Close your eyes and think about the Bears’ defensive coordinators over the past decade. Bet you can picture each one of them.
The intense Mel Tucker was the future Michigan State godsend. Vic Fangio dressed like your old gym coach but is perhaps the best-respected coordinator of his generation. Chuck Pagano, the former Colts head coach and cancer survivor, spoke in thousand-word chapters and sounded like a walking self-help audiobook. Sean Desai, a professor in his spare time, was an academic.
Into that parade of play-callers steps Alan Williams, a 52-year-old lifer who has been on an NFL defensive staff each season since 2001.