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Hiring a head coach in the NFL is hard enough. Projecting how an assistant will do as a head coach is even harder. Yet that’s how the Bears have operated for almost the entirety of their 105-year history.
The Bears have hired two head coaches who had done the job before — John Fox in 2015 and Paddy Driscoll in 1956. Driscoll’s experience came as a player-coach for the Chicago Cardinals from 1920-22.
The other 16 people the Bears have hired as head coach — including interim Thomas Brown — had never held the position before in the NFL.