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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.