The will be without their head coach when they welcome the to Soldier Field on Sunday.The Bears Saturday that Matt Nagy remains in the league's COVID-19 protocol and will Aaron Sanchez Jersey not coach the team's Week 8 game. He will be replaced as head coach by special teams coach Chris Tabor.Tabor began his NFL coaching career as an a sistant special teams coach for the Bears from 2008 to 2010. He was then the Kevin Pillar Jersey special teams coach for the from 2011 to 2017, before returning to Chicago to take over special teams in 2018. It's not the first time this season that a team will be forced to play a game without its head coach. Earlier this year, coach Kliff Kingsbury sat J.A. Happ Jersey out the team's game against the Cleveland Browns after testing positive for COVID-19. He was replaced as head coach by the combination of defensive coordinator Vance Joseph and special teams coach Jeff Rodgers. The also played a game without seven a sistant coaches. Nagy's game-day role has been the subject of Jaime Garcia Jersey intermittent controversy this season as he has repeatedly either refused to specify whether he or offensive coordinator Bill Lazor would call plays, or else refused to answer questions about the topic at all. There will be no such controversy on Sunday: Lazor will call Devon Travis Jersey the team's plays in Nagy's absence, as he reportedly has over the past several weeks.