EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — In the aftermath of the Bears’ preseason opener against the Carolina Panthers last week, Bears coach Matt Nagy chided reporters for turning rookie running back David Montgomery’s seven-yard touchdown run into more than it was.
“Yeah, it was good,” Nagy said last Saturday after reviewing the film of the game. “It was OK. You guys were blowing it up like it was some great run. It was just average. It was good. Jeez.”
No doubt, Montgomery’s touchdown run was glorified, magnified and overanalyzed — a byproduct of the new era of preseason football where starters sit and so little is defined that we’ll jump on any solid storyline and run from one end zone to the other with it.