(610 Sports) -- Matt Nagy made his way up the coaching ranks learning from Chiefs head coach Andy Reid. Nagy began as a coaching intern in 2008, when Reid was head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, working his way up to a coaching assistant and then an offensive quality control coach before Reid was fired, following a 4-12 season in 2012.
The Chiefs would hire Andy Reid the following season to be the team's head coach and Reid brought along Nagy, naming him the team's quarterback coach and later offensive coordinator. Nagy would eventually be hired away by the Chicago Bears, being named the Bears head coach in 2018, a position he's been in for the past three seasons. Needless to say, Nagy took with him much of what he had learned from Reid, especially on the offensive side of the ball.
Leading up to Super Bowl LV, Matt Nagy joined 'Fescoe in the Morning' to talk about Chiefs head coach Andy Reid and just how far his offense has evolved, even in just the past three seasons. Nagy chose to convey the evolution through a particularly funny story, involving a mid-season video call from his mentor.
"He FaceTimed me in the middle of the season," Nagy said, "and when I was with him, we always were using this whiteboard in his office. Typically you have like a red marker, a blue marker, a black marker, and a green, you've got four colors. We draw all of these plays up on the board, on the whiteboard, and I was real particular thinking you can't overlap these plays when you draw them on the board, you know, they can't be over the top of each other," Nagy continued.
"Well, coach is like, "no, no, no. You draw them on top of each other, that's why you have different colors."
"For so many years we just had four colors. Well, this year, he FaceTimes me in the middle of the season, and all of a sudden he shows me his whiteboard, but he shows me, he's really proud of all the colors that he has now, that he's graduated to."
"I'm telling you guys, there was like 17 different colored markers that he had on that ledge," Nagy exclaimed. "You know when you're a kid and you get those Crayola markers, paint markers, and you got lime, you got dark brown, you got the light blue, he had 17 of them. That just goes to show you where they're at with this offense right now and how much fun he's having, it just made me laugh a little bit but that's just a little behind the scenes on coach and how creative he is and what he's doing right now, especially down inside that 10-yard line. The stuff they are doing is just wild and so much fun to watch."