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Football coach who was hired as the head coach of the Chicago Bears in 2018 and went on to win NFL Coach of the Year in his first season with the team. He was previously an offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Kansas City Chiefs as well as an assistant coach for the Philadelphia Eagles.

He played football at Manheim Central High School in Manheim, Pennsylvania and the University of Delaware. He began his coaching career as the quarterbacks coach at Cedar Crest High School in 2002.

He played quarterback in the Arena Football League and led the Columbus Destroyers to an appearance in ArenaBowl XXI.

He married a woman named Stacey, with whom he has sons named Brayden, Tate, Jaxon and Jett.

He replaced John Fox as the head coach of the Chicago Bears.

Matthew Nagy was born on April 24, 1978 in Dunellen, New Jersey, and lived in Piscataway as a toddler. His parents, Gail Stouch and Bill Nagy, divorced when he was three years old, after which Matt moved with Stouch from Piscataway to Manheim, Pennsylvania. Growing up, Nagy participated in various sports like football, with teammates describing him as being very competitive; close friend and football teammate Eric Zeigler quipped he “couldn’t imagine how someone cared that much, even it was about a basketball game on his driveway.”

Matthew Nagy (/ˈ n ɛ ɡ i / NEH -ghee or /ˈ n æ ɡ i / NAG -ee) (born April 24, 1978) is an American football coach and former arena football quarterback who is currently the head coach for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL).

In spite of his parents’ divorce, Nagy remained close with both. His father Bill is a former defensive line coach for New Jersey high schools, winning a state championship with Elizabeth High School in 1980. After his coaching career, he was a businessman for various ventures before becoming a teacher in 2009, teaching at schools in the areas where Matt was coaching at the time.

He played high school football and basketball for Manheim Central High School in Pennsylvania, becoming the starting quarterback in the former during his junior year. In 1994, he led the Barons to the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) Class AAA playoffs, where they reached the semifinals against the Berwick Bulldogs. Entering the game, Manheim Central was on a 26-game winning streak, and was ranked No. 1 in Class AAA and No. 17 in USA Today’s national rankings. While the Barons primarily used the veer running offense, head coach Mike Williams elected to switch to a pass-heavy system for the Berwick game to surprise the Bulldogs. Nagy completed 20 of 28 passes for 307 yards and two touchdowns in the semifinal, but threw an interception with 28 seconds remaining to seal a 37–30 loss.

In 1995, Nagy passed for 1,928 yards and 21 touchdowns, and ran for 358 yards and six touchdowns. Manheim Central went 13–0 with over 5,500 total offensive yards and averaged 48.3 points per game in their final seven matches. However, the Barons lost to Berwick in the semifinal for the second straight season, with Nagy once again being intercepted late in the game to clinch an 18–17 defeat. He ended his senior year by being named Lancaster County Most Valuable Player.

After redshirting his freshman year, Nagy served as Ginn’s backup in 1997. When Ginn hurt his shoulder in the first round of the I-AA playoffs, Nagy replaced him as starter. Taking on Georgia Southern in the quarterfinal, Nagy completed 9 of 15 passes for 125 yards as the Blue Hens won 16–7. In the semifinal against McNeese State, he threw two second-half touchdown passes but a last-second field goal pushed McNeese State to a 21–20 victory.

He played for the Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens from 1997 to 2000. While the Blue Hens traditionally used a run-heavy Wing T offense under head coach Tubby Raymond, Nagy and more talented receivers led to an increase in passing; in 2000, Delaware’s offense attempted at least 30 passes in eight of thirteen games. Teammates and future coaching colleagues of Nagy’s included Chiefs general manager Brett Veach and Bears assistant Brian Ginn, the latter being the starting quarterback prior to Nagy.

As a quarterback, he played college football for the University of Delaware from 1997 to 2000, where he set various school passing records. After failing to receive an NFL contract, he joined the Arena Football League (AFL), where he spent six seasons playing for the New York Dragons, Carolina Cobras, Georgia Force, and Columbus Destroyers.

