The ‘Monsters of the Midway’ are getting their swagger back. They are no longer playing it safe, instead swinging for the fences.
Tennessee State football coach and former Tennessee Titans great Eddie George will interview for the Chicago Bears head coaching position on Sunday, a source close to George informed The Tennessean late Saturday night.
In 2023, George, a former All-Pro running back, was a interim offseason member of the Bears’ staff as part of the NFL’s Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship. He spent the month of May in the ‘Windy City’, before packing his bags and returning to Nashville heading into his third season at TSU.
George recently concluded his fourth year at the helm at TSU. He led the Tigers to a 9-4 record, a share of the Big South/Ohio Valley Conference title and the first round of the FCS playoffs for the first time in over a decade, since back in 2013.
George was the Big South/OVC coach of the year and runner-up for the Eddie Robinson national coach of the year, which is awarded to the top FCS coach.
George’s career record at TSU is 24-22. He became only the fourth TSU coach in the last 37 years to lead the Tigers to consecutive winning seasons this season. They posted a record of 6-5 last year.
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The Chicago Bears parted ways with coach Matt Eberflus after two-plus seasons following a loss to the Detroit Lions in Week 13 on Thanksgiving Day. What a way for him to spend the holiday season. The Bears finished with a 5-12 record, bringing up the rear in the competitive NFC North Division.
The Bears confirmed that they have already interviewed a laundry list of candidates, 14 to be exact, including former Titans coach Mike Vrabel (who was named coach of the New England Patriots this week) and former Titans offensive coordinator and former Atlanta Falcons coach Arthur Smith. Others included Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, former Seattle Seahawks coach 73-year-old Pete Carroll, former Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy, and former Carolina and Washington coach Ron Rivera, who won a Super Bowl with the team in 1985.
Eberflus was Chicago’s coach in 2023 when George spent his time on the staff during the Bears’ OTAs.
“Me being relatively new to coaching, I’m able to sit in on a lot of different meetings from medical to equipment to physical training, staff meetings, scheduling, operations; the whole gamut of the business and understand it from that perspective, as well as game-planning and on-the-field stuff too,” George told chicagobears.com at the time. “It’s been great in that capacity.”
