news Bears fans or is it good news?

Last week the team fired their head coach Matt Eberflus marking the first time in franchise history.

A head coach has been sacked during the season.

The move came after Chicago's 6th straight loss on Thanksgiving Day offensive coordinator Thomas Brown will serve as interim coach while the organization looks for a replacement who Bears president CEO Kevin Warren said will be exhaustive organized and diligent.

Joining us now with more is Kevin Fish being Chicago Bears beat writer for The Athletic.

Welcome back.

Thank you for joining us.

Thank you, member.

So this is not the Bears first losing season said the Sabres but it is the first in-season firing that the team has ever made.

What do you think prompted this?

>> Well, there are a lot of high hopes for this team.

There's a lot of intrigue, excitement that Caleb Williams that a lot of returning starters coming back I had never seen this month miss much inside of her team.

Probably 5 to 10 years and for them to lose 6 in a row, 4 of which came in the final play of the game.

A lot of times you look to the coaching, you look to the head coach.

I think what happened on Thanksgiving was was another loss that came at the end.

The Cayman head scratching decision or lack thereof for Eberflus and players are very upset very for a single in the locker room afterwards and then bears ownership Bears.

General manager of the front office realized they had to move on because they need to get a runway to next season.

They need to improve in these final 5 games and use this good nucleus to have something positive happen.

So is the right call.

right call.

I think the only question was when not if could probably argue that maybe should have done 3 weeks ago.

You could argue it should have been done a year ago that they should not have left many.

But first get to your 3 knowing they had this opportunity to get the number one pick drafted Williams.

They can finally lineup.

Gm head coach and quarterback for the long term.

The decide to stick with Eberflus and now they're going down a cycle.

The Chicago Bears have gone down over and over again for 2 decades.

Now.

>> Well, to that point, issues in the organization be on the head coach, several money.

It's you know, I think a lot of this goes starts at the top.

And if you look at >> what the Bears have since George McCaskey took over as chairman.

So many hires just haven't gone wrong.

They've had 3 general managers and his time they're going outlook for another head coaching his time.

And the quarterback obviously has been a quarterback carousel that 1, 0, playoff games since 2010.

So a lot has gone wrong.

So many areas ability.

Some things have improved.

Certainly.

And as I said with Caleb Williams, you have some hope.

You have some excitement.

There's a lot of great good young players.

2018 was a lot of fun.

You know, 20 time they had the playoff win.

But haven't been a whole lot excitement.

>> What can we expect to see from the interim coach Thomas Brown, whose I he's been on the come-up, right, like he's gotten too pretty decent size promotions.

Recently, less than a month ago, he was the passing game coordinator who talked to us once every 2 weeks now is the head coach is going to talk to us 4 times a week is gonna be the voice of the team.

And I think you talk to players and coach is he has an energy that they really like and he has kind of a galvanizing presence in that room in that building that really attracts players and coach is that they really feel that energy.

He's very direct.

I think they like that.

He seems to be very confident.

He talks about that a lot.

He's going to be himself.

And I think players respect that.

I think certainly the way Caleb Williams has played the last 2 weeks, certainly help Thomas Brown get into this role because they've seen the offense is playing well.

They want to keep that going.

He's got a lot of other things he has to do as head coach of the poster just calling the plays.

That's he was doing the last few weeks.

But this is a bit of a job interview for him, not just for the Bears but for the teams around the league.

He is somebody that's probably going to be an NFL head coach one day.

>> Is it going to the Bears?

Next season is going to be another team next season will see of its a great opportunity certainly an opportunity for for him to audition.

President Kevin Warren announcing today that general manager Ryan Poles will be leading the search for the new head coach.

What does he need to be looking for to get it right in?

>> How safe is polls?

>> Yeah, well, the view rarely do see a general manager at the higher 3 head coaches.

So this will be the second head coach Ryan Poles.

We'll hire to go in the first time.

He doesn't cover warrant says we very important because if you want to say that, you know, it's a results-driven league.

The Bears results haven't been there.

The head coach he hired was wrong.

The corners that they've hired have been wrong.

So a lot of and this is the roster he has built.

That is now for an 8 for a lot of reasons.

So I think for him he has to get this right.

The organization has to get this right.

I think that they're looking for somebody.

interesting you mention Thomas Brown because I think there are a lot of traits that he has.

The bears should be looking for someone that is very strong, very secure, very comfortable in their own skin, very confident and maybe have some head coaching experience to maybe that's what this building needs.

Because, again, this is not a rebuilding situation.

They have the players that can compete.

They someone to figure out how to reach them in and a better way than many first.

>> How do you assess Ryan Poles decision-making in general?

The roster is in a good spot.

The salary cap space is in a good spot to have extra draft pick next year.

They have what they have good draft capital so they continue to build.

But if you are going to be frustrated with Matt Eberflus is time as head coach, you have to look at the person who put him in a position in the first place and the person of the site to keep him after year to which Ryan posted.

And then if you look at some of the issues that have happened on the field with some of the players, the defense to playing as well, taken care of a long time to get part of the offense ago.

Point to Shane Waldron, the officer Porter, who was fired a month ago, we talked about first head coach fired in-season.

Shane Long was the first officer corner.

The Bears have fired his season ever.

So a lot of precedent things.

So I think a lot of those things fall into Ryan Poles, umbrella.

He is in charge of football operations.

He now has an opportunity to take this roster.

What you it is not roster that can compete.

That should be 75 right now instead of 4, 8 and now it's on him to find the right head coach for this group, 5, 6 weeks left.

What should their goals be for the rest of the season?

Number one goal is Caleb Williams.

Get him on the right path.

You want him to be arrow up again this season.

You want to feel really good that he is your guy.

Everything you do has to be about supporting him and getting him to play well, getting him confident getting wins.

He's got to learn how to win.

He hasn't won very much, obviously since he's been here.

So I think that's goal number one.

And you do want to win games.

have some good players.

You want these players to feel good and you got a fear of who's staying and who's going from coaches to players.

So a lot of valuation the next 5 weeks.

But for Bears, fans when it comes to January 8th in the season's over, you want to feel really, really good about your quarterback will be