New Bears coach Thomas Brown preached accountability for a team that needed it — then he went a step further

It was easy for Thomas Brown to begin his tenure as Chicago Bears interim head coach preaching accountability.

It would have been easy, too, for Brown to simply voice the pillar’s importance and then demonstrate it at a later date.

This was just his first press conference as interim head coach, less than a month after he had been elevated to offensive coordinator in the wake of Shane Waldron’s firing.

But Brown said he wanted his team to embody three “abilities: coachability, accountability and dependability.

“That’s all of us, myself included,” he said Monday afternoon. “I’m not above coaching. I’m not above accountability. We get that done together.”

Bears interim head coach Thomas Brown will still call plays. Chris Beatty elevated from WRs coach to OC.

TB’s message to team today: “The initial goal is to unify this football team. … Coachability, accountability, dependability. That’s all of us. Myself included.” pic.twitter.com/aRwK7jUEhV

— Jori Epstein (@JoriEpstein) December 2, 2024

Then, he showed it.

Unprompted, before he opened the floor to questions, Brown brought up the team’s recent end-of-game losses. The Bears lost to the Washington Commanders on a poorly defended Hail Mary in late October. They’ve lost their past three games by a combined seven points thanks to a blocked kick, overtime sputtering and mismanaged clock.

Matt Eberflus was an easy scapegoat after he was fired Friday. Brown didn’t stop the accountability there.

“I know there’s a lot of scrutiny, talk, dialogue about what’s happened at the end of some of these games,” Brown said Monday. “I am not exempt from responsibility in those actions.

“The word ‘team’ — I believe in doing things together. We get rewarded together, we also get criticized together. So we will have an internal process we’ll go through on a weekly basis to prepare ourselves for those opportunities. And on game day, we’ll execute.

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Publish date : 2024-12-02 22:27:00

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