Don't hire the interim coach
The media covering the Bears are just so, so dumb



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In a span of 18 days, Thomas Brown went from the Bears’ passing game coordinator to offensive coordinator to interim head coach. Holy crap. By Christmas he’ll be the general manager and by New Year’s he’ll be the team president breaking ground on a new stadium in Arlington Heights.
Here’s what we know about Brown, the first interim head coach in the 104 years of the Bears. The offensive players respect him more than the sentient pile of mashed potatoes that was Shane Waldron. The team respects him more than former head coach Matt “I really liked what we did there when the entire team fell into a ditch and exploded” Eberflus.
Brown got promoted to offensive coordinator largely because the passing game he was titularly in charge of was non-existent. He got promoted from offensive coordinator to head coach mostly because Matt Eberflus is still standing on the Ford Field sidelines staring blankly at the scoreboard, but two weeks ago the Bears lost to the Vikings in no small part because a crucial fourth down play call came in too late from the coordinator (who was that, again?) to Caleb Williams and it cut out halfway through and Caleb had to guess what the rest of it might have been. On Thanksgiving, the scripted plays to start the game generated two first downs and 38 yards. Who calls those?
As far as interim head coaches go, Brown is easily the best one the Bears have ever had. (Chris Tabor did actually fill in for Matt Nagy once in 2021 when Nagy had COVID, but the loss went on Nagy’s record, as Tabor was not technically interim. Plus, I’m sure Nagy was calling plays in from his stupid basement room wallpapered with his own old play sheets.)

Brown checks all of the necessary boxes: