There’s a very good chance this is the last thing Matt Nagy wanted.
He has insisted he loves the ground game just as much as taking to the sky ever since he became the first coach in Bears history to run just seven times in a game, but it comes off as an oversell.
Who could blame him, by the way?
Like any former quarterback, he’d love to just let it rip. His coaching career took off in the golden age of passing, and he was on a Chiefs staff that swooned for Patrick Mahomes.
But in the fallout of Mitch Trubisky throwing 54 times in a blowout loss, Nagy veered sharply the other direction and found a new way forward for the Bears’ offense.