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Bears hire Chuck Pagano as defensive coordinator Published: Jan 11, 2019 at 01:36 PM DeAndrew White Jersey Around The NFL Writer After spending a season out of football, Chuck Pagano is back in the NFL. The announced they hired Pagano as their defensive coordinator Friday. Pagano replaces Vic Fangio, who left the to become the head coach of the . We have hired Chuck Pagano as our defensive coordinator.Welcome to Chicago, Coach! Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) "We are excited to add Chuck to our staff as defensive coordinator," head coach Matt Nagy said in a statement. "He has succe sful experience at many different levels in this league and he is a great teacher with an aggre Devontae Williams Jersey sive mentality that fits our style of football. He is a man of high character and has a pa sion for the game that will no doubt add to the culture we have already started building at Halas Hall." Pagano was Chris Doherty Jersey the head coach of the from 2012-2017, earning 11-5 finishes in three straight seasons (though he was absent due to a battle with leukemia in 2012) before consecutive 8-8 seasons and a 4-12 mark (without quarterback Andrew Luck) that resulted in a pink slip. Prior to his time with the , Pagano was the defensive coordinator in Baltimore in 2011. Joe Walker Jersey Pagano was mentioned by Bruce Arians as a candidate he might seek out for his hypothetical staff months before Arians was eventually hired by Tampa Bay (he hired Todd Bowles to be his defensive coordinator instead). As head coach of the , his team's defenses never ranked any better than 20th in yards allowed, but finished ninth in points allowed in 2013. Pagano hasn't filled a defensive coordinator role since 2011, so it will be interesting to see how he performs in Chicago. He's walking into an excellent Martavis Bryant Jersey situation with the , who boasted one of the league's best defenses and features a formidable edge-rushing duo in and . This article has been reproduced in a new format and may be mi sing content or contain faulty links. Please use the Contact Us link in our site footer to report an i sue.
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