It wasn’t ‘Black Monday’ at Halas Hall, just another gray day

No one got fired Monday at Halas Hall. The gray that hovered over the building was just clouds.

The same clouds figure to follow the Bears through a final four-game stretch that, while technically featuring a team one game out of the last NFC playoff spot, will be nothing but a joyless slog.

One day after the Bears lost a game they led by 10 points with 140 seconds to play — they had a 96% chance of winning before the first of the Lions’ last two touchdowns — coach Matt Nagy was left to answer questions about his future.

Yes, Nagy said, he’s in constant communication with chairman George McCaskey, president Ted Phillips and general manager Ryan Pace.

Yes, he said, he feels support from management.

No, he said, he hasn’t talked about his job status with any of them.

‘‘We haven’t had any of those discussions,’’ Nagy said. ‘‘Again, for me — and I said it to y’all [Sunday] night — my job is to make sure that I’m taking care of these players and this team and anything else. When that time comes, we have those discussions.

‘‘But we have four games left, and I just appreciate where our guys are at. I appreciate where our coaches are at — the meetings that we had this morning, just talking through where we’re at and how we have to get this thing fixed.’’

The Bears never have fired a coach during the season. That streak remained alive Monday, though neither Pace nor McCaskey broke his silence with a word of public support for Nagy.

Pace, whose own future is tenuous after one winning season in almost six years, gave his last on-the-record interview with anyone but the team’s official pregame show Sept. 7. Since speaking on New Year’s Eve last year, McCaskey has done one news conference — on Sept. 10.

That left Nagy — the one with no control over his job status — to answer questions about just that. And as he has since the Bears’ embarrassing loss Nov. 29 to the Packers, Nagy indicated he was focused on trying to do his job and end the Bears’ losing streak, which now stands at six games.

‘‘I know it sounds monotonous; trust me, I understand it,’’ Nagy said. ‘‘I know it’s frustrating for all of us, and it just seems like the same thing over and over. We know that, so we’ve got to get that win.’’

If it feels monotonous now, just wait.

Before Sunday, the Bears had a 25.5% chance to make the playoffs, according to Football Outsiders. By Monday, that number had dropped to 13.5%. It feels closer to zero, however, for a 5-7 team that hasn’t won since Oct. 18.

A four-game winning streak seems laughable at this point. And even if the Bears pulled it off, a faction of fans would be furious. Each loss improves the Bears’ draft status in 2021.

The most interesting part of the Bears’ remaining schedule is the karmic curiosity of their remaining opponents.

Each ‘‘wow’’ play Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson makes Sunday at Soldier Field will remind Bears fans of Pace picking Mitch Trubisky over Patrick Mahomes and Watson in the 2017 draft. The Bears then will visit the Vikings before heading into the definition of a no-win situation: a road game against the 1-11 Jaguars and starting quarterback Mike Glennon, another expensive Pace mistake.

The Bears will close the season at home against the Packers, who could have beaten them by 50 on Nov. 29 had they wanted to.

Only after that game, it seems, will McCaskey offer clarity about Nagy’s and Pace’s jobs. Until then, he’ll choose to be as murky as the clouds following the Bears from one game to the next.