Former Bears coach Matt Nagy lands with Giants as offensive coordinator: report

The Giants are hiring former Bears coach Matt Nagy as their offensive coordinator, The Athletic reported, after he struck out on head-coach openings. Nagy will work under new coach John Harbaugh and gets the chance to help develop promising young quarterback Jaxson Dart.

Nagy’s offseason was curious after the Chiefs basically fired him as offensive coordinator without saying so. His contract ran out at the end of the season, and the Chiefs quickly moved to hire Bears running backs coach Eric Bieniemy as their new offensive coordinator.

Nagy was the Chiefs’ quarterbacks coach from 2013 through ’15 and offensive coordinator from 2016 through ’17 under Andy Reid before taking the Bears job. When the Bears fired him at the end of the 2021 season, he went back to the Chiefs as quarterbacks coach for the 2022 season and was promoted to offensive coordinator in ’23.

He went 34-31 coaching the Bears from 2018 through ’21, including a breakout first season in which the Bears won the NFC North and made the playoffs for the first time since 2010. He won Coach of the Year that season after flipping the team from 5-11 to 12-4.

The rest of his tenure was a struggle, though. Nagy couldn’t get quarterback Mitch Trubisky on track, then mishandled the onboarding of first-round pick Justin Fields. He went 22-27 over his final three seasons, and the Bears ranked 21st or worst in total offense each of his seasons coaching them.