Thomas Brown has more than one interview on his plate.
The Bears’ interim head coach, who will interview for the permanent position as part of the team’s wide-ranging search, is expected to talk to the Seahawks about their offensive coordinator vacancy, a source confirmed.
The Seahawks fired Ryan Grubb after one season with the team. He’d been the offensive coordinator at the University of Washington, finishing as the CFP national championship runner-up a year ago.
Brown was a strength and conditioning coach at Georgia, his alma mater, in 2011. Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald was a graduate assistant there in 2010 before spending three years as a quality control coach for the Bulldogs. Macdonald and Brown attended Georgia around the same time, though Macdonald didn’t play football. Brown was drafted by the Falcons in 2008 and Macdonald received a finance degree in 2010.
As the Bears’ interim coach, Brown went 1-4. His lone win came in the season finale against the Packers.
Monday, Brown explained what his ideal offense would look like.
“It’s got to be built around the personnel that you have,” he said. “How to put the guys in the right spot to have success, how to distribute the ball to the playmakers the right way, but also how to alleviate stress off the most stressful position, which is the quarterback and O-line. So to me you do that first by being able to run the ball effectively so you control the game and obviously set everything up off of that when it comes to the movements, how you move the pocket, the play-action pass to push the ball down the field. You don’t have to be a super dynamic running team to be effective at play-action pass, but it damn sure helps …
“We talk about third down first. It starts first with winning on first and second down, being effective in the red area, which comes with playmaking ability from the quarterback. You look at some of the best red zone teams across the league, a lot of times it’s off schedule plays by the QB, scrambling mechanics, but also running the football at a high, effective rate.”
