Thomas Brown’s latest quip makes you wonder why Chicago Bears didn’t trust him sooner

The Bears’ new play-caller sounds like a potential head coach in the making.

New Chicago Bears offensive play-caller Thomas Brown certainly learned a lot from watching the unit under former OC Shane Waldron — even if it was how not to run an offense.

In the last week, he has taken an offense that languished in the three weeks after the bye and immediately re-injected life into it, putting the Bears in position to knock off the hated Green Bay Packers until a blocked field goal ruined the fun.

How did he do it, exactly?

“My goal is always to put our guys in the best spot,” Brown told reporters on Thursday at Halas Hall.

Now, it’s worth noting any coach worth his salt says stuff like this. Everyone wants to or thinks they know how to put their players in positions to succeed. If you don’t, you won’t be employed for long.

But Brown said something also in his Thursday presser that spoke louder than anything else and, even more importantly matched the eye test of what he did last Sunday with the offense.

When asked how he adjusts his play calling to his personnel, Brown said: “It doesn’t matter what I’m comfortable with, I don’t play. I can always adapt and adjust.”

Excuse me?

Is a Bears offensive coordinator allowed to say that?

Brown … adapted? And adjusted?

He didn’t demand that his rookie quarterback, who’s known for his playmaking outside of the pocket, drop back and sit in the pocket as everything collapsed around him?

He got Cole Kmet the ball as many times in one game as the Bears offense in the three weeks prior, including a giant goose egg against the Cardinals?

He got rookie receiver Rome Odunze more targets and receptions than he’d seen since Week 3 and figured out how to use Roschon Johnson effectively in the red zone?

After sitting through four years of Matt Nagy’s stubbornness, two years of the currently unemployed Luke Getsy’s consistent ineptitude, and nine weeks of Waldron’s incompetence, it feels jarring for an offensive coach to admit they do something as spontaneous as “adapt” to the players they have.

What’s more, Brown has made sure the offense knows they still weren’t good enough to win Sunday’s game — “There are no attaboys in this game,” he told the unit — and that they’ll need a better game against the Vikings and hyper-aggressive DC Brian Flores.

“He demands a certain standard in terms of the way we practice and the way we operate, and I think guys really bought into that,” Kmet told CHGO Sports earlier this week.

If Brown keeps talking and producing results like this, he’s going to mess around and become a head coach one day — even if it doesn’t happen with the Chicago Bears.