The one Bill Belichick scenario that works out perfectly for the Chicago Bears

When it comes to the Chicago Bears' next head coach, the focus is offense, offense, offense. Who can the Bears pair with their young quarterback for the next decade and enjoy sustained success?

The desire for this long-term pairing and the chemistry that could be built between a quarterback and head coach often nixes the prospects of other defensive or special teams head coaches who may possess the needed leadership qualities, but have to overcome what will be a revolving door on their offensive coaching staff.

The Bears have already seen what this revolving door can do for quarterback development - unfortunately for them their door keeps revolving because the coaches they hire are inept, not because they are leaving for promotions elsehwere. Yet, it is likely to be why the Bears focus on pursuing offensive minded coaches, even as they maintain their desire to hire a 'leader of men'.

However, in addition to quarterback development, the Bears lack something else critical to a championship team: any semblance of a championship culture. The Bears have no institutional culture of winning. They've shown the ability to build strong rosters (not including the QB, till this year), but have yet to sustain any sort of long-term success. The Bears have not had back-to-back winning seasons since 2005-2006 and not had three consecutive winning seasons since '86-'88.

This is where the appeal of Bill Belichick coming to the Bears starts to materialize. With Belichick, the Bears would immediately shift their expectations both internally and externally. There would be no such thing as 'moral victories' and perfection in situational football would become priority number one. He's the type of coach who can come in and immediately garner the respect of a veteran locker room, and his experience around great players should be rewarding for the Bears' younger players who are chasing greatness themselves, including Caleb Williams and Rome Odunze.

The Bears defense is talented enough too, that Belichick will be able to come in and immediately have an impact on that side of the ball, and in a division with three elite offensive play callers and offensive skill groups, having the best defense should still matter.

However, there are still question marks of age and ability to develop a quarterback. This is where I think the Bears might be able to get the best of both worlds. At this point, I believe it's not a matter of if but a matter of when and where current Bears interim head coach Thomas Brown gets his first head coaching opportunity. A lot is riding on these next 5 games as it pertains to this Bears job, but at the very least he has shown all the makings of becoming a NFL head coach at some point in his career.

What if there was a situation where the Bears could hire Belichick and, in doing so, have him agree to retain Brown to work with Williams and serve as his assistant head coach?

The Bears could groom Brown to take over from Belichick whenever he hangs it up or whenever they feel he's ready. The big positive is that by that point, Brown will inherit a team with a winning culture instead of being tasked with building one in his first head coaching job.

It's a tricky situation to navigate because egos are involved and I'm sure Belichick has his own list of names he'd want to work with and trust over Thomas Brown. I'm sure Thomas Brown would require some selling on this successor plan-type role too, especially if he has a chance at other head coaching jobs this cycle.

A situation where the Bears are able to instantly generate championship expectations and championship standards by bringing in a 6x Superbowl-winning head coach, keeping continuity for their rookie QB with his play-caller, and grooming said play-caller to take over as their next head coach should definitely be front of mind as an avenue for this franchise to take going into this offseason.