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The Bears are still looking for coaches with ties to the Los Angeles Rams; on Wednesday, a league source said that they were interviewing offensive coordinator Thomas Brown of the Carolina Panthers. Brown had experience calling plays while serving as offensive coordinator for Carolina during the previous NFL season.
In college, he spent three years as an offensive coordinator as well. The previous season, Brown worked for Frank Reich, who was Matt Eberflus’s Indianapolis Colts employer when he was a coach for the Bears.
For the entire 2023 season, Brown did not call plays for the Panthers. After calling plays for the first six games, all of which were losses, Reich handed the job to Brown. Following Reich’s dismissal on November 27, Chris Tabor, a former special teams coordinator for the Bears, assumed the role of interim head coach.
The Bears might find much interest in what the Panthers offence accomplished last season with Brown as their offensive coordinator. When playing the Packers, they scored thirty points.
Last season, Brown collaborated with quarterback Bryce Young. In 2023, the Panthers suffered a 16–13 loss at Soldier Field against a Bears squad that featured quarterback Tyson Bagent.
From 2020 to 2022, Brown, 37, played for the Rams under Sean McVay. Before leaving for the Panthers, he served as the running backs coach his first season, the running backs coach the following, and the tight ends coach the season before that.
Strength and conditioning coach at Georgia was where he began his college coaching career. He later coached running backs at Chattanooga (2012), Marshall (2013), Wisconsin (2014), and Georgia (2015) before moving to Miami.
