As the Bears were in the middle of preparing for Thursday’s game against the Detroit Lions, Patch.com reporter Mark Konkol, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2011 while at the Chicago Sun-Times, published a report that Nagy had been informed the game would be his last as Bears coach.

He said he had not yet spoken to Bears Chairman George McCaskey, President and CEO Ted Phillips or general manager Ryan Pace this week and hadn’t been told he would be fired.

“That (report) is not accurate,” Nagy said.

Konkol’s tweet read: “Matt Nagy will coach his last @ChicagoBears game on Thanksgiving in Detroit, a top source tells Patch.”.

That much has yet to be refuted by the Bears, but the story also said Nagy was informed Monday that Thursday would be his last game as coach, something Nagy later said was not accurate.

Nagy said Tuesday he didn’t hear the chant and complimented the politeness of some of the school’s players he interacted with at the game.

“When I’m in the role I’m in, you have to be able to understand where people are coming from and how they react or don’t react,” Nagy said.

Tabor met with reporters first, at his regularly scheduled time, and said he did not know about the report.

Tabor said he had not spoken to Nagy about his job status nor had Nagy addressed the team about anything related to that.

Tabor closed his 10-minute question-and-answer session with his endorsement for Nagy.

After refuting the Patch.com report, Nagy sidestepped several questions about whether McCaskey, Phillips or Pace have told him he will coach through the end of the season.

Nagy didn’t have meetings with his bosses this week because of the short week, but he said they likely would talk after they get through the Thursday game.

Nagy said he hadn’t addressed his team about the report, noting a packed Tuesday morning schedule with installs and walk-throughs.

Nagy also emphasized that he couldn’t let the report interfere with his preparations for the game.

“I’ve been in the locker room before a game when a very well known national insider announced our coach was not going to be back,” Lazor said.

Robinson said he didn’t give any input that led to that tweet, which put him “in a very vulnerable situation” since people know of his connection to Schultz.

Robinson said wouldn’t need to hide behind someone else to say something he felt

“Everything that we had from a podcast standpoint, a relationship standpoint, had been based on covering basketball and based on talking about basketball,” Robinson said

“We all have our own decisions as to how we do things,” Nagy said