In all fairness to the Bears’ current power structure, here are two things about Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace that we believe to be true:
Nagy is a creative coach with a deep Rolodex of play calls. He seems to legitimately care about his players and did all he could for Mitch Trubisky. It is possible, but not likely, that Trubisky has some hidden gear that will reveal itself with a new team in free agency. He took a pair of teams that were middling and flawed to the playoffs.
Similarly, Pace will always be doomed by his quarterback selection in the 2017 draft but, unlike other general managers who have made similarly horrendous quarterback decisions and doubled down on them via equally horrendous second contracts, Pace hit the escape hatch and desperately clawed for another option.