Win ugly or lose pretty?
With all due respect to Nick Foles, it’s a flawed option. These Bears are unlikely to lose pretty very often — not with this defense. If Foles and the Bears offense are pretty or even just reasonably attractive — not 50 points, but 27 to 31 — the Bears usually will win.
And that’s the point of the anxiety over Matt Nagy’s struggling offense with a first-place team that has the second-best record in the NFC. It’s not just the sustainability of winning one-score games. It’s that the Bears are potentially wasting yet another glorious era of defense — and not with a revolving door of offensive coordinators, but with a hand-picked offensive-minded head coach hired to make the offense the star of the show.