BOURBONNAIS — Matt Nagy’s hotel room opened out onto a cliff perched high atop his favorite vacation spot: the eastern Caribbean island of Saint Lucia.
Three weeks after the Bears’ season ended in dramatic fashion, he’d escaped there for a week with his wife — no kids — in late January. He’d return only to receive his NFL Coach of the Year Award the night before the Super Bowl.
In his room, Nagy opened a book that would come to define the way the Bears prepared for his follow-up season: “Legacy” by James Kerr. The 2013 book details 15 leadership lessons gleaned from New Zealand’s dominant national rugby team, the All Blacks.