The NY Jets became the laughingstock of the NFL when they hired much-maligned former Miami Dolphins head coach Adam Gase prior to the 2019 season. Six years later they're rumored to repeat their dreadful mistake.
Brian Costello of the New York Post reported on Wednesday that he predicts Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy will be the next head coach of the Jets in 2025.
Costello listed a number of potential Jets head coach options for this offseason including Mike Vrabel, Aaron Glenn, and others, but he believes Nagy is the one who will ultimately get the job.
Hiring coaches is always a case of speculative gambling, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a worse candidate for the Jets in the upcoming coaching cycle. The Adam Gase comparisons are fair.
Matt Nagy would be a disastrous head coach option for the NY Jets
Much like Gase, Nagy has made a career out of riding the coattails of others. The New Jersey native broke into the NFL as a coach due to a personal connection with then-Philadelphia Eagles head coach Andy Reid.
Nagy has gone on to spend 12 of his 16 years in the NFL working under Reid. His only stint as a coach not alongside Reid was when he was hired to be the head coach of the Chicago Bears in 2018.
Nagy spent four years in Chicago, amassing a 34-31 record — largely due to a dominant Bears defense — before he was fired following a 6-11 finish in 2021. He would rejoin the Chiefs as Reid's lackey, sorry I mean offensive coordinator, in 2023.
Kansas City's offense has taken a significant step back since Nagy was hired. The Chiefs boasted the No. 1 offense in the NFL in 2022, only to fall to 15th in points in Nagy's first season. They rank 11th in the NFL through 10 weeks this year despite the team's undefeated record.
Nagy has only found success as a coach working under a Hall of Fame head coach and alongside a future Hall of Fame quarterback in Patrick Mahomes. He doesn't even have experience coaching at the college level — Reid hired him when he was a high school offensive coordinator.
Despite this, Nagy's name has come up in coaching circles over the last few weeks. CBS Sports insider Jonathan Jones reported last week that Nagy could be given a second opportunity as a head coach next year.
This is despite the fact that Nagy does not call plays in Kansas City and that the Chiefs' offensive coordinator job has long been seen as more of a figurehead position. It's one of the biggest reasons why Eric Bieniemy was never able to land a head coach job.
Nagy has done nothing in his pre-Bears or post-Bears career to warrant a second opportunity as a head coach at the NFL level.
Unfortunately, with Woody Johnson possibly returning to the world of politics, the stage will be set for Christopher Johnson to return to the well of failed offensive head coaches who have made a career on the success of others.
Johnson hired Gase in 2019. Who's to say he won't hire Nagy six years later?
