Former Colts coach Chuck Pagano ended his retirement in January to join the Ravens as the team’s senior secondary coach . It’s not a first step toward trying to be a head coach again.

“ No, sir ,” Pagano said Thursday, via Jamison Hensley of ESPN.com, when asked if he aspires to be a head coach. “Nobody has any idea until you sit in that seat.”

Pagano parlayed one season as the Ravens’ defensive coordinator (after three as the team’s secondary coach) into the head coaching job in Indianapolis. He spent six years with the Colts. After a year off, he served as the Bears’ defensive coordinator in 2019 and 2020. He was retired and out of coaching from 2021 through 2024.

“Some of my fondest memories and coaching moments were the first time I was here [in Baltimore] and just being a s

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