Former Chicago Bears head coach Matt Nagy is quickly seeing his stock rise again after proving to be inconsistent during his first stint as a head coach in the National Football League.
After being fired as the Bears’ head coach last year, Nagy returned to the comfort of the Kansas City Chiefs organization where his friend, Andy Reid, threw him a lifeline by naming him the Chiefs’ quarterbacks coach.
Mind you, the Chiefs’ quarterback is perennial MVP candidate Patrick Mahomes so to say that Nagy’s role as Chiefs’ quarterback coach was a cushion job would be an understatement.
Nevertheless, Nagy now has the Super Bowl ring that evaded him in 2018 when the Bears lost to the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Wild Card round. The Chiefs winning the Super Bowl has allowed Bears fans to see a new version of Nagy.
The Chicago Bears didn’t get the most out of Matt Nagy during his tenure.
In short, Nagy was living his best life.
This does not appear to be the end of Nagy’s redemption arc either. Current Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy appears to be in line to name the next offensive coordinator of Washington Commanders and that puts Nagy in a firm position for promotion this offseason.
We could be an Andy Reid retirement away from seeing Nagy’s second stint as an NFL head coach. Though, this time, Nagy will have the quarterback in Mahomes and tight end in Travis Kelce that would allow for him to perfectly run his system.
Mahomes has already gone to great lengths to speak about the connection that he has with Nagy and that may be the reason why he is destined to be the eventual successor to Reid.
The connection between Nagy and Mahomes was first formed during the 2017 NFL draft process when the quarterback revealed he received some assistance from the former Bears’ head coach in regard to his pre-draft visit with the Chiefs.
Nagy was broken after his first season as the Bears’ head coach in 2018 and was never able to re-establish his footing.
It seems that he is on track to get another head coaching stint relatively soon and this time, he won’t have to worry about his offense scoring more than 17 points in order to advance in the NFL Playoffs.