As Matt Nagy’s contract as offensive coordinator with the Kansas City Chiefs expired following the 2025 season, he did not rush into the next move in his career. Nagy just took a step back to take a hard look at his time as an NFL coach.

Last year in July, Nagy completed a ‘blind spot’ report through which he took feedback from over 40 anonymous people he had worked with throughout his coaching career. But it is only recently that Nagy addressed that report and admitted a critical error in his coaching.

“I would say maybe a little bit of the communication side,” Matt Nagy said in his Jan 13 interview on the NFL on CBS. “I always felt like, because of my honesty, I’m willing to have tough conversations. So, I feel like communication-wise, I felt like at the time I was better at that than I thought.

“You really have to have your ducks in line, and you have agents involved with players. You have coaches with their feelings and making sure that you’re doing everything you need to do for them. And you have the media as well, right? So, the Chicago media is not easy. They’ll get after you quick.”

The ‘blind spot’ report wasn’t all criticism, as Nagy received plenty of praise too. However, he admitted that one piece of feedback hit harder than the rest: he had not been as effective as he thought when communicating with agents, players, coaches, and the media.

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The Chiefs hired him as a senior assistant in 2022 and later promoted him to the role of offensive coordinator a year later. With his time in Kansas City seemingly coming to an end, the OC has chosen to openly acknowledge what went wrong in his coaching career.

Before joining the Chiefs, Matt Nagy served as the Chicago Bears’ head coach from 2018. He was fired after the 2021 season, but his time in Chicago wasn’t a disaster statistically.

In Chicago, Nagy had a 34-31 regular season record, only one losing season, and two playoff appearances. So why is his Bears tenure still criticized?

According to Nagy, the toughest times revealed his biggest weaknesses, especially in dealing with the media in Chicago.

“It’s their job to ask you tough questions. It’s your job to answer it honestly and give them how you think you can get better,” Matt Nagy said in the same interview. “I really believe that I probably could have been better in that aspect of being able to know what you’re going through, know what you signed up for.”

While Matt Nagy took up the head coaching job in Chicago, he was not prepared to deal with the pressure that he had to face from the media after his team lost a game. 

The report also pushed Matt Nagy toward a more CEO-style approach to coaching, focusing on communication, delegation, and leadership, rather than getting buried in the details of play-calling. He said going through this report helped him clear the doubts that lingered after his Chicago stint and allowed him to fully embrace whatever comes next.

And that next step might be coming sooner than expected for Nagy, with interviews already underway.

What’s next for Matt Nagy in his coaching career?

The Chiefs’ 2025 season ended much earlier than anyone in Kansas City expected. They finished 6-11, but Matt Nagy still appears to be in demand as a top candidate in the coaches market. The Tennessee Titans, Arizona Cardinals, and Las Vegas Raiders have already interviewed him for their head coaching vacancies. 

It is an astonishing fact that Nagy’s success as an OC contradicts the actual figures of the last three years. The Chiefs’ offense has declined every year under his play-calling.

In 2023, the Chiefs’ offense averaged 21 points per game. Then, in 2024, it rose slightly to 22, only to drop to 21 in 2025. Before Nagy, Kansas City’s offense regularly averaged at least 28 points per game each season, at least with their quarterback, Patrick Mahomes.

Regardless, his contribution never went unnoticed. Coach Andy Reid was all praises last month while talking about Nagy’s prominence in the locker room and his strategic schemes.

“Phenomenal,” Reid said in a presser on December 23. “We were on a record pace there for a bit, as far as statistically. I think he deserves to be a head football coach in this league.”

Matt Nagy helped the Chiefs win two Super Bowls in three years. Although last year’s title game loss to the Philadelphia Eagles still stings, his play-calling style and decision-making had a significant impact inside the locker room. The veteran coach is expected to land a new job soon, with multiple teams from both AFC and NFC looking to fill the coaching vacancies.