Including the playoffs, the Bears have scored 20 or fewer points in 29 of Nagy’s 60 games as coach.
Matt Nagy shot down the notion that the Bears have fired him as head coach effective after the upcoming Thanksgiving game against the Lions. A report from suburban news website Patch.com stirred a frenzy Tuesday morning with a report that Bears chairman George McCaskey had already informed Nagy that he would be fired after the Lions game. “That is not accurate,” Nagy said Tuesday. In more than a century of ownership, the family has never fired a head coach during a season. Nagy would not answer repeated questions about whether he is assured of coaching the rest of the season. Nagy goes into the Lions game with a 31-27 record, but he is 19-23 over the last three seasons. The team sits 3-7 and the offense — Nagy’s supposed specialty — is 29th in scoring (16.3 points per game),31st in yards per play (4.
