Chicago Bears 2022 season in review: Grading the coaches

Last in our series grading the Chicago Bears’ performance in 2022 is the coaching staff. How good was the staff considering they were new and they didn’t have the weapons to compete?

We are at the end of our grading of the Chicago Bears in 2022. We looked at the offense, defense, and special teams. We cannot have a full view without also including the coaching staff.

Like the roster of players, Chicago’s coaching staff was overhauled. Matt Nagy was fired and the coaching staff was dispatched.

Poles, himself a new hire, wanted people similar to him. His job wasn’t just to rebuild the roster, he had to rebuild the coaching staff as well. In order to get the team to play 21st-century football, he needed modern-day coaches.

Knowing what he had planned for this season, Poles needed to have patient coaches who were more interested in developing young players rather than wins and losses. This was a season set to lay the foundation for the team’s latest rebuild. Wins and losses would not be of big importance.

Poles needed patient coaches who understood the assignment for 2022

Poles had to put a bulldozer to the roster to get it out of the salary cap hell the previous regime put it in. Additionally, he had to acquire more draft picks. The Bears were one of the oldest teams in the NFL last season. That needed to change.

Poles intended to build the team through the draft. In order for that to happen, he knew there would be growing pains. Putting in rookies and young veterans in key positions would result in a lot of miscues. Poles needed coaches who could teach the youngsters and help them develop.

To go through those growing pains, Poles needed coaches who understood what the assignment was for 2022. He did a pretty good job of assembling a coaching staff capable of leading the players through this rebuild.

Let’s take a look at the coaches and how they performed: