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Matt Nagy, what can be said about this guy? He is by far the most polarizing candidate in this cycle, and he is probably more polarizing than anybody in the last two cycles as well. If you ever end up in the same room as two Titans fans, one pro-Nagy and the other anti-Nagy, good luck trying to get them to find a middle ground, because both sides are convinced, and they are not going to let up.
There’s no such thing as a person who is in the middle of hating and loving Matt Nagy; everyone either loves Nagy and thinks he’s the next head coach redemption story, or he’s never going to learn his lesson, and his tenure would kill Borgonzi’s tenure alongside Chad Brinker’s. For these reasons, he is probably one of the most interesting coaching candidates I’ll cover during this cycle.
Now, this leads to the question: how do I feel about Matt Nagy as a head coaching candidate? Well, I’m gonna tell you eventually, but for now, we need to get into the details of Nagy’s profile. So, without any further interruption, this is the head coaching profile of the current Chiefs offensive coordinator, Matt Nagy.
Before talking about his positives and negatives, it is necessary to look at the background of Nagy and how he got to this point. Before I go on, I need to clarify that this may be the weirdest path that I’ll cover in this series. Nagy’s coaching career started way back in the year 2001, when he was the quarterbacks coach at Manheim Central High School in Pennsylvania. He left this job after one year to take a spot in the same position, this time at Cedar Crest High School, also in Pennsylvania, and then he became an offensive coordinator at Palmyra High School from 2008-2009, and I think you can take a guess at where that school is.
Now, during these two years, Nagy was an intern for the Philadelphia Eagles during his time as coordinator for this high school, and, an interesting fact, on August 10, 2009, before the beginning of the preseason, backup QB Kevin Kolb got injured. The Eagles staff was a little spooked by this, and to make sure that Donovan McNabb and AJ Feely were protected, Andy Reid tried to get the NFL to let Nagy play in a preseason game since he wasn’t being paid as a coach, and, at first, the NFL actually allowed it and Nagy actually practiced for a day! The NFL eventually came to its senses and didn’t let Nagy play, but it’s still a very fun story.
Anyway, in 2o10, Matt Nagy decided to take a full-time job with the Eagles as a coaches’ assistant, and after a year in that position, he was promoted to offensive quality control coach, where he would stay for 2011 and 2012.
After that, he joined Andy Reid’s Kansas City staff in 2013 as a QBs coach...
