According to Anthony Rizzuti of Yahoo! Sports on Friday, the Chicago Bears have named Thomas Brown of Tucker, Georgia as their new head coach. Brown was with the Bears this season as their offensive coordinator and passing game coordinator.
The fact that the Bears fired Matt Eberflus should come as zero surprise. On Thursday in the Bears’s 23-20 loss to the Detroit Lions, we saw some of the worst clock management in the final minute of a National Football League regular season game we have ever seen. With the Bears driving down the football field and only trailing by a single field goal, they only got one play off in the final 32 seconds and remarkably did not use their final timeout. Yes, you could put some of the blame on rookie quarterback Caleb Williams, but the person who needs to take a significant amount of blame here is Eberflus for allowing the seconds to just simply tick away.
It is also amazing that Eberflus stayed in Chicago as long as he did as their head coach. In the three seasons since being hired on January 27, 2022, Eberflus did a terrible job. He had a record of 14 wins and 32 losses for a winning percentage of .304 after 46 games. It was also surprising Eberflus was allowed to keep his coaching job in Chicago after he won only 10 games in his first two seasons as the Bears head coach.
As a coach in the NFL, Brown has been an assistant since 2020. He was with the Los Angeles Rams from 2020 to 2022, as their running back coach, tight end coach, and assistant head coach. Brown was also part of the Rams team that won the Super Bowl in 2021. He was then the Carolina Panthers offensive coordinator in 2023.
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