It makes no sense that the Chicago Bears offence, led by Luke Getsy in his second season as offensive coordinator and Justin Fields in his third, has not improved.
However, Shaun King, a former NFL quarterback and football coach, believes that a detail regarding Getsy that was missed may have added to the problems.
Surprisingly, during a Friday afternoon discussion about Fields with Bernstein and Holmes Show of 670 The Score, King proposed that the reason for Getsy’s seeming lack of progress as a play-caller is a literal lack of vision—he finds it difficult to watch the game from the sidelines.
Getsy has called every game from the sidelines during his two years in Chicago, and those campaigns have shown virtually little improvement.
So why not give it a shot and call plays from the booth, as many coordinators in the league already do? Maybe Getsy has his sights set on more important matters, as King implies.
“This is the situation with these coordinators, and I’m not sure if the general public is aware of it,” King clarified. “Coordinators who want to be head coaches always want to be on the sidelines because they believe it presents them in a favourable light. .. At USF, where King coached quarterbacks and running backs from 2016 to 2019, I had a circumstance where we had a guy who, from the sidelines, just couldn’t see it. He wouldn’t enter the booth, though, because he wanted to be a head coach.
It’s a bit late to see how things may turn out if Getsy had decided to be the eye in the sky rather than the feet on the ground at this time. If we’re being really honest, this is probably not even the tale that can be drawn from this.
King’s idea about Getsy isn’t exactly ground shattering, considering the amount of talk about him possibly landing a head coaching position prior to his Bears contract. However, using that perspective to reexamine Getsy’s time with the Bears would make sense.
Just take into account his incessant preaching that the Bears offense’s primary issue is “execution,” which regularly echoes head coach Matt Eberflus’ refrains as he attempts to keep his job late in the season.
Had he led Fields and Chicago’s offence to superstardom, this less-than-successful tenure as Bears offensive coordinator might have put a stop to what could have been an elevation to head coach.
