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Giants Hire Nagy as O.C. and Apoint Dawn Aponte as Senior VP

 The New York Giants finally have a offensive coordinator in place with the hiring of former Kansas City Chiefs O.C. Matt Nagy.

A surprising hire to some, Nagy does have connections to Giants Head Coach John Harbaugh through Andy Reid. Harbaugh served as Reid's special teams coach with the Philadelphia Eagles from 1999-2007, before Harbaugh took the head coaching job with Ravens. 


Nagy has been a long time assistant for Reid at both the Eagles and Chiefs. There was a four year run where Nagy was the Head Coach of the Chicago Bears from 2018-21 that produced mixed results. While Nagy got the Bears to the playoffs twice, his offenses were consistently poor in Chicago. It didn't help matters that his quarterbacks were Mitchell Trubisky and Justin Fields. 

Still just the fact that the Giants get Nagy can be viewed as a positive, considering his work with Patrick Mahomes in recent years.  Mahomes skill set is very similar to that of Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart. The hope is that Nagy can help develop the Giants signal caller further along in year two of his career. 

Meanwhile Big Blue appointed Dawn Aponte as their new Senior VP of Football Operations. Aponte had served as the Chief Administrator for Football Ops in the NFL office for the past decade. 

If her name sounds familiar it should. She worked with the Jets from 1994-2005 in various front office capacities including cap analyst and senior director of Football Administration.  She was also a candidate for the Jets General Manager job last year before the team settled on Darren Mougy. 

Her connections to Giants GM Joe Schoen date back to the Miami Dolphins where Dawn was the Senior VP of football ops for three years from 2010-12. 

 

 

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