Tankathon Rankings 2025 Draft

[BearFan PHX]

9 minutes ago, Stinger226 said:

SOURCES: Bears interested in promising OC from Kansas City to fill HC vacancy. Has prior HC experience and has played a role in developing perennial MVP candidate Patrick Mahomes.

I thought this was kinda funny. 

LOL that is funny!

[DABEARSDABOMB]

3 hours ago, BearFan PHX said:

LOL that is funny!

In hindsight - Nagy was probably a pretty good head coach. He made playoffs twice in his 4 year run with Trubisky who was clearly not that good. 
 

If you have him Caleb I think he would have crushed it. 

[BearFan PHX]

47 minutes ago, DABEARSDABOMB said:

In hindsight - Nagy was probably a pretty good head coach. He made playoffs twice in his 4 year run with Trubisky who was clearly not that good. 
 

If you have him Caleb I think he would have crushed it. 

dont forget, the defense bailed him out a lot, and we were always trying to out trick the opponent.

Waldron did that too. EVeryone in the NFL is smart, and theyve seen pretty much everything before. The trick is talent, execution and discipline. You want a coach who scouts good matchups and takes advantage of them - someone who sees what the other guy is doing and knows when to counter off of it - a master rock, paper scissors player.

Nagy, like Waldron, never had any rhythm to counter off of. We didnt have an offensive identity - something we could do even if you tried to stop us - something to make the defense over commit so we could catch them with a counter.

Ive always believed good offensive play calling doesnt mean being unpredictable - it means beaing mostly predictable with things that succeed anyway even if the defense knows its coming, and then a counter off of that at the right moment.

For example, establish the run, pound the ball behind a great guard or tackle, until the defense has to bring an 8th guy into the box and then punish them over the top. That's one example of how to do it, although in the modern age a short passing game can do that too.

But the festival of bubble screens was really frustrating as you remember, and once the league got a book on us, it wasnt working at all.

[Bears4Ever_34]

22 hours ago, DABEARSDABOMB said:

In hindsight - Nagy was probably a pretty good head coach. He made playoffs twice in his 4 year run with Trubisky who was clearly not that good. 
 

If you have him Caleb I think he would have crushed it. 

Relative to what came before and after, yeah, Nagy looks a lot better by comparison. I still wouldn't consider him to be good. He had a great 1st season, but defenses adjusted to his offense, and he couldn't adjust after that, for 3 more years.

He really just rode the coat tails of an elite defense throughout his tenure up until the very end when everyone got old and stopped caring.

Nagy's career probably would have ended up very similar to Zach Taylor in CIN with Caleb, and I don't think Taylor is a very good HC. In 2018, they probably make the Superbowl with Caleb, and then, who knows what happens after that. The luck of the draw..

 

[adam]

1. JAX 2-10 
2. LVR 2-10
3. NYG 2-10
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4. NE 3-10 BYE > 3-10
5. CAR 3-9 PHI > 3-10
6. NYJ 3-9 MIA > 3-10
7. TEN 3-9 JAX > 4-9
8 CLE 3-9 PIT > 3-10
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9. CIN 4-8 DAL > 5-8
10. NO 4-8 NYG > 5-8
11. CHI 4-8 SF > ?

The Bears currently have the 11th pick, 40th pick (CAR), and the 43rd pick.

There is a good chance both of the other 4-8 teams get a win this weekend, and TEN as well to move to 4-9. If the Bears win, they could drop to 13th. If they lose, there is a good chance they could slide to #9. 

Based on the remaining schedule, it is very unlikely that more than 2x of the 3-win teams win 2 games, so the Bears losing out would probably only get them to #7. Finishing 5-12, probably #9 or 10. 6-11? Probably #12.