Ginn and Nagy shared the starting job to open the 1998 campaign, but the former broke his leg in the third game of the year against West Chester and was unable to play for the remainder of the season. Nagy went on to set 11 school single-season passing records, including yards in a season (2,916) and yards in a game (556 against Connecticut), as he ended the year with 20 touchdown passes against 12 interceptions and a 157.36 passer rating, the second-best in the nation. He also helped wide receiver Eddie Conti break the NCAA record for receiving yards in a season with 1,712 on 98 receptions.

In 1999, Nagy became the permanent starter ahead of Ginn. Seven games into the season, Nagy suffered a high ankle sprain in a 26–19 loss to UMass, forcing him to miss time and snapping a 15-game starting streak. With Ginn, the Blue Hens won the next two games. Nagy made a limited return the following week against Rhode Island, entering the game during the third quarter, where he failed to complete each of his four pass attempts before he was substituted for Mike Medley in the final period. Ginn remained the starter for the season finale against Villanova. After Ginn was briefly knocked out of the game, Nagy filled in early in the fourth quarter and threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to Butter Pressley to put the Blue Hens up 45–24. However, Villanova scored 21 unanswered points to tie the game before winning 51–45 in overtime.

In his senior year in 2000, Nagy and the Blue Hens won all but one game to end the regular season ranked second in Division I-AA, while the offense averaged 42.6 points and 460 yards per game. Delaware opened the 2000 I-AA playoffs by blowing out Portland State 49–14, during which Nagy threw for 263 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception; the yards elevated Nagy’s season total to 2,981, surpassing the school record he set in 1998. A 47–22 victory over Lehigh in the quarterfinal followed as Nagy recorded 266 passing yards, enabling him to the first quarterback in Delaware history to break 3,000 passing yards in a season, and two touchdowns. The Blue Hens’ season came to an end in the semifinal when they lost to Georgia Southern 27–18. Nagy completed 16 of 38 attempts for 189 yards and an interception in his final college game. He ended the season with 3,436 passing yards, setting a school record that stood until Joe Flacco eclipsed the mark in 2007, and a program-best 29 touchdown throws. For his campaign, Nagy was named third-team I-AA All-American, becoming Delaware’s first All-American quarterback since Rich Gannon in 1986.

In 2001, Nagy returned to Manheim Central High School as quarterbacks coach. The following year, he was invited to serve the same position at Cedar Crest High School in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, where his wife, Stacey, was the girls’ track coach. In addition to working with the varsity team, Nagy was also the junior varsity football team’s head coach. He worked at Cedar Crest until 2003.

After not being selected in the 2001 NFL Draft, Nagy attracted interest from the New York Giants as a free agent, though their acquisition of Jesse Palmer ended that possibility. On September 11, he participated in a tryout with the Green Bay Packers, but was not signed. Later auditions with the Jacksonville Jaguars, Dallas Cowboys, and New York Jets — the third coming after beginning his arena football career in 2002 — and a phone conversation with Minnesota Vikings officials also failed to result in contracts.

Nagy married his high school sweetheart Stacey in 2002. The two have four sons. Before joining the Arena Football League, he was a teacher in the Manheim Central School District. After his playing career ended, Nagy worked at home construction company Keystone Custom Homes, receiving the position after Steve Saunders introduced him to Keystone executive Larry Wisdom. With Wisdom’s blessing, he left the business when he joined the Eagles full-time.

Nagy made his AFL debut in the 2002 season opener versus the Los Angeles Avengers when he replaced a struggling Danny Ragsdale in the fourth quarter; he completed three of eight passes for 68 yards and a touchdown to Steve Papin as New York lost 43–25. He was later named the starter for the Buffalo Destroyers game, where he was 27-of-37 for 300 yards and seven touchdowns en route to a Dragons 69–54 win. In the Detroit Fury match, Nagy was substituted out for Danny Kanell, who threw three touchdowns to lead the Dragons to a 44–37 win and subsequently became the starter. In June, Kanell’s struggles against the Orlando Predators prompted Nagy to return to action in the fourth quarter, where he threw a 12-yard touchdown to Jason Maxwell for his lone score in the 52–33 loss. Aaron Garcia, who was New York’s regular starting quarterback until he signed with the San Francisco 49ers in the offseason, returned to the team for the remainder of the 2002 season. Nagy started six games in his rookie year, ending with 1,242 passing yards, 27 touchdowns, and five interceptions.

