The 2 coaches who ran the Bears this season as they spiraled to a 5-12 file and one other last-place end within the NFC North look like headed to new jobs.
The Cowboys plan to rent Matt Eberflus as defensive coordinator, and the Patriots are anticipated to signal Thomas Brown as passing-game coordinator and tight ends coach, NFL Community reported.
Eberflus’ transfer units him up for a return to Soldier Discipline, because the Bears will host the Cowboys subsequent season.
Eberflus, 52, went 14-32 as Bears head coach earlier than they fired him in November. He was with the Cowboys because the linebackers coach and passing-game coordinator from 2011 by ’17 earlier than spending the following 4 seasons as defensive coordinator for the Colts. He additionally was defensive coordinator at Missouri for eight seasons.
Eberflus spent most of his tenure with the Bears as their defensive play caller, they usually completed thirty second, twentieth and thirteenth in factors allowed in his three seasons as coach.
The Falcons and Bengals additionally interviewed Eberflus for defensive coordinator.
Brown, 38, is a rising star in teaching and was the Bears’ interim coach for the ultimate 5 video games this season after they fired Eberflus. He started the season as their passing-game coordinator earlier than stepping in as offensive coordinator after they fired Shane Waldron in mid-November and finally took over for Eberflus. He went 1-4 as interim coach, however ended the Bears’ 11-game dropping streak to the Packers by successful at Lambeau Discipline within the season finale.
Brown initially was a candidate for the Bears’ offensive coordinator job and has had a number of head-coaching interviews in the previous few offseasons. Earlier than the Bears, he had been offensive coordinator for the Panthers (2023) and the College of Miami (2016 by ’18), plus he was an assistant head coach to Sean McVay with the Rams (2021 and ’22).
Brown interviewed for the Bears’ head-coaching emptiness earlier than they employed former Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson. Johnson launched him from his contract and selected Broncos tight ends coach Declan Doyle as his offensive coordinator.
Johnson additionally employed former Raiders and Saints coach Dennis Allen as defensive coordinator and retained special-teams coordinator Richard Hightower.
