Spiegel

Shane Waldron and Thomas Brown could have been more opposite in their demeanor and their accountability and hard coaching, quite frankly.

Thomas Brown's more similar to Ben Johnson in terms of coaching somebody hard.

And I think what we've learned from Caleb in the past year is

It's not that he wants hard coaching.

They just didn't set that as the baseline when he got drafted.

It was the complete opposite with Waldron.

And so for Thomas Brown to have to come in in a situation where he brought up himself in that interview, we didn't even need to bring it up, that he held three different titles for the Bears in the same season, which is a very weird, unique circumstance for any coach.

But for him to come in after...

how passive Caleb had been coached at that point in that season.

And to try to 180 that in such a short amount of time, I don't think that was going to be a viable situation for either of them.

And I think the Bears probably made the right move at the end of the season that they were going to go in a different direction.

Obviously, we know the history.

They got Ben Johnson, all that.

But that doesn't mean that Thomas Brown can't be a successful head coach somewhere else.

where he can be the guy from the very start to set the baseline, to set the culture, set the tone.

He had no chance to flip that, really, when we look back on it.

And that's just how I look at that situation right now.

So he's had that opportunity with Drake May this year.

He's a tight ends coach there as well.

They're having a lot of success, and I'm happy for Thomas Brown as well.