Matt Nagy navigates one last turn of the quarterback carousel Sunday. None of them have been successful enough as he enters what could be his last game as Chicago Bears coach.

When Matt Nagy coaches the Chicago Bears successful their play finale Sunday astatine U.S. Bank Stadium, it volition beryllium 4 years to the time since general manager Ryan Pace introduced him astatine Halas Hall arsenic the team’s caller coach.

“Matt’s a proven leader,” Pace said past of Andy Reid’s erstwhile adjunct manager and coordinator with the Kansas City Chiefs. “He’s a winner. He’s intelligent. He’s innovative. He has beardown character. He has a large family, and helium shares the aforesaid passionateness for the crippled that I have.”

Some of those statements person proved to beryllium existent implicit the past 4 years. One of them, astir winning, has not been existent enough.

Nagy enters what is likely his past game arsenic Bears manager Sunday with a 34-30 record, positive 2 playoff losses.

No substance the result of the game, which has nary playoff implications for either team, the Bears volition decorativeness with a losing grounds for the archetypal clip successful his tenure. Nagy has had 1 winning play — the 12-4 tally to the NFC North rubric successful 2018 — and 2 8-8 seasons.

The mediocre results, successful ample portion due to the fact that of Nagy’s inability to tally a thriving discourtesy and boost his quarterbacks’ play, mean the Bears precise good could beryllium introducing a caller caput manager successful the weeks to come.

Nagy is intelligibly alert of that possibility.

He has been asked astir his aboriginal for much than six weeks, starting Thanksgiving week aft a Patch.com study amid a five-game losing streak said the Week 12 crippled against the Detroit Lions would beryllium his last. It continued this week erstwhile more chatter surfaced that helium already had been told helium would beryllium fired, which Nagy refuted.

“That’s a portion of this job,” Nagy said of the rumors. “When you’re successful a results-oriented business, you cognize that erstwhile you get into it. Part of wherefore you get to this constituent is you’re capable to grip situations similar this. … It’s conscionable a substance of making definite that you grip it the close mode and you’re unfastened and honest. I deliberation that’s what I’ve been this full clip and I deliberation the players recognize and respect that and that’s astir apt wherefore we’re playing the mode we’re playing close now.”

This week astatine Halas Hall came with 1 past twist of the backmost carousel.

Quarterback Justin Fields tested affirmative for COVID-19 and won’t commencement Sunday, marking the extremity of a bumpy rookie play successful which helium went 2-8 arsenic a starter.

Fields is 1 of 5 quarterbacks who person started implicit Nagy’s 66 games arsenic coach. Mitch Trubisky started 40 and won 25. Chase Daniel started 3 and won one. Nick Foles started 8 and won three. Andy Dalton, who volition commencement Sunday, started 5 and won three.

None has clicked good capable — oregon for agelong capable — nether Nagy to beryllium capable to accidental his guidance of them connected the tract has been a success.

Through 4 seasons, Nagy’s discourtesy ne'er ranked supra 21st successful yards per game, and aft the 2018 play it didn’t fertile supra 22nd successful points per game.

The quarterbacks had their moments.

Trubisky threw six touchdown passes against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers arsenic portion of the tally to the NFC North rubric successful 2018. Foles led a comeback from 16 points down for a triumph against the Atlanta Falcons erstwhile Nagy benched Trubisky successful 2020. Fields led the Bears to 21 fourth-quarter points against the Pittsburgh Steelers connected “Monday Night Football.”

But those successes were fleeting.

The part title successful 2018 was fueled successful ample portion by the Vic Fangio-led defense, and the Bears’ 16-15 playoff nonaccomplishment to the Philadelphia Eagles that play foreshadowed the violative troubles to travel nether Trubisky successful 2019.

After the Bears started 5-1 successful 2020, they mislaid the adjacent 4 nether Foles arsenic portion of a six-game losing streak earlier a Foles wounded pushed the Bears backmost to Trubisky.

This season, the Bears mislaid to the Steelers contempt the Fields-led comeback, and Fields started lone 3 of the last 8 games due to the fact that of injuries and COVID-19.

The clip retired disrupted immoderate accidental of Fields finishing the play connected a promising developmental arc, and his rookie show alternatively volition beryllium remembered for flashes of endowment but not dependable progress. To adhd to the uncertainty, players and coaches said it took clip for them to set to Fields aft Dalton had been the starter successful grooming campy and the archetypal 2 games.

The question remains unfastened if thing would person been antithetic if Nagy had named Fields the starter to statesman with, alternatively of aft Dalton was injured successful Week 2.

Despite a rocky play successful which Fields completed 58.9% of his passes for 1,870 yards with 7 touchdowns, 10 interceptions and 36 sacks, the backmost called Nagy a “great coach.”

“I cognize there’s been a batch of extracurricular speech oregon whatever, but arsenic acold arsenic I’m concerned, helium has coached maine to the champion of his quality and he’s a large idiosyncratic connected and disconnected the field,” Fields said Wednesday. “I’m conscionable blessed I got to acquisition this archetypal twelvemonth with him — each the players and each the coaches.”

That things didn’t get disfigured internally astatine the extremity of the past mates of seasons and that the Bears continued to bushed different atrocious teams — including the Seattle Seahawks and New York Giants the past 2 weeks — has been a recognition to the quality of Bears players and to Nagy’s leadership.

He guided the Bears done the unpredictable challenges of COVID-19 for 2 seasons, which included his ain bout with the microorganism in October.

But simply, those positives aren’t enough.

Nagy has been asked galore times implicit the years what went incorrect with his offense, but Wednesday helium was asked what has gone close this season.

He inactive led with the evident negatives earlier talking astir however processing players takes time.

“You look astatine wherever we’ve been astatine offensively and we cognize that we privation to beryllium capable to spot much points connected the board, right?” helium said. “Like we’ve talked this twelvemonth astir immoderate red-zone (problems). And astatine the aforesaid constituent successful clip (we person to) beryllium capable to make these players. When I look astatine what we’ve done present with these young players that we have, whether it’s a rookie this twelvemonth oregon whether it’s a feline that is successful his 3rd oregon 4th twelvemonth present with us, our coaches person done a bully occupation of being capable to bash that with these guys and physique that.

“Is the grounds wherever we privation it to beryllium this year? No. Absolutely not. We recognize that. There’s conscionable a batch of processing that goes connected and it does instrumentality immoderate clip with these guys erstwhile they’re younger and erstwhile you draught them and they go yours.”

Time successful Chicago, however, mightiness not beryllium thing Nagy has.