We should have known right away that everything would be on the table this season for Matt Nagy and the Chicago Bears. On his first play call of the 2018 season, Nagy gave us his ode to Bears history with “Papa Bear Left,” a handoff to Tarik Cohen out of the old T-formation popularized in the NFL by Bears founder George Halas.
Although that formation has barely been seen in the league since the 1950s, Nagy installed the play — both as a nod to the franchise’s inedible mark on football history and as a sign of things to come.