After perusing assistants,I came up with this guy's name last week before he was ever mentioned anywhere. Other NFL teams are also looking at him but of course not the BEARS!




Win or lose, Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Teryl Austin has a busy few days ahead of him next week.

Austin said Thursday he hoped to fulfill requests from the Atlanta Falcons and San Francisco 49ers and interview for their vacant head-coaching jobs after today's wild-card game against the Dallas Cowboys, and according to NFL Network the Buffalo Bills have requested permission to speak with Austin as well.

Because the Lions play today, Austin is not eligible to interview with teams until next week.

He said he would try to take as many interviews as possible, depending on the Lions' playoff schedule.



If the Lions beat the Cowboys, they'll play in Seattle against the Seahawks Saturday night and Austin could schedule interviews for Friday in the Seattle area.

"The way I think the brackets are set up, we'd play on Saturday next week and it'd be a short week, so a lot of it would have to do, if our team here is ready," Austin said. "If I think I need the time to get our team ready here, then I won't interview. But if I feel I've got our team and everything that we have in here so that we can go play a quality game then I would."

Austin, 49, has played a big part in transforming the Lions' once-middling defense into a run-stuffing, big-play-containing unit.


He's in just his first year as an NFL coordinator, but reached the Super Bowl as defensive backs coach with the Seattle Seahawks, Arizona Cardinals and Baltimore Ravens, where he won a Super Bowl two years ago.

"For all of us, for him, I think, and his family, I think he's deserving of it and I think he's going to get one," Lions coach Jim Caldwell said. "I think if, once they get an opportunity to see him and listen to him and watch what he's been able to do, I think it'll happen for him and I think it'll be absolutely outstanding."

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

After yesterday, the Lions should replace Caldwell with him.

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Sure, because all of the other coordinators that the Bears have hired into the head coach position have worked out so well.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

give him next year without Suh or Fairley and no one would be interested in him

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Exactly.

No thanks.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

There are one hit wonder D & O coordinators every year in the NFL. The head coach needs to be a guy who has had consistent success over a lengthy period of time, not some guy who had 1 good year.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Those guys are employed by other teams already.

GM first.
Coach second.

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I'm fine with a college coach. Actually, I would prefer it. Gus Malzahn, Chris Peterson, David Shaw, Nick Saban, Mike Dantonio.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Yup, this lack of GM's in the house is a concern

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Wasn't Mike Ditka special teams coordinator of the Cowboys when he was hired as head coach of the Bears? His hiring worked out with the Bears winning Super Bowl XX.

My criteria is simple...the Bears SHOULD be looking across the league for organizations that meet 2 criteria:
1) do not have a HOF quarterback.
2) have been competitive in the playoffs consistently

In my world this rules out Green Bay, New England, Denver. That leaves Baltimore and Seattle. You also have San Diego, New Orleans, and NY Giants as borderline.

I don't know Seattle's full story, but Baltimore has Ozzie Newsome in charge with Eric DeCosta waiting in the wings. Baltimore has kicked all sorts of ass for a long time. Give Eric DeCosta whatever he wants. I cannot think of an even close to comparable option.

This sucks.

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Rejoice jimmy!

They just requested an interview.

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My Maserati does 186.

You had to go back 30 years!

Ditka was the last good hire by the Bears.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Hired by Papa Bear, BTW.

John Harbaugh, former special teams coach.

The Bears won the Super Bowl 29 years ago but the Bears have had a handful of coaches since Ditka. There have been plenty of first-time NFL head coaches (who were coordinators when they got hired) who have won the Super Bowl. Just since 2000, John Harbaugh, Mike McCarthy, Sean Payton, Mike Tomlin, Bill Cowher, and Brian Billick.

Windy, the Bears would never hire any of the 6 coaches you referenced. They are all a bit salty and red assed.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

It does seem that the McCaskeys learned their lesson with Ditka.

I don't care if he wins and wins and wins if he's generally defiant and a bit disagreeable. There must be another way.

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My Maserati does 186.

Wanny was salty and red assed.

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"It's not exactly a rocket surgery." D.J.

Not really. Always a gentlemen with the McCaskeys.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

The thought that Ditka made himself bigger than the team is pretty well accepted around the NFL.

The fact is, had he kept winning, he would have stayed because they never would have been able to fire him.

If Pace hits on personnel decisions and and a head coach, then he will write his own ticket here for as long as he wants.

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