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Nov 2, 2019 · For the last seven years, Chuck and Tina Pagano have been an instrumental part of the fight to treat and cure blood cancer. Their journey started the day they walked into the oncologist’s office and learned Chuck had acute promyelocytic leukemia. The disease had a high cure rate, and Chuck eventually beat it. The diagnosis shook him to the core.
Charles David Pagano (born October 2, 1960) is an American former football coach in the National Football League (NFL). He served as the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts from 2012 to 2017. Pagano previously served as the defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens in 2011, of the Chicago Bears from 2019 to 2020, and was an assistant coach for the Oakland Raiders and Cleveland Browns .
Jan 13, 2021 · After multiple reports of the news emerged on Tuesday night, Bears defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano officially announced his retirement from coaching on Wednesday. “After 36 years of coaching the game I love, I have decided to retire from the National Football League,” Pagano said in a statement released by the Bears.
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Nov 2, 2019 · When the Packers led 21-3 at halftime, Chuck gave his wife a halftime pep talk. The Colts outscored the Packers 27-6 the rest of the way and won 30-27. “To watch them come back,” he said ...
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Pagano made his living crafting game plans and adjustments for his players. Now, a few weeks before his 52nd birthday, he had to do the same for himself. That Wednesday afternoon, Dr. Larry Cripe at Indiana University’s Simon Cancer Center told Pagano he thought he had APL. A bone-marrow biopsy proved it. It had a high cure rate, but Pagano needed ...
Cripe told the Colts’ players the next Monday. The world found out soon after. Pagano’s phone became a chorus of pings. When Irsay found out Pagano didn’t have NFL Network in his hospital room, he paid for the channel to be piped into every room in the hospital. Every day, Colts staffers delivered a hard drive, filled with film from practice, that ...
Football isn’t war. It’s not life and death. Just ask the man in remission. ‘‘When we cross the white lines, we’re pretty much guaranteed . . . you’re allowed to go home with your family,’’ he said. ‘‘It gave me great perspective on things. You’re grateful for every opportunity you get.’’ And grateful, in retrospect, to step away. He took a gap yea...
Pagano speaks like a preacher. He has sayings — ‘‘So what? Now what?’’ and ‘‘I’m better, not bitter,’’ among dozens of others. Cornerback Prince Amukamara’s favorite is ‘‘skin like an armadillo,’’ Pagano’s demand that his players not take criticism personally. Amukamara laughed when asked whether Fangio, whom Bears players absolutely adored for his...
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Jan 13, 2021 · Chuck Pagano announced his retirement on Wednesday. A football lifer, Pagano spent 36 years coaching football at the professional and collegiate level. Pagano, 60, has a lengthy résumé that starts with graduate assistant stints at USC and Miami, had him coaching linebackers and defensive backs at Boise State, East Carolina, and Miami, and running defenses at UNLV and North Carolina.
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Jan 13, 2021 · 1:38. Chuck Pagano, who spent the better part of the last two decades coaching in the NFL, has decided to retire, according to multiple reports. Pagano was the defensive coordinator for the ...
