Report: Bears players, coaches didn’t believe Matt Nagy after he denied rumor of firing
The Bears were a hot topic on Thanksgiving, which had nothing to do with their game against the winless Lions and everything to do with the future of head coach Matt Nagy.
Before Chicago’s 16-14 victory over Detroit on Thanksgiving, FOX Sports NFL insider Jay Glazer revealed that when Nagy denied rumors of his firing earlier this week, players and coaches had a hard time believing him.
“Matt Nagy, he went and he addressed the players and coaches, but the way did it was almost in like a solemn way,” Glazer said on FOX’s NFL pregame show, via NBC Sports Chicago. “So even afterwards, he said it’s not true, players and coaches were like, ‘Hey Matt, it’s been great.’”
Glazer went on to explain what happened when Bears chairman George McCaskey addressed the team on Wednesday after the dysfunction at Halas Hall reached a boiling point. McCaskey denied the report of his firing after the Lions game, but he wouldn’t rule out a firing “at some point,” which isn’t exactly surprising.
“So it got to the point where the owner George McCaskey, yesterday, came into the team meeting, addressed the entire team and said ‘Absolutely not true, he’s not been informed that he’s getting fired after this game. We’re not saying he won’t get fired at some point here,’” Glazer said. “But they told the entire team that report, unequivocally, is not true.”
Nagy might’ve saved himself from things hitting rock bottom avoiding a loss to the winless Lions, but this is going to continue to be a hot topic of conversation headed into the final six weeks of the regular season.
With games against the Cardinals, Packers and Vikings on deck, Nagy is far from out of the woods yet. And it’s hard to imagine that, should things get ugly again, Bears ownership wouldn’t fire a head coach midseason for the first time in their 101-year history.
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