you shout it down and it festered for 3
hours I was going to do anything about it but it caught fire
and then I did a little research I see this guy won
the Pulitzer well that's good enough for me so it wouldn't
put it out there and attached his name to it if he didn't
hear from somebody that you trusted so we'll see what
happened we
have our time together just talked yesterday about broken
ribs Sunday night ribs aren't broken by Tuesday ribs are
broken I mean we see it all the time and if they lose to
the Lions on on Thursday we're going to say when I mean if
that's what
he's been told and they win the game and they should they
should beat the Lions would that be something a guy gets
fired after he wins a game I'm not sure that's ever happened
Shireen other than to Jon Gruden
yeah I don't know that it's happened either Mike now that
you say that so yeah that would be crazy if that happened you
know maybe they have made their decision based on what happens
Thursday if they lose the game they Farm if they win the game
bears as we know I've never fired a coach in the middle of
seasoning that was yours if that was the case and that
wasn't going to happen be like Jerry Jones Fern himself as GM
and that's not going to ever happen but maybe his future
is hinging his immediate future is hinging on this game on
Thursday and if they win it keeps his job if they lose they
don't and it would be very strange if they win this game
and they fire them anyway and I don't know what would be
the point of a fire and Thursday if they win this game
like I don't see any point in that but I do think Matt nagy's
days in Chicago or numbered as in he is not going to be
the head coach in 2020 and by the way
I was incorrect the Raiders lost right before Jon Gruden
was fired I went after he was fired but they didn't win that
game that strange weekend between the leak to the emails
but as the Bears when
they traded up from 20 to 11 to take Justin Fields I thought
that was an indication that they've decided we're staying
the course with Matt Nagy is the coach with Ryan Paces 2 GM
and with Ted Phillips at the present because frankly at some
point Phillips
has to be on the firing line cuz he's the guy who's been
there for 20 years hiring the likes of Marc Trestman and Phil
Emery to be coach and GM respectively and at some point
you got to say the guy that we put in charge of
this team isn't getting it done we need a new team president
cuz he's the one that brought these guys in and to the extent
that there was some sort of a collective decision that they
were going to to stay the course
once they get Justin fields and not fire Matt Nagy you know
the problem that they are running into here is if they fire Nagy
now or later you have to find a coach that is on board with
Justin Fields cuz there's a chance just like you
get a GM that's all I'm over the coach is a chance you're
going to get a coach he's not a ball with the quarterback what
happened a decade ago in Denver
Josh McDaniels becomes coach of the Broncos for first order of
business was a run Jay Cutler out the door they trade him to
the Bears or the Bears know exactly what can happen if you
fire a coach bringing a new coach and you have a hold
of her quarterback there's a chance that new coach will say
all the right things to get that five-year guaranteed
contract once he's there that's what I worry about whether or
not he likes the quarterback or doesn't like the quarterback or
thinks the quarterback 50 system whatever
the case may be so now that's a real risk they're going to take
if they fire Matt Nagy but it could be that Ted Phillips has
thrown you overboard to save himself cuz I'm telling you at
some point Phillips has to be on the firing line
here most teams have that person who is the team
president who is in position and have different types but
in position to claim credit when things go well and in
position to Run for Cover when things don't go well and never
held accountable or rarely held accountable it takes fifteen or
twenty years before ownership finally says you know you know
who the problem is the
guy who never gets fired the guy who's hiring the guys that
were firing maybe that guy needs to be fired and I I think
that if this collapses in Chicago it is time to hit
the true reset button all the way up to the team president
well this is a team Mike and hadn't won a playoff game since
2010 that wants a new stadium that has everybody in the city
chanting fire Matt Nagy I mean to hurt it at the Bulls game
loudly last night they want this guy gone so it's hard
to sell season tickets it's hard to sell people on this
team if Matt Nagy stays around and it may go all the way up to
Ted Phillips and they need to hire better coaches than what
they've hired recently because it hasn't worked out yes they
went
12 + 4 + 20/18 but what it in do the double joint ends their
season anyway in the first round they can't even want to
play a game that year when they're 12 + 4 + 8 + 8 + 8 now
we know there's three and
seven just not a very good team it hasn't gone in the direction
they wanted it to go to go and maybe they need to absolutely
clean house and start over and by the way you talked about
the quarterback one of the teams that Russell Wilson's agent
named in the offseason was the Chicago Bears by the way
we're right because that was Matt Nagy was there and and he
thought maybe if I pair up with Matt Nagy I get myself and Andy
Reid stop at the office I believe may be the next step in
the recipe Wilson Saga in Seattle will be get
rid of Shane Waldron and bringing Matt Nagy to be my
offensive coordinator I'm not sure how else will feel about
that after seeing how the Bears have gone lately but Chicago
special Town great fan base with the team just doesn't
deliver and for
the dysfunctional teams the Common Thread is ownership and
ownership typically does a good job of keeping their head low
their mouths shut and their butts off the lot cuz what can
you do you can't fire the owner and no one has ever been forced
to sell
because the team is perpetually bad who has ever sold the team
because they just said you know what I suck at this I'm not
good at owning a team I'm going to sell no one doesn't so
you're just stuck you're stuck until they do or until
somebody in the family somebody with the DNA the traces to
George Halas ends up Landing in a position where that person
has the skills and abilities and can lead the team out of
the reason why I love the NFL you get these bills
billion-dollar organizations that
automatically or run like monarchies and eventually that
team is going to get passed to somebody who doesn't know what
the hell they're doing and it's going to be a mess and I think
that's part of the problem with a lot of these bad teams it's
the
ownership but it's not obvious because they don't want to be
obvious they want to have someone else to blame for
the fact the team is so bad
the fish stinks from the head down Mike and I it's a great
quote and it applies the Bears as much as it applies
the Giants because with their history and what they've done
here lately I had absolutely goes up to ownership and goes
up to Ted
Fields presently organisation all the way down it's just not
a very good organization right now and they need to do
something to fix it
well we'll see what they do and we'll see if Matt Nagy is
employed when Friday rolls around last year that was
the swan song for Matt Patricia and it does give a team that's
already had its bi-week a mini by to get ready for the next
game because you fired the guy Thursday night and theory and
I won't knot Theory and reality get a couple extra days that
I don't know it's going to matter but it is going to give you
some extra time to turn around and see where it goes
to bears do have never fired a head coach during the season
that has something to do with the fact that George Halas
coach the team for 40 years I never knew that if I knew what
I forgot that this amaze me today when I looked up
George Halas is coaching record he coached the team for
different times ten years at a time like 10 years was all
I could do it and I'm done for a couple years and it come back
and do it ten more years cuz I'm done for a
couple 10 more years I'm done for a couple years and then
finally 10 more years and he was done for good but yeah he's
not going to fire himself just like Jerry Jones and go to fire
himself as the GM and the fan base just had
yeah it looks looks good the mccaskey's in there as head
coach I would love to see that right I don't know if they
could do any worse than some of the coaches if they had hear
recently but the love to see the mccaskey's take over as
head
coach