Chicago Bears: Is ‘Mad Matt Nagy’ a good or bad thing?

Monday night saw Chicago Bears head coach Matt Nagy a tad angry on camera, yelling at his quarterback Mitchell Trubisky.

Chicago Bears head coach Matt Nagy has gotten some of the blame from Bears’ fans on social media for the slow start on offense this season. Mitchell Trubisky has gotten the rest of it, and it’s a lot of the blame.

During the Bears’ game last Monday night, Matt Nagy was caught on camera saying something to Mitch Trubisky that has been debated throughout “Bears Twitter”. It has been anywhere from telling Mitch to shut up or telling Mitch to man up explicitly.

We might never know what he actually said but when asked about the video, Matt Nagy said “I have a heated side to me, and that’s OK. Mitch does, too. It’s because we care.” When it was brought up to Mitch Trubisky he said “I love to see passion out of my head coach”.

Matt Nagy has stuck up for his team since the beginning of his coaching career in Chicago, but we haven’t seen anything like this come out until now. There is no idea what goes on behind closed doors with Matt Nagy and Mitch Trubisky but if they’re always fighting, that isn’t good.

Passion is a great thing, so is being competitive. Those two qualities win championships. Matt Nagy and Mitchell Trubisky need to figure out their own ways to get the best out of each other. If it takes Matt Nagy getting mad at Mitch Trubisky to get him to throw 3 touchdowns in a game, then have him get mad every game, but if they are at each others throats behind closed doors, they have to figure something out.

Is the frustration from the way the offense has stalled this year? Not blaming either guy but with Mitch Trubisky, there needs to be different play calling because so far, Matt Nagy has not set up his QB to succeed.

Mitch Trubisky needs plays that allows him to move around in the pocket and use his legs. It is still early in his young career but Mitch Trubisky, as of right now, isn’t a QB that can sit in the pocket and destroy defenses with his arm. The hope is for him to turn into that QB but right now he isn’t, let him learn that side of the game as time goes on, don’t force it.

Matt Nagy needs to open up Trubisky’s two-dimensional game and let him use his legs more often like he did last year. Nagy’s frustration has to come back to him in some way. At the end of the day, Nagy is calling the plays, not Trubisky, Mitch is just following his coaches orders.

Unless Matt Nagy doesn’t believe in Mitchell Trubisky or there is something going on behind the scenes that the world doesn’t know about, it’s time to open up the playbook like they did last year and take off the “training wheels” Nagy has put back on Trubisky.

Opening up the playbook and spreading the ball around should turn things around for Mitch Trubisky and his offense, and help them start scoring, something they’ve had trouble with in the early season.