D-coordinator Vic Fangio comfortable with Bears' direction under Matt Nagy

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Vic Fangio weighed several factors before ultimately agreeing to a three-year extension with the Chicago Bears, but the respected defensive coordinator insisted Thursday that he never asked for more control over the direction of Chicago’s defense.

Why?

“I mean, [former Bears head coach] John [Fox] basically let me do everything really anyway,” Fangio said. “I don’t see much difference there.”

With Fox largely uninvolved in the team's defense, Fangio -- and the rest of the Bears' defensive assistants, most of whom Fangio expects to retain -- inherited one of the NFL’s worst defenses in 2015 and improved the unit significantly over the course of three seasons.

Fangio said he…