The Chicago Bears have found their new offensive coordinator in Bill Lazor, who might’ve been a target of Matt Nagy’s from the start.
According to ESPN’s Jeff Dickerson, Nagy was interested in bringing Lazor in as his offensive coordinator when he was named head coach of the Bears in 2018.
As @RapSheet reported, Bears hiring Bill Lazor as new offensive coordinator. Matt Nagy had interest in Lazor as OC back in 2018 but Lazor stayed in Cincy. Lazor — out of the league in 2019 — also attended a couple Bears’ OTA workouts this past spring as a guest.
— Jeff Dickerson (@DickersonESPN) January 13, 2020
Lazor was with the Bengals from 2016-18, where he served as quarterbacks coach for a season before being promoted to offensive coordinator in 2017. He helped coach Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton, who could hit the free agent market this offseason.
With Lazor choosing to remain in Cincinnati in 2018, Nagy hired Oregon head coach Mark Helfrich as offensive coordinator. Helfrich was relieved of his duties shortly after the end of this disappointing season, where the Bears offense ranked near the bottom of nearly every statistical category.
While Lazor was out of the NFL this season, he served as a volunteer consultant for Penn State. And according to Dickerson, he took in some Bears practices during OTAs last spring.
Now, it looks like Nagy has his guy. And the two are going to be tasked with turning around a Bears offense that was downright abysmal last season.
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