If the Bears need a new coach, what’s more important to you: experience or an offensive mind?
The Chicago Bears are mired in the middle of a four-game losing streak and their season is quickly slipping away. Players are upset with Matt Eberflus and fans are furious.
Will the Chicago Bears make a change at head coach at the end of the year? If they do, what type of coach should they bring in?
What’s more important to you for a new head coach: experience or an offensive mind?
There are really two types of coaches that make sense for the Bears to hire. They could hire a coach with experience as a head coach like Brian Flores or Mike Vrabel, or they could hire a hot-shot offensive coordinator to partner with rookie quarterback Caleb Williams like a Ben Johnson or a Joe Brady.
There aren’t really any experienced offensive-minded coaches available unless you want to take another run at Matt Nagy or go hire Mike McCarthy (these are jokes, people).
What’s the best way to go? That certainly depends on who you talk to.
My answer: The answer is an obvious one for me. I get the appeal of hiring someone like Mike Vrabel. He has experience, he has had success, and he knows how a properly run organization needs to operate, which certainly would be a welcomed change at Halas Hall.
But the Bears have tried that before with John Fox, and that certainly didn’t work. There’s no guarantee that a previously successful head coach will be successful in Chicago.
While that’s appealing and could be the answer if the Bears were in a different situation, to me, deliver me a great offensive mind that will get the most out of Caleb Williams.
I understand that the risk of hiring an offensive coordinator with no head coaching experience is that, as good as an offensive coach that they might be, they might be a bad head coach and the whole plan would fail, but that is, of course, why the interview process is critical.
That opens up the door to another issue, can you trust the Bears to hire the right head coach when they haven’t managed to do that in nearly 20 years? It’s a risk for sure.
But the reward outweighs the risk in my mind. Trying to hire someone like Ben Johnson is the best chance for the Bears to have a coach-quarterback combo for 15 years that can lead this team to consistent success after arguably it’s worst stretch in franchise history.