It's no secret that the Chicago Bears‘ offense has been… lackluster, to say the least. In particular, the Chicago Bears boast the worst passing attack in the NFL. Chicago's 173.8 passing yards per game rank dead last in the league. That figure stands even amid a three-game stretch that's seen the team record 262.7 passing yards per game while Andy Dalton has stepped up in place of the injured Justin Fields.
Bears radio host Bill Zimmermann put the Bears' pedestrian passing attack into perspective, and it's quite frankly embarrassing how unproductive Matt Nagy's offense has been in 2021.
Matt Nagy's passing offense is averaging 173.8 yards per game, good for last in the NFL.
By comparison, Sid Luckman from 1943 to 1947 averaged 189.5 passing yards per game.
So Matt Nagy's passing offense is literally less efficient than the #Bears passing offense in the 1940s.
— Bill Zimmerman (@ZimmermanSXM) December 7, 2021
The Bears in the 1940s, during what was not nearly as pass-heavy an era as we are currently in, averaged 189.5 passing yards per game with Sid Luckman under center. The team 80 years ago played an 11-game season. Luckman threw 229 passes in 1946, for an average of 20.8 pass attempts per game. This season, through the team's first 12 games, Bears quarterbacks have thrown 351 passes, which is an average of 29.3 pass attempts per game. So, the Bears are throwing, on average, about nine more passes per game this year than they were in 1946, but recording about 15 fewer yards per game.
Now that we're done with the math, we can discuss just how terrible that is. Matt Nagy has gotten next to nothing out of his quarterbacks this season, a group that has practically made once-star wide receiver Allen Robinson an afterthought. If there's any statistic that suggests Matt Nagy is out of his element in coaching a football team, it's this one.
In a pass-first league, a team that isn't capable of throwing the football is bound for failure, and that's been exactly what we've seen from this Bears team. Nagy needs to get with the time, and at least figure out an offensive game plan that would be viable in the modern era of football, not one that would barely suffice 80 years ago.
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