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When Matt Nagy was an intern for the Eagles, they tried him at QB before the league stepped in and made a rule about intern stashing.
On a recent episode of Jason (and Travis) Kelce’s ‘New Heights Show,’ the brothers spoke to Chiefs OC Matt Nagy, who explained just how close he was to being an Eagles’ quarterback, and why the possibility led to a new NFL rule about intern stashing.
Nagy explained that he was an intern in Philly at the beginning of his career, and with the team’s quarterbacks dealing with injuries, he even got out on the field for a practice.
“I got one day in the sun. They called me up — I was an intern at the time, and now I think they have a rule for it. You see the interns that come to practices in training camp, and they sit in the meetings, and they follow you and all, that was me in 2008, 2009, and my second year, I was there just helping out coaching.”
Current Chiefs GM Brett Veach was in Philly at the time, and Veach and Nagy played together in college, so Veach called Nagy and told him to go talk to head coach Andy Reid.
“And then Coach [Andy Reid] goes, ‘Do you have an agent? Are you in shape? And, do you know the playbook?.’ and I was like, ‘Yes, yes, and yes.’ And, I really didn’t know the playbook, and I wasn’t in shape, but I ended up getting to have one day in practice.”
After Nagy got his opportunity, they nixed the idea and told him he couldn’t play, with the NFL making a formal rule about not being able to use interns as players — they realized it was a good way to circumvent the roster limit rules.
The Chiefs’ current OC probably wouldn’t have taken the starting job from Michael Vick anyway, but it’s funny that he was given a random chance to try.
