Why won't Nagy discuss play-calling?

The 2017 Kansas City Chiefs won their first five games of the season, averaging 32.8 points a game.

Over the next six games, the Chiefs' offense inexplicably stuttered, averaging just 18.0 points as they dropped five of six, scoring just 9 points Week 10 and 10 in Week 11.

Already a three-time coach of the year, Andy Reid decided to cede his play-calling duties to Matt Nagy, his offensive coordinator, and in Nagy's first outing the Chiefs put up 31 points and more than 500 yards of offense.

With Nagy calling plays, the Chiefs went on to win their last four games and secured a wild-card spot while averaging 30 points a game. Ten days later, Nagy left Kansas City to become head coach of the Bears.

With Nagy's club currently struggling through a four-game losing streak, why wouldn't he try the same thing?

"There were a lot of things breaking down in the first half versus the Eagles," Nagy said the day after the Bears' loss at Philadelphia.

I wondered, relative to Nagy's play-calling and the focus that takes, would it be advantageous for him to give it up even temporarily to concentrate on all those things that were going wrong?

"I'll start off by saying we look at a lot of different things," Nagy responded. "Players, we look at us as coaches, we look at the plays that are being called. That's always the No. 1 thing after every single game, win lose or draw, that I start off with.

"It doesn't matter whether we score 6 touchdowns and we have a (heck) of a game, I'll always check myself and see where am I at in regards to this scheme and whether it works or not, was it there and also the rhythm.

"I've been a part of that. I've lived it. Where some of the best playcallers have been into a position where you try change. We're always looking at all avenues. To answer your question: it's not just the players, it is coaching."

I don't challenge the plays called by professionals because they know more about it than I do, but I couldn't find an answer to my actual question in that response, so I tried to clarify.

"Just to be clear, I'm not asking about yourplay-calling, I'm asking if not having to worry about that during the game would free you up to do other things that would benefit the ballclub?"

Nagy patiently replied, "That part of the question, to me, it falls into a rhythm. It's pretty natural, when you go three-and-out five straight times and you don't know your 'why' sometimes, that's the part to where you can say to yourselves, 'is this something where there needs to be a change, whether it's play-calling, whether it's schematically, whether it's position, etc.'

"But it can affect you at times if you're not getting into rhythm. I think just like it affects the players. Hopefully that's … I don't know if I'm answering exactly what you're looking for."

He wasn't, so I tried one last time, "I'm actually asking if you would be best served rather than focusing on calling plays by watching offensive-line play or watching your receivers …"

Before I could finish I was told, "No, I wouldn't."

Following his first NFL game as a playcaller back in 2017, Nagy told Terez Paylor of the Kansas City Star: "That's the best part about Coach Reid -- there's zero ego. He doesn't care. If he thinks it's going to work, let's go."

I can't say for certain Nagy's handing off the play-calling duties would help fix what's ailing the Bears, but it does seem highly unlikely he'd be the Bears' head coach today if Reid hadn't tried it with him.

I also have no idea whether Nagy's ego is an issue?

My gut is telling me he will get this fixed, but it is troubling how unwilling the Bears' head coach is to even consider something so obvious that's worked for him in the past, if for no other reason than to get a fresh perspective on where his club is at and what his options are to get them where he wants them to go.

• Hub Arkush, the executive editor of Pro Football Weekly, can be reached at harkush@profootballweekly.com or on Twitter @Hub_Arkush.