LAKE FOREST, Ill. — On Jan. 8 the Chicago Bears named Matt Nagy as the 16th head coach in the history of the franchise that George Halas built.
Nagy is Chicago's sixth head coach since the Mike Ditka era that spawned the ’85 Bears, and just the second, along with Marc Trestman, to have grown up on the offensive side of the football.
However, unlike Trestman, who coached for 32 combined years in 12 different stops, including five different offensive coordinator jobs before finally becoming an NFL head coach, Nagy has coached just 12 seasons — two as a high-school coach while also still trying to play the game, plus 10 in the NFL in Philadelphia and Kansas City — and he’s been an offensive coordinator for only the past two seasons.