Marc Trestman's coaching career is in jeopardy, and I don't just mean for Trestman in Chicago. That's not really a bold proclamation at this point. Dan Bernstein of CBS Chicago wrote Tuesday that Bears ownership met, and Trestman was likely to be fired. The Chicago Bears are 5-9 in Trestman's second year with the team, and the offense has been terrible.
Heading into Week 16, the Bears are 12th in passing yards, mostly because quarterback Jay Cutler isn't getting credit for all the yardage he creates by throwing it to the other team. He leads the league with 18 interceptions and is being benched in favor of Jimmy Clausen, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
No, rather, I mean that Trestman might be totally done in the NFL. The Bears' soon-to-be-former coach had been in a chilly exile north of the border, spending five years as head coach of the Montreal Alouettes. Before that, Trestman had a few years at North Carolina State as an offensive coordinator but had been a storied NFL offensive coordinator, spending 1985 to 2004 as an NFL coach in some capacity.
That's from the year I was born to the year I graduated high school.
The answer to why Trestman might be done as an NFL head coach following this year is the same as why he was such a dark-horse candidate to coach the Bears and why he had been in Canada anyway: He doesn't fit into the NFL's paradigm of coaching demeanor and acumen.
The book on Trestman has always been that he's an odd duck who didn't always rub people the right way. He was a near-perfect fit in his years as the Oakland Raiders' quarterback coach and offensive coordinator because that franchise has always embraced the oddities and rarities in both players and coaches, but other than that stint, Trestman only lasted a handful of years in every NFL stop.
Dan Pompei, who has covered the league for years and used to write for the Chicago Tribune, did a deep dive into Trestman's penchant for getting on people's bad sides. It's fantastic work, and anyone interested in why Trestman's not going to get another fair shake should read the entire thing and consider exhibits A through Z. I'll highlight this little nugget, though:Trestman is going to be shown the door having legitimized all of the chatter that he couldn't handle a locker room while simultaneously shattering the paradigm that he is some offensive genius who was ready to school the rest of the league on passing strategies.
Why would any team look at his time with the Bears and think Trestman is worth hiring again?
Michael Schottey is an NFL National Lead Writer for Bleacher Report and an award-winning member of the Pro Football Writers of America. Find more of his stuff on his archive page and follow him on Twitter.
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