After Thursday night’s dispiriting loss to the Packers, Matt Nagy, the Bears’ head coach and play caller, said his team needed to run the ball more.



“A few things to that question,” he said Friday. “The one would be later in the game, fourth quarter-ish, there’s times where we could have probably popped a run in there, somewhere.



“The other thing, too, you guys gotta hang with me on some of these. We have some RPOs. So, when I’m calling runs and a throw is made, you guys think a pass is called. And there’s runs that are being called. If you guys can give me that, then I’ll help you guys out.”



The lack of any run game in the 10-3 loss was one of the many criticisms aimed at the 2018 coach of the year. He takes some blame here — he could have called more runs. But he’s also claiming he did call more than the box score shows, and the quarterback held on to the ball to pass because of...