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For the last four years, former Indianapolis Colts<\/a> head coach Chuck Pagano spent his early 60s enjoying his retirement. But the call of football and the temptation to return to the sidelines was always there.<\/p>\n

In January, Pagano signed on to join the Baltimore Ravens<\/a>‘ coaching staff as a senior defensive assistant\/secondary coach \u2013 his first gig since spending the 2019 and 2020 seasons as the Chicago Bears<\/a>‘ defensive coordinator. On Thursday, he spoke to the media about why he made the decision to return.<\/p>\n

“I never really stopped thinking about coming back,” he said.<\/p>\n

Pagano explained that his initial reason for retiring in the first place was needing a break from working after dealing with the stress of coaching during the 2020 season \u2013 the peak year of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

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After four years though, Pagano realized that his time not coaching football was leaving him with an itch he couldn’t scratch.<\/p>\n

“I was done with a workout, honey-dos, chores, and it’s 10 o’clock in the morning,” he said. “And I’m like, can’t start drinking, I wait till a certain time to start that, but it’s hard to fill your days.<\/p>\n

“(Returning to the Ravens) was the opportunity of a lifetime and probably the only place that could get me to come back.”<\/p>\n

Pagano was part of then-rookie head coach John Harbaugh’s first staff when he joined the Ravens in 2008, serving as the team’s secondary coach for three years before a promotion to defensive coordinator in 2011. He left for the Colts head coaching job in 2012, one year later.<\/p>\n

After six years with the Colts, two years with the Bears and four years of retirement, Pagano is back in Baltimore.<\/p>\n

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Just don’t consider this an indication that he has aspirations to be a head coach again.<\/p>\n

“No, sir,” he said in response to a question about a return head coaching.<\/p>\n

For now, Pagano is just enjoying the ride and making the most out of an opportunity to coach again.<\/p>\n

“When you have something, you kind of take it for granted. And then, when you don’t, you realize just how special it was: to coach and be a part of something \u2013 be a part of a team \u2013 have the relationships that you develop and build when you’re a part of something like that.<\/p>\n

“It’s been awesome.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ravens release kicker Justin Tucker after massage therapist allgations Ravens release kicker Justin Tucker, who was accused of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[247,265,184,117,2282,374,692,391,5570,2005,7,1436,2004,392,4465,2909,88,6,245,537,530,169,9,5573,266,5571,776],"class_list":{"0":"post-113421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-baltimore","11":"tag-baltimore-ravens","12":"tag-baltimoreravens","13":"tag-bears","14":"tag-chicago","15":"tag-chicago-bears","16":"tag-coaching","17":"tag-colts","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-harbaugh","20":"tag-indianapolis","21":"tag-indianapolis-colts","22":"tag-john","23":"tag-john-harbaugh","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-nfl","26":"tag-overall","27":"tag-overall-positive","28":"tag-positive","29":"tag-ravens","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-sports-coaching-u0026-training","32":"tag-sports-news","33":"tag-training","34":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114647339780076449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}