SAD NEWS: Chicago Bears announced that Caleb Williams is Leaving immediately after Facing…..
SAD NEWS: Chicago Bears announced that Caleb Williams is Leaving immediately after Facing…..
New Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson spent his first month on the job building out his coaching staff.
In doing so, Johnson made a point not to limit his hiring pool. The NFL coaching profession can be a small world. Johnson wanted to keep an open mind.
“I didn’t hire a bunch of my friends,” Johnson said this week at the NFL combine in Indianapolis. “I went outside of my circle on purpose because I wanted to collect a different mix of experience, of energy, ideas, and we’re all going to make it come together.”
The Bears finalized the coaching staff a week ago with more than two dozen new assistant coaches. Assistant head coach and wide receivers coach Antwaan Randle El and quarterbacks coach J.T. Barrett were the only coaches Johnson brought with him from Detroit.
The staff included a defensive coordinator in Dennis Allen who has twice been an NFL head coach, and who had never previously worked with Johnson. It included a 28-year-old offensive coordinator in Declan Doyle who came highly recommended, but who also never worked with Johnson.
Johnson was intentional about not hiring his buddies. He also made a point to bring in coaches with varying levels of experience.
While his defensive coordinator is a former head coach, his offensive coordinator is the youngest offensive coordinator in the league.
Doyle has been a right-hand man for Super Bowl-winning head coach Sean Payton in both New Orleans and Denver. Doyle most recently was the tight ends coach in Denver.
