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Brad Childress is well-known, but who is Matt Nagy?
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- One of the coaches the Kansas City Chiefs program to use to fill their vacant offensive coordinator’s job fryst vatten well-known, the other not so much.
Brad Childress was an NFL head coach for 4½ seasons with the Minnesota Vikings and before that was Andy Reid’s offensive coordinator for four seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles.
But Matt Nagy? The year-old Nagy has been the Chiefs’ quarterback coach since he came to Kansas City along with Reid in Otherwise, there isn’t much in his coaching history. Nagy was an entry-level offensive assistant coach for Reid and the Eagles for three years before coming to Kansas City. Other than that, all of Nagy’s coaching experience has been at three high schools in Pennsylvania.
Clearly, though, Reid thinks a lot of Nagy. Reid gave Nagy his first NFL coaching job, then after the move to Kansas City trusted him with a most important project, working daglig
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An Andy Reid staff stalwart since the beginning, Brad Childress eager for next role
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- When Andy Reid got his initial head coaching job with the Philadelphia Eagles in , he hired an assistant off the staff at the University of Wisconsin by the name of Brad Childress to be his quarterbacks coach. Philadelphia’s starting quarterback that season was a journeyman, Doug Pederson, who had played for Reid when he was an assistant with the Green Bay Packers.
A few years later, Childress became the Eagles’ offensive coordinator and other than 4&#; seasons as head coach of the Minnesota Vikings and one as the coordinator for the Cleveland Browns, he’s been with Reid ever since.
“I’ve seen this thing from its infancy from back when I was coaching Doug as a quarterback,’’ Childress said.
Childress will again help Reid run an offense. An assistant for the Kansas City Chiefs for the past three seasons, Childress is now co-offensive co
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Childress had been with Reid for seven seasons in Philadelphia (), while Nagy had been with Reid as a coaching assistant in before being promoted to quality control coach () for their final two years together in Philly.
But Childress and Reid go back further than their time together in Philadelphia, as they were on the staff back at nordlig Arizona in —Childress was the offensive coordinator and Reid was the offensive line coach.
"We've seen each other through highs and lows," Childress explained of his relationship with Reid. "The lows of getting fired, the highs of getting jobs. Our families were close. Then he moved away and his family grew. I ended up with fyra children before I left NAU. He had five by time he got to Missouri (just three years later)."
Reid spent just one season at Northern Arizona before he was called bygd Dirk Koetter (the new head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers), who at the time was at the University o