Thomas Brown has endured a month that almost no coach in NFL history has ever experienced. He arrived last January to become the Chicago Bears passing game coordinator. That job remained stable through the summer and into September and October. Then, Shane Waldron was fired as offensive coordinator. Brown was asked to step in, and he accepted. Three weeks later, Matt Eberflus was also fired. Again, the team asked him to step in. Again, he accepted. Just like that, Brown had gone from minimal offensive assistant to Bears head coach.
The challenge never intimidated Brown. He always carries himself with a degree of self-confidence. He believes in his work ethic and attention to detail. However, he soon realized those promotions came with some consequences. He shared the biggest one with Bears media at his Wednesday press conference. Since getting promoted to offensive coordinator, he has lost 22 lbs.
Thomas Brown might have a screw loose, and it’s awesome.
You know a guy is different when he’s so dedicated to his job that he forgets to eat. Andy Reid and Mike McCarthy clearly don’t have that problem. They often say good head coaches are obsessed with their jobs. They’ll forgo going home in favor of staying at the facility to continue game planning, always looking for an edge. If what Thomas Brown says is true, he seems to have that same mindset. Being so laser focused on your work that you don’t it is unhealthy, but also a sign the job matters to you. Brown comes across as a maniacal competitor. This revelation is proof of that. It is difficult to say what will happen over the final five games. The young coach was given a raw deal of circumstances. Still, he fully plans to go down swinging. That is all anybody could ask of him.
He definitely looks much better. As Christian Bale stated, after his secretary said he looked great, in American Psycho, “you can always be thinner.”
We have 5 more weeks of the Bears don’t make the playoffs.
At that rate he’ll have lost between 50-70 lbs. That would mean the Bears will need a head coach by default.
Can someone send him a sandwich?
Brown appears to be everything Flus wasn’t. It will take a lot more than not being Flus to keep the job, but every time he speaks the more anxious I am to see what he can do as a the leader of men and leader of the Bears.
It also reinforces just how damn ignorant Flus was to not promote him to OC and instead hire Waldron. Flus’ head is so far up his ass, he can probably see the back of his tonsils.
Sounds like the impact of extreme stress with a fixation on…
Well, I heard he was on blood-thinner.