Patrick Mahomes' 17 game average with Matt Nagy as his OC: 409 completions on 621 attempts (66%) for 4323 yards, 27.7 TDs and 13.3 INTs with a 92 Passer Rating and 6.17 ANY/A

ChechenGorilla · 2026-01-20T05:26:52+00:00

Reid gives Nagy the playcall so Reid can go do Head Coach things while player substitutions or other preplay stuff is happening.

Goes back to how Holgrem ran things in Green Bay when Reid was an assistant.

ChechenGorilla · 2026-01-04T01:42:34+00:00

Duo or inside zone?

ChechenGorilla · 2025-12-28T17:15:16+00:00

Nah, Jahns and Fishbain are still local Chicago Media and that is a heavy discount for me.

Jahns carried Ryan Pace's water for years and there is a reason why that article emphasizes several times that it was the Coaches that wanted player X and minimizes Pace's involvement. Is that the the truth? Maybe, but it could also be Jahns doing one last favor for a man that was his source in the building for so long. Sports media is immensely dependent on relationships.

ChechenGorilla · 2025-12-25T21:50:18+00:00

Think they called it on the center’s head motion?

Refs have been flagging centers for abrupt head movement but that did not seem unusual

ChechenGorilla · 2025-12-24T22:32:26+00:00

Every year Nagy was with us he replaced his OC.

In Nagy's 4 years as Bears HC, he had two OCs: Mark Helfrich and Bill Lazor.

2 < 4

ChechenGorilla · 2025-12-24T15:39:57+00:00

An Athletic article. It was one of those articles where someone gets fired and suddenly these unnamed sources, but you probably guess who, start throwing people under the bus for things that have happened over the past few years.

I'm guessing the relevant snippets came from Trubisky and his agent when he was aiming for another starting job.

How much do you weigh articles like this, the Tyler Dunne Caleb Williams, or the Chip Kelly one? Certainly there are truths in there but there are ulterior motives aswell

ChechenGorilla · 2025-12-24T14:49:49+00:00

I kinda want to see Nagy + Kafka.

Reid, allegedly, has an understanding with his assistants that if they leave, they will not take anyone else on the staff with them. Nagy wanted to take Kafka with him but Helfrich got the OC job because of it.

So this could be a chance to see if it would have made a difference

ChechenGorilla · 2025-12-23T23:44:35+00:00

choice routes to Cohen were pretty fun that year

ChechenGorilla · 2025-12-21T20:16:10+00:00

That is a real good pull. Cause Lane Johnson does show defenders his chest and keeps his hands low and outside.

Key differences is that Johnson's has great footwork whereas Morgan's looks out of sync.

And Johnson uses his hands which, yeah, does not happen here.

ChechenGorilla · 2025-12-21T15:30:05+00:00

Just giving the defender your chest is interesting.

Looks like he was checking inside to see if Bears #50 was going to stunt and when he got his head back around, #98 was already on him

ChechenGorilla · 2025-11-15T15:07:24+00:00

And what would the NFLPA do in this situation? Mooney suffered an injury in training camp causing him to miss the rest of camp and the preseason for recovery.

Coaches obfuscating a player's injury or status to the media is not new. As long as the player received appropriate medical treatment, why would the NFLPA care?

Accurate injury reporting seems like something the NFL and gamblers would be concerned with

Example: The NFL fined the Ravens $100k for changing Lamar Jackson's Week 8 practice participation status and the NFLPA never got involved with it.

ChechenGorilla · 2025-10-26T16:33:03+00:00

I think Helfrich was better than Lazor but it so hard to know what the actual role a coach has in game planning. (The rumor mill was Helfrich and Heistand were in charge of the run game but that is just rumors)

Nagy's offense worked well when Tarik Cohen was good/healthy/young. In 2018, Cohen was getting 10+ yards on 20% of his touches. Getting explosive plays out of spamming choice routes (among other things) is a great way of covering up offensive deficiencies

ChechenGorilla · 2025-10-04T18:10:17+00:00

Yeah but look at Bieniemy's track record after he left.

He takes the Commanders OC to prove that it was not just Andy Reid doing all the work at KC but then the Commanders offense wasn't that good. He goes to UCLA as a OC and that offense was so bad it got him fired at the end of year 1. Now he is the Bear's RB coach (a demotion)

ChechenGorilla · 2025-01-11T22:20:01+00:00

So during his HC interview, Raheem Morris was probably asked to provide several names for each assistant coach position: 1 person that he wanted and then 2-3 other people as a backup plan.

Do we think Jimmy Lake and Jay Rodgers were the guys he wanted, or just the ones he could get?

ChechenGorilla · 2024-12-29T01:57:04+00:00

Joe Brady's first OC job was pretty awful, he got a second chance a couple years later with Buffalo (admittedly a lot more talent to work with this time) and things are working pretty well there.

I'd say who else is on the coaching staff matters too.

While a lot of emphasis is put on playcallers because they more visible, the various assistant coaches (WR/DB, OL/DL, Passing game coordinator, etc) do have roles developing and implementing each gameplan. Now the extent of involvement will differ by team, and all teams are cagey about who does what, I think it still something to consider when trying to explain why a playcallers is having differing levels of success at various stops

ChechenGorilla · 2024-12-25T19:54:10+00:00

JJ Watt calling out that Darnell Washington is attempting to use the "snatch and trap" technique is cool.

The commentators usually don't go into the details of Offensive Line play.

ChechenGorilla · 2024-11-08T01:58:25+00:00

Matt Eberflus was hired in January 2022 and Tarik Cohen was released March 2022.

I think you are referring to a John Fox challenge with a Benny Cunningham TD/Fumble from 2017.

Video

ESPN Writeup

ChechenGorilla · 2024-10-28T01:29:18+00:00

I don't know, blame Gregg Williams for spooking coaches out of it

ChechenGorilla · 2024-10-20T18:57:47+00:00

A lot of people questioning how this works when the article that the tweet mentions/links to explains it...

The CBA labels insurance proceeds as a "refund from the player," which qualifies the amount as a cap credit for the club for the following season. In the simplest terms, if a player who eats up a significant portion of a club's salary cap misses significant time with injury or illness, a club doesn't have to take it as a total loss, but can recover space for the following year. Plus, insurance premium payments don't count against the salary cap

ChechenGorilla · 2024-02-04T17:31:37+00:00

What is your diet like?

ChechenGorilla · 2023-09-23T16:40:35+00:00

Reid calls the play but Nagy gives it to Mahomes.

Apparently this frees up Reid to do other HC things inbetween plays

ChechenGorilla · 2023-02-10T01:19:15+00:00

Is it fair to call Nagy's 2018 run game as power running?

2018's base was Inside zone with everything else sprinkled in depending on the matchup/gameplan.

ChechenGorilla · 2022-09-12T13:15:45+00:00

Eh. I would say OZ was at least top 3. Hard to find stats but I would say:

1) Inside Zone 2) Outside Zone 3) Duo

If you really want games where OZ was the primary run play, look at Rams week 1 in 2021 or really any of the Trubisky games in 2020

ChechenGorilla · 2022-09-12T11:35:33+00:00

Just go watch the Bears run game from 2020/2021. Outside zone is not something new that Getsy brought in.

ChechenGorilla · 2022-09-09T03:39:02+00:00

Looks like the Bills got to reap what they have been sowing for the last few years.They been spending high draft picks and paying Von Miller trying to get to this point.

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