The Bears may’ve had Jim Harbaugh roaming the sidelines this season, however workforce president Kevin Warren put the kibosh on the concept.
That’s based on studies from Chicago sports activities speak host Dan McNeil and former NFL basic supervisor Michael Lombardi.
McNeil, who hosts a podcast on the BetRivers community and was a longtime host at 670 the Rating, received the ball rolling with a publish on X Thursday morning.
“BREAKING: Jim Harbaugh wanted to talk to the #Bears in January, but Kevin Warren quashed it,” McNeil wrote. “Via a long-time team employee, Harbaugh expressed interest in the HC job. The staffer told Ryan Poles, who told Warren. The president dismissed it summarily.”
Lombardi vouched for the report throughout an look on “The Pat McAfee Show.”
“Kevin Warren is running that team. Let’s make no mistake about that. You can sit there and say that somebody else is, but he is,” Lombardi mentioned.
“And that story about Jim Harbaugh is completely true. Remember, Warren and Harbaugh had some differences … when Warren was commissioner of the Big Ten and Harbaugh was at Michigan. But there were two teams who Jim Harbaugh would’ve loved to worked for: the Bears — who he played for — and Raiders — who he worked for in his first coaching job — but neither team decided to go after him.”
A Bears spokesperson didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark in regards to the studies.
As an alternative of constructing a play for Harbaugh, the Bears opted to convey again Matt Eberflus for this season.
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At 4-8, the Bears fired Eberflus, the primary time the group has ever terminated a coach mid-season.
As Lombardi talked about, Harbaugh and Warren butted heads throughout their time collectively within the Huge Ten.
Harbaugh was important of the choice that Warren made to cancel the 2020 Huge Ten season through the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Our student-athletes and coaches want to compete,” Harbaugh mentioned after Warren had introduced that the season can be canceled. “They have committed, trained and prepared their entire lives for this opportunity, and I know how much they’re disappointed at this time. I share in their disappointment today.”
The choice was later reversed and the Huge Ten performed a partial season.
Harbaugh joined the Chargers and the workforce is 8-4 throughout his first yr in Los Angeles.
