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Nagy then selflessly allowed Foles to borrow his car for the rest of camp.
"I didn't have a car and he let me use his car in training camp, so I could get from place to place," Foles said a few days before leading the Eagles into Soldier Field to face the Bears in a 2018 wild-card playoff game. "He just rode with a coach. I mean, that's who he is.
"Not only as a person but as a coach, he's unbelievable. I admire him. He's one of my favorite people in the world."
With the Chiefs in 2016, Nagy served as co-offensive coordinator with Brad Childress on Reid's staff. Foles was Kansas City's No. 2 quarterback, wedged on the depth chart between veteran starter Alex Smith and third-stringer Tyler Bray, who will once again be Foles' teammate with the Bears.
Working with that group instantly reignited Foles' passion for the game.
"Just being around Nagy, being in the room with him, talking with him, being with Alex Smith, being with Tyler Bray and those guys, it was being around the people," Foles said last Friday. It had nothing to do with football. It had to do with the culture and the energy from the human beings within the organization. Four days into training camp, I started loving the game. This love of the game poured in."
A year later, Foles returned to the Eagles and led the franchise to its first Super Bowl championship after replacing injured starter Carson Wentz late in the regular season. Foles passed for 971 yards and six touchdowns in three postseason wins and was named MVP of Super Bowl LII.
We'll never know for sure, but none of that likely would have happened if not for the special season he spent with Nagy and the Chiefs in 2016.
"Being around Matt that year was so much fun," Foles said. "It was fun going in the QB room and being with him and watching films just because of him as a person and what he represents."