As temporary as Shane Waldron’s stint with the Bears was, he had this coming for a very long time.
The group fired Waldron as offensive coordinator Tuesday after simply 9 video games and changed him with Thomas Brown. Brown had been working as passing-game coordinator and was the offensive coordinator for the Panthers final season and for the College of Miami from 2016 by ’18.
Coach Matt Eberflus declined to make clear his plans Monday, however wouldn’t decide to Waldron remaining on workers this week. The change got here after a 19-3 loss to the Patriots, and the Bears have managed 27 factors over their final three video games.
“After evaluating our whole operation, I made a decision that it’s in the perfect curiosity of our group to maneuver in a special route with the management of our offense,” Eberflus stated in a press release Tuesday. “This determination was properly thought out, one which was performed intentionally and respectfully. I want to thank Shane for his efforts and need him the perfect transferring ahead.
“Thomas is a vivid offensive thoughts who has expertise calling performs with a collaborative mindset. I sit up for his management over our offensive teaching workers and his plan for our gamers.”
The Bears have had points offensively all through the season, and gamers started talking up about Waldron’s scheme and training after an unpleasant Week 3 loss to the Colts.
The Bears have scored 20 or extra factors 4 occasions, and the defenses they did that towards are ranked thirty second, twenty ninth, twenty seventh and twenty second. They’ve scored the ninth-fewest factors (19.4) and gained the third-fewest yards (277.7) per recreation within the NFL.
Brown, 38, has play-calling expertise because the Panthers’ offensive coordinator final season and for the Miami Hurricanes from 2016 by ’18. His most necessary activity is to additional the event of rookie quarterback Caleb Williams.
“They’re not going to reinvent the wheel,” Williams stated Sunday when requested about the potential of altering offensive play caller. “That’s not a call for me. I’ve to do what Coach says and cope with no matter determination he makes and I’ve to be superb with it.
“Will I be capable to adapt? Sure, I’ll. We will adapt to no matter determination he makes, and from there we’ve got to have the ability to exit and execute and win video games.”
Brown is a former working again, and the Falcons drafted him out of Georgia within the sixth spherical in 2008. He performed one season for them and performed for the Browns in 2009 and ’10.
Georgia employed him as energy and conditioning coach in 2011, and he acquired his begin in teaching because the working backs coach at Chattanooga in 2012. He labored his manner up at that place to Marshall (2013), Wisconsin (2014) and Georgia (2015) earlier than getting the coordinator job at Miami.
Within the NFL, Brown labored below Sean McVay as a Rams assistant from 2020 by ’22 earlier than going to the Panthers. Waldron introduced him to the Bears this yr, together with extensive receivers coach Chris Beatty, quarterbacks coach Kerry Joseph and working backs coach Chad Morton.
