On Friday afternoon, the Kansas City Chiefs introduced the return of Matt Nagy to the teaching workers, bringing him again as each a senior offensive assistant and quarterbacks coach. The group made the announcement via its official Twitter account.
Nagy, 43, spent his faculty years as quarterback for the College of Delaware — the place he performed alongside future Chiefs basic supervisor Brett Veach — however did not earn an NFL contract. Following a seven-year profession with a number of Enviornment Soccer League groups, he was employed as a training intern with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2008 — the identical yr Veach moved up from being an Eagles intern to a training assistant. In Philadelphia, he finally grew to become an offensive high quality management assistant earlier than head coach Andy Reid named him quarterbacks coach on his first-year workers with the Chiefs in 2013.
Nagy served in that place by means of 2015, moving up to offensive coordinator after Doug Pederson gave up the job to turn into the Eagles’ head coach. In 2016, Nagy shared the place with Brad Childress — however when Childress was promoted to turn into the assistant head coach in 2017, Nagy took sole possession of the job.
With 5 regular-season video games remaining in that season, Reid publicly abdicated his play-calling responsibilities, giving Nagy full management of the offense. The Chiefs went 1-4 to shut the season earlier than the Tennessee Titans defeated them 22-21 in the Wild Card round. The Kansas Metropolis offense failed to attain within the second half of that recreation — prompting hypothesis that Reid had taken over play-calling from his offensive coordinator — however Nagy later said he had called every second-half play, calling it “a failure in my guide.”
Regardless of this, the Chicago Bears hired Nagy to become their head coach before the 2018 season. With Nagy’s departure, Eric Bieniemy grew to become the Chiefs’ offensive coordinator — and on Thursday, news that the Chiefs were retaining Bieniemy for a fifth season as coordinator surfaced. After Mike Kafka went to the New York Giants to become their offensive coordinator, the Chiefs’ quarterbacks coach place was open; Nagy now fills it.
Throughout his first yr as Bears head coach, Nagy earned Related Press NFL Coach of the Yr honors, main the Bears to a 12-4 file and their first playoff look since 2010. However since then, the Bears have by no means performed above 0.500 — though they did make the Wild Card spherical of the 2020 postseason. On January 10 — following a 6-11 season — the Bears fired each Nagy and basic supervisor Ryan Tempo.
Nagy returns to Kansas Metropolis as the plain frontrunner for promotion to offensive coordinator in 2023 — that’s, if Bieniemy lastly lands that elusive first crack at changing into an NFL head coach.
