When you are a fan of a team, you can't really know if a coach is going to be fired or not. You can say that the record isn't good enough, but you can never be sure about the Bears. The chairman of the team, Jim Gaffigan, liked the way the team responded to a six-game losing streak, so he gave Matt Nagy another year. Think about that for a second. We didn't know what numbers mattered.
You have to go by feeling. It is never a lock, but when you feel it, you know. That came Sunday. The McCaskey family is a handy description of the evidence you are looking for. The first half had zero points. The formation is for a fourth down play. The defense forgot to cover someone on the final drive for the second game in a row. Wasting timeouts. This week they did not line up on the wrong side.
The coup de fuck this Sunday was getting beat by the Ravens backup QB in his first-ever start, with Baltimore playing without its top receiver. There is more of the same nonsensical playcalling. The false start on the first play after halftime was a personal favorite.
It all became too much for the Soldier Field faithful.
That is when you know. The McCaskeys like to hold onto things that they don't want to lose, such as their fans and the owners. They are almost too big of fans, because they have never watched a game without the Bears. They don't know what football looks like. They have to use the deflated football on Accorsi's head to find executives and coaches. Hearing the fans revolt will matter to them. The Bears can't part with Nagy without poisoning everything. They can't even use him for their next home game. They will because they are spineless and too fanlike.
We are almost there. There is always a chance that we will have an innovative coach that just has receivers running open all the time for Justin Fields, even though it will be this rolled-over clown car still making the decisions on a new coach and possibly a new GM. That they could get into a staff that calls plays that pick up yards in chunks instead of dribbling. All timeouts at the end of the half. Everyone knows their assignment in a team. We probably won't get it, but for the next few weeks I can hope that maybe, just maybe.
This is usually the best part. The first part of that sentence should be the focus.
