Matt Nagy doesn’t need to know the odds. Somewhere, under his indomitable optimism, he’s probably aware that it’ll take quite a push by the Bears to get in the playoffs.
He knows which teams need to lose, as the Vikings did in Seattle on Monday. He caught parts of it while working late at Halas Hall, but it’s a safe bet he didn’t check Football Outsiders to see that it bumped the Bears’ chance by two percentage points to 3.6.
Doesn’t he feel 2 percent better?
“I guess,” Nagy said with a shrug. “If that’s what we need to hear.