Top 10 Offensive Coordinator

It's usually best to keep the past in the past.

However, Pro Football Focus opened the review door by naming the 10 best offensive coordinators in football.

No. Bears coordinator Luke Getsy does not fit into this group, although he does probably deserve credit for bringing the offense back from last in the league after three weeks to as high as 22nd at their bye week and as high as 17th in scorinng after they were next to last prior to their game with New England. They did it with only one quality wide receiver and a patchwork offensive line.

This isn't the point, though. Their former head coach is.

PFF named Matt Nagy the eighth-best offensive coordinator in the game. PFF's Sam Monson must have decided to ignore four years of Chicago frustration based on ... what?

Nagy wasn't the play caller or the offensive coordinator last year when the Chiefs won the Super Bowl. Eric Bieniemy was offensive coordinator before leaving for Washington as Ron Rivera's OC, after being rejected yet again for head coaching jobs.

When Nagy left Kansas City for Chicago in 2018 he had just been coordinator for one of the great playoff disasters in NFL history. The Chiefs didn't score in the second half and lost 22-21 to Tennessee after leading 21-3 at halftime.

With the Bears, Nagy's offenses ranked 21st, 29th, 26th and 24th. Sure, he was saddled with Mitchell Trubisky at quarterback, then had Justin Fields as a rookie.

However, if Nagy is the eighth-best offensive coordinator in football shouldn't he be able to elevate the offense a little more than a ranking in the 20s?

He'll have no problem now inheriting Patrick Mahomes, which doesn't exactly seem like a challenge.

Of course, Nagy played a big part in Mahomes being able to play so well in his second season. That was as his quarterbacks coach, not the offensive coordinator.

Nagy was a good guy who seemed overmatched as head coach in Chicago and he might flourish in a secondary role as Andy Reid's top assistant. That is, until he takes over as head coach at the boss' ultimate retirement.

However, none of that says he is at this moment the eighth-best offensive coordinator, the nine-best or even a coordinator who deserves to be ranked in the top half of the league. His Bears offenses failed.

Nagy should have been ranked somewhere down around 22nd, 24th, right where he left off with the Bears.

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