On November 13, 2003, Nagy was traded to the Carolina Cobras in exchange for lineman Tim McGill. The Cobras, who went 0–16 in 2003, hired Gregory as offensive coordinator for the 2004 season. In the first game of the year against the Dallas Desperados, Nagy recorded 282 passing yards and seven total touchdowns (six passing, one rushing) as Carolina won 67–41 and snapped a 17-game losing streak. The opening victory was followed by a 54–53 win over the Columbus Destroyers when Nagy threw the game-winning touchdown to Damien Groce as time expired. However, the Cobras lost the next four games and head coach Ed Khayat was fired, leading to Gregory’s promotion. In the first game with Gregory as interim head coach, taking on the defending ArenaBowl champion Tampa Bay Storm, Carolina scored 24 unanswered points in the third quarter and Nagy had four touchdown passes as the Cobras won 54–43; it was the Cobras’ first home win since 2002.

During the offseason, he tore his left anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) during a flag football game in Lancaster, Pennsylvania that prevented him from playing the 2003 season. While rehabilitating his leg alongside trainer Steve Saunders, he also spent the year receiving his real estate license and working as a substitute PE teacher. When not on the Dragons’ active roster, Nagy was the team’s color commentator for radio broadcasts.

After becoming a free agent, Nagy visited the Philadelphia Soul with the hope of playing near home until they signed Tony Graziani. The Colorado Crush also offered him a contract, but he instead signed a one-year deal with the Georgia Force on October 27, 2004. Although he was the backup to newly-signed Jim Kubiak, Nagy felt Kubiak’s injury history – he had missed much of the 2003 season with a herniated disc – gave him the best chance to play. He also credited Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank, who had recently purchased the Force, for influencing his decision as the Force could “almost be like a minor-league team for the Falcons. […] It could be an opportunity for me to latch on with the Falcons.”

To open the 2005 playoffs, Nagy threw five touchdowns in a 62–49 victory over the Storm. He continued his postseason success as he had seven touchdown throws and a rushing score in the 60–58 triumph over the Predators to advance to ArenaBowl XIX. In the ArenaBowl against the Crush, Nagy completed 24 of 36 passes for 247 yards and four touchdowns along with a rushing touchdown, but Colorado’s Clay Rush made a 20-yard field goal as time ran out to win 51–48. Nagy finished the regular season converting 260 of 388 passes for 3,003 yards, 66 touchdowns, and ten interceptions, and was named second-team All-Arena.

Kubiak began the 2005 season as the starter and led the Force to a 4–1 start before suffering a season-ending left knee injury against the Austin Wranglers. Upon filling in, Nagy completed ten consecutive throws to open his stint, with the first being a six-yard touchdown to Troy Bergeron, as the Force won 66–63; he ended the game with 247 passing yards and seven touchdowns to be named Offensive Player of the Game. Head coach Doug Plank described Nagy’s relief duty as “probably the single biggest event for our team. To have a setback of that magnitude — losing your quarterback — and then having Matt come in and perform the way he did, that started the momentum for the remainder of the season.” With Nagy starting the next 12 games, the Force went 11–5 in the regular season.

On August 19, 2006, Nagy was traded to the Destroyers for lineman Mike Sutton in what the former explained was “the coaches in Georgia [wanting] to go in a different direction”. Incidentally, Kubiak was instrumental in the decision to trade Nagy, having ended his playing career after 2005 to become the Force’s Director of Player Personnel. Nagy ended his two-year tenure in Georgia as the team’s record holder in total passing yards (7,268), completions (632), and touchdowns (151).

In October prior to the 2006 season, Nagy convinced former Delaware teammate Jamin Elliott to join the Force. That year, Georgia regressed to an 8–8 regular season record as the team was plagued by disputes within the organization due to the disappointing campaign. When the AFL’s trade deadline neared, rumors surfaced that Nagy would be traded to the Philadelphia Soul for Tony Graziani, while the Las Vegas Gladiators contacted the Force for his services. Despite his club’s struggles, Nagy broke franchise single-season records in completions and attempts (372 for 527), passing yards (4,265), and touchdowns (85), and led the league in passer rating (125.5). The Force qualified for the playoffs and played the Dragons in the first round, where Nagy completed 28 of 39 of this throws for 362 yards and ten total touchdowns, nine of which came by passing, as Georgia won 72–69. A 62–27 second-round defeat courtesy of the Dallas Desperados knocked the Force out of the playoffs; although Nagy was 21 for 35 with 206 passing yards and four touchdowns, he was also intercepted twice.

