Bears Interim Coach Thomas Brown on the Future.mp4

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Bears coach Thomas Brown discusses how he views his chance to become head coach next year as well as what he brings to the sidelines as their top decision maker in games.

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00:00learn against or get right right away?

00:01Well, I think that's what happens is when you don't have success.

00:05There's division.

00:05I mean, so as far as the future goes in that process,

00:08that's out of my control.

00:10And so I do my best to avoid worrying about stuff I can't control

00:14because it's a waste of my time.

00:15So I can't control my approach every single day.

00:19What makes me decisive is I was raised by decisive decision makers.

00:22So my mother, my father were decisive.

00:24My older sister, Nicole, was very decisive.

00:28I was married for 16 years to a wife who was very decisive.

00:32And so I surround myself with decisive people.

00:34And I believe in just the process of how you go about things.

00:38Take it moment by moment.

00:39So I obviously had a conversation on Friday when I sat down with George

00:44and Kevin and Ryan about this decision being made.

00:48Didn't know about it, which I think is what Kevin mentioned before

00:51is the importance of a proper process.

00:53So you you respect people the right way.

00:56So there was, you know, no heads up given.

00:59There was a heads up needed.

01:00But I think being able to have a chance to

01:03get that information, address the staff briefly.

01:06I'd already planned to go home.

01:07So first, my first question was, do I have any obligations this weekend?

01:12My flight still leaves at four o'clock.

01:14And so I haven't seen my family in a month and a half.

01:16I haven't been home all year.

01:17And so I had a chance to go home and spend time with them being consistent.

01:22And so we all have to make adjustments.

01:25Life is ever changing.

01:27It's not an excuse.

01:29I make excuses.

01:30So I think being able to communicate effectively, to be on the same page

01:33is continue to find ways to demand that we do things the right way,

01:36but also taking it one play at a time, one day at a time.

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