Will Sunday’s Chiefs-Raiders finale be the last for Matt Nagy, Steve Spagnuolo?
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- Chiefs end 10-year playoff run after Week 18 finale
- Nagy declined extension; expected to be in mix for Titans job
- Spagnuolo linked to Giants; noncommittal on another head-coach stint
The Kansas City Chiefs have one final game left on their 2025 schedule — a Week 18 matchup against the Las Vegas Raiders.
As has been known for a while now, the Chiefs won’t be heading to the postseason, ending a 10-year run of playoff football in Kansas City. And with the finality of Sunday’s game comes the possibility that it could also mark the end of the coordinator tenures for both Matt Nagy and Steve Spagnuolo.
Because of his connection to former Chiefs assistant general manager and current Tennessee Titans general manager Mike Borgonzi, Nagy is expected to be in the mix for the Titans’ vacant head coaching job.
In mid-December, NFL Network first reported that Nagy chose not to sign a contract extension to remain in Kansas City past 2025.
“I really feel good about where I’m at,” Nagy said Thursday. “Again, here we are at the end of the season, so this is the time where this stuff comes up. I’ve prepared for several years since I went through it at the right time.”
In his first season as the Chicago Bears’ head coach in 2018, Nagy guided Mitch Trubisky to 12 wins and was named NFL Coach of the Year. Over the next three years, the Bears went 22-27, and Nagy was dismissed after the 2021 season.
He returned to Kansas City in 2022, first as a senior assistant before reclaiming the coordinator role.
“Everything that I went through in Chicago, it all happened for a reason,” Nagy said. “To be able to come back here in Kansas City and be here with Coach (Andy) Reid and all these players is special. We’ll just continue to work through all that and see whatever happens, but it’s fun. It’s just that time of the year, so be ready for it.”
On the other side of the ball, the New York Giants have been connected to Spagnuolo, who has served as the Chiefs’ defensive coordinator since 2019. Spagnuolo famously led New York’s defense to one of the greatest upsets in league history, when the Giants knocked off the previously undefeated New England Patriots, 17-14, in Super Bowl XLII. Partially stemming from that victory, the St. Louis Rams hired Spagnuolo as their head coach in 2009. In Spagnuolo’s three seasons across the state, the Rams went 10-38. He later had stops in New Orleans and Baltimore before returning to New York, eventually landing with the Chiefs.
Asked about the possibility of a second stint as a head coach, Spagnuolo was more reserved than Nagy but didn’t close the door.
“Yeah, I’m not going to go down that road right now,” he said. “I’m involved in this (the final game in Kansas City), but listen. I’m a prideful guy. We’ll see what happens at the end of the year.”
