Matt Nagy knew Nick Foles so well that he picked the quarterback up from Kansas City International Airport when the Chiefs signed him in August 2016. They drove to the Nagy family house in Overland Park, Kan., and played with the coach’s kids. Nagy eventually loaned Foles his car for the rest of training camp.
“He put my backrest back too far,” the Bears head coach joked in December 2018.
As the Bears were preparing to play the Eagles in the playoffs, Nagy called Foles “as good of a human being as you will find,” and “somebody who cares about others, somebody who just wants to play for the love of the game.