I've been struggling with this too and I think it's clear they share the blame in some proportion. But I still think Mitch is the main problem. To be blunt, I think he's a dummy and I think Nagy is really struggling to design an offense around a guy who doesn't know where to go with the ball, can't read a defense, makes the wrong decisions on the read option, etc. When the stars align and you have a wide open WR streaking into the endzone, Mitch airmails it. You see a lot of single option plays where it's just designed to go to one guy with no other options. He's not calling those plays for no reason - he's calling them because he knows Mitch can't read the defense and throw it to the right guy when he has multiple options. Other teams know this and I think it just compounds the issue. The narrative that Nagy is just stubborn and would rather watch his offense repeatedly humiliate itself on national TV rather than call plays that suit Mitch's strengths seems lazy to me - I don't buy it. I put the blame 60-70% on Mitch for the offensive struggles this year. Out of qualified QB's, Mitch is 28th out of 32 in QB rating. He's 32nd out of 32 in yards per attempt. Despite being last among all QB's in yards per attempt, he's still only 20th in the league in completion percentage. He's 29th out of 32 in QBR. And this is with 4 games with a rating over 115! Think about how bad he's been in all the other games to end up where he is. He's not just below average, I think you could make a decent argument that he's the worst starting QB in the NFL. Where I do think Nagy horsefeathers up was not recognizing this going into the season. I think he deluded himself to thinking Mitch is going to take some big leap and he rolled out a gameplan week one that Mitch had 0% chance of being able to execute. Think about that game. Nagy comes in with a game plan calling for Mitch to throw it 50 times. The Packers defensive game plan was literally "Let Mitch play QB." They understood what Nagy didn't. With all that being said, I have no idea where they go from here. They were all in on Mitch and doubled down with the Mack trade. You have to hope for some miracle Tannehill-esque reclamation project. The future looks pretty grim for this team. While this all may be true.... Leno was a probowler in 2018, been below average this year Whitehair was a probowler in 2018, has been worse Daniels has failed to develop and has regressed RG is a mess. Though not going to blame anyone here. Massie was probably similar, if not slightly worse than 2018 when he was healthy. Miller still has mental errors, but may be slightly better. Burton/Shaheen were not healthy, but were not good when they played. Cohen was a probowler in 2018, but has the 2nd lowest YPC in NFL history with 60 catches (believe the broadcast said last night). Howard was traded because he wasn't a fit. Montgomery has basically been the exact same player, but running behind a lesser OL. If all but Robinson and maybe Miller are worse than they were last year, then can you just write off Trubisky as being bad? There's a common denominator. I don't think you can blame Mitch for the OL being this bad. Don't think you can blame him for Cohen either. But you can blame some of Mitch's struggles on the OL. Look at the whole team. The only two who I think got better were Trevathan and Fuller. Robinson and Miller stayed the course with Miller getting better as the season progressed, two new starters at HB and S but everyone got worse. 14 of the 20 starters regressed.
