NFL Honors Predictions: Can anybody catch Aaron Donald?
By Erik Lambert
Coach of the Year: Matt Nagy (Chicago Bears)
The Bears were a team completely lost amidst their own devastation. After squeezing all the juice possible out of Brian Urlacher and that veteran defense, things finally fell apart in 2013. The team hasn’t had a winning record in six years and hasn’t made the playoffs in eight. Matt Nagy is on the cusp of ending both of those streaks with his team being 8-4. The job he’s done with the Bears offense alone deserves maximum praise, already scoring 80 more points this year than they did in all of 2017. Nobody expected them to be atop the NFC North. Yet here they are.
Closest threat – Bill O’Brien of the Houston Texans. O’Brien looked like he might be getting in line to get fired when the year began. Now he might be presiding over the great in-season turnaround in NFL history. The Texans began the year 0-3 and looked utterly lost. All of sudden one win turned into two, two turned into four and the team has somehow strung nine-straight victories together and are looking like a premium threat in the AFC.