The Chicago Bears are a proficient staff on paper, which is why their 2024 NFL season has been irritating to observe.
The Bears have each cause to be optimistic about their future due to the play of rookie quarterback Caleb Williams and their different offensive items, however they value themselves potential wins over the previous few weeks resulting from some horrible teaching choices.
Head coach Matt Eberflus was fired following a clock-management debacle in opposition to the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving Day.
Chicago had no intentions of tanking coming into the season, although it now is able to nab a excessive first-round decide within the 2025 NFL Draft.
Nonetheless, crucial query is what they do with their head teaching emptiness.
One identify that makes plenty of sense is former NFL head coach Ron Rivera, based on Dan Pompei of The Athletic.
“Historical past just isn’t the one cause Rivera must be thought of. Like [Jim] Harbaugh, Rivera is a confirmed teaching commodity. His teaching journey started humbly as a high quality management coach for his Bears in 1997. Two years later, he went to work for Andy Reid in Philadelphia as a linebackers coach earlier than returning to Chicago to coordinate the protection in 2004,” Pompei wrote.
Rivera is aware of the Bears group nicely as a member of their 1985 Tremendous Bowl championship staff and their former defensive coordinator.
He additionally has a historical past of rebuilding applications and growing younger expertise, having coached the Carolina Panthers to a Tremendous Bowl look, so he may make plenty of sense for Chicago.
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