‘No good’ — Bears’ field-goal 0-fer frustrates coach Matt Nagy

In the middle of minicamp practice Tuesday, the Bears had each of their three kickers try a 42-yard field goal.

The first hit the right upright. The second went wide left and the third was wide right.

“They went back-to-back-to-back and all three missed,” coach Matt Nagy said. “And so they are being evaluated not just by you, not just by me, but by their teammates.”

And the 25 or so Bears alumni — including Mike Brown, Mike Adamle and others — who watched the first mandatory minicamp practice.

Chris Blewitt, Elliott Fry and Eddy Piñeiro’s performance left Nagy sounding rattled.

“I mean, that’s about as real as it gets,” Nagy said. “They were 0-for-3 out there. For today, we can’t have that. We are going to figure this thing out. But 0-for-3 today, no good.”

Not at all. As the Bears continue to eschew adding an experienced kicker, it will be telling to see whether they bring all three of theirs — combined regular-season games: zero — to training camp next month.

“For us as evaluators, if they all went 3-for-3 today, we wouldn’t be talking about it, right?” Nagy said. “But at the same time, what’s real is they didn’t. And that’s why we are talking about kickers in this situation, because we miss.

“We have to just keep trusting our evaluation of these three kickers. It’s not just one person, it’s all of us together. We talk it through and we figure it out. And we do everything we possibly can to make sure that in the end when we get to the very end, we have the right guy there.”

After Tuesday, it’s fair to wonder whether they do. Nagy practically winced when reporters asked what went through his head.

“Whatever went through your mind,” he said, “went through my mind.”

Nagy on Ditka

Nagy said Mike Ditka was the favorite person he talked to during the Bears100 Celebration Weekend.

“He’s always himself,” Nagy said. “He doesn’t try and be different for anybody, that’s stating the obvious.”

Nagy said that Ditka gave him a good piece of advice — albeit obvious — on Friday night.

“He was chewing his gum,” Nagy said. “He said, ‘You know, there’s really good football players and then there’s not so good players. Get rid of the not so good players.’

“And I was like waiting for a point. And then I started thinking about it, that’s pretty easy, you know. So that’s what I want to do.”

This and that

The Bears have five coaches helping this week as part of the NFL’s Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship: Aman Anand (Penn State), Reggie Garrett (Maine), Tony Gilbert (Central Florida), Jody Owens (Briar Cliff), and Roy Roundtree (Michigan).

• Linebacker Will Clarke and offensive linemen Jordan McCray and Corey Robinson tried out.