The 2007 Destroyers opened the season 6–4 before losing five consecutive games. Needing a win over the Dragons to clinch the National Conference’s final playoff spot, Nagy recorded 256 passing yards and seven touchdowns to lead Columbus to a 74–43 victory and a playoff berth at 7–9. In the regular season, he threw for 3,561 yards and 75 touchdowns. In weeks fifteen and sixteen, he also attempted two extra point conversions, both of which failed: after throwing a touchdown against the Kansas City Brigade to put the Destroyers up 47–35 with 30 seconds left, Nagy missed the ensuing kick; against Philadelphia, with Columbus leading 53–41 early in the fourth quarter, he tried a drop kick to no success.

After interning with the Philadelphia Eagles during the 2008 NFL offseason, Nagy joined Palmyra Area High School in Palmyra, Pennsylvania as offensive coordinator. The Cougars went 5–5 in his first season. He stayed with the team through 2009, during which they recorded a 4–6 record, before departing for a full-time job in the NFL.

The AFL folded in late 2008 due to the Great Recession, ending Nagy’s playing career. In six seasons, he recorded over 18,000 passing yards, 374 touchdowns throws, 55 interceptions, and 22 rushing touchdowns.

For the 2008 season, head coach Doug Kay elected to have Nagy play and serve as the de facto offensive coordinator, but the Destroyers struggled mightily as they opened the year 1–4. Before the sixth game against Tampa Bay, Lary Kuharich was hired as offensive coordinator; under Kuharich, Columbus scored on their opening possession for the first time that season and eventually won 51–49 with Nagy’s six-touchdown day. The Destroyers finished the year 3–13, tied for the worst record in the league, and Kay was fired. Nagy completed a total of 358 passes (of 576 attempts) for 4,440 yards, 74 touchdowns, and eight interceptions.

For the 2008 season, head coach Doug Kay elected to have Nagy play and serve as the de facto offensive coordinator, but the Destroyers struggled mightily as they opened the year 1–4. Before the sixth game against Tampa Bay, Lary Kuharich was hired as offensive coordinator; under Kuharich, Columbus scored on their opening possession for the first time that season and eventually won 51–49 with Nagy’s six-touchdown day. The Destroyers finished the year 3–13, tied for the worst record in the league, and Kay was fired. Nagy completed a total of 358 passes (of 576 attempts) for 4,440 yards, 74 touchdowns, and eight interceptions.

After finishing his playing career, Nagy became an assistant coach with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2009, spending five seasons in various offensive positions under head coach Andy Reid. In 2013, when Reid joined the Kansas City Chiefs, Nagy followed him to become the quarterbacks coach, a role he served until he was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2016. Nagy was named the Bears’ head coach in 2018, leading the team to their first NFC North championship and playoff appearance since 2010 in his first year.

In Nagy’s first season as head coach, the Bears won the NFC North for the first time since 2010. After defeating the Green Bay Packers on December 16 to improve to 10–4, he became the second Bears rookie head coach in team history to win ten games, joining George Halas in 1920. He ended the regular season with two more wins, finishing his first year as a head coach with a 12–4 record; he and Paddy Driscoll (1956) are the only coaches in Bears history to have a winning record and qualify for the playoffs in their debut seasons. However, the Bears were defeated by Pederson and the Eagles in the Wild Card Round 16–15 after the game-winning field goal was blocked and hit the crossbar twice. In January 2019, Nagy received Coach of the Year honors from the Pro Football Writers Association and Associated Press. He was the first Bears coach to be given the AP award since Lovie Smith in 2005 and the fifth in team history.

After a 4–12 campaign in 2012, Reid was fired by the Eagles and moved to the Kansas City Chiefs, bringing Pederson and Nagy with him as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, respectively. In 2016, Pederson went back to the Eagles to become their head coach, and Nagy was promoted to co-offensive coordinator alongside spread game analyst Brad Childress; during games, Childress worked from a stadium skybox and Nagy on the sidelines. Although Reid called the plays, Nagy directly communicated with the quarterback.

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