The Packers could do it, though.

Last year, Brown was the offensive coordinator who very almost kept green bay out of the playoffs. He called Carolina’s plays in Week 16, when the Panthers scored a season-high 30 points, rallying from a 30-16 deficit in the fourth quarter to tie the score with 4:05 left. But the Packers escaped with a 32-yard field goal by Anders Carlson to win 33-30.

That game actually impacted the Bears because a Packers loss that day would have put the Bears in position for Week 18 to make the playoffs. Instead, they limped into Green Bay with their heads down after their playoff chances ended in Week 17. The offense faded as it often does against the Packers in a 17-9 loss. It was a game in which they made the same offensive effort as in the last three games.

So maybe they have the “silver bullet” for this Packers curse, so to speak?

Or maybe not.

In fact, the Panthers really didn’t do very well. with Brown calling plays. They didn’t do very well last year with no one calling plays.

That’s why Frank Reich was fired after a 33-10 loss to the Cowboys in Week 12.

Brown’s snaps began in Week 8 after the bye. Reich’s team had started 0-6 and defense had been their real problem, as they gave up 31 points per game.

Carolina stunned playoff-bound Houston on Brown’s first plays, a 15-13 victory. They then lost to the Colts 27-13 and came to Chicago for a night game against Matt Eberflus and the Tyson Bagent-led Bears. The Bears won 16-13.

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So Reich took over Brown’s play-calling duties for the Dallas game after the offense scored 41 points in three games. The Cowboys defeated them and Reich was ejected.

Following the firing, former Bears special teams coach Chris Tabor became interim head coach. Brown served as play-calling OC the rest of the year. The Panthers had their 30-point game against the Packers.

However, in Carolina’s other games under Brown, Carolina never scored more than 18, was shut out twice and scored six, nine and 10 with rookie number one overall pick Bryce Young playing QB.

So there are definitely very familiar elements here in the Bears situation for Brown.

Even more troubling is the status of the Bears’ current play calling.

First Reich announced that he was going to study a play change for Carolina, then for two days he was “still evaluating” the change before deciding to let Brown do it.

We are all sitting there waiting for Ebeflus to evaluate it.

It would be deja-vu all over again for Brown if he were the person entrusted with this duty, barring the firing of the head coach.

When the Panthers gave Brown the keys to the offense for good, they announced that Jim Caldwell would move from Brown’s top assistant to special advisor to guide him. That’s the same Jim Caldwell who interviewed for the Bears head coaching job and was a finalist with Dan Quinn and Eberflus.

In total, the Panthers scored 114 points in 10 games under Brown. That’s an average of 11.4 points for those who struggle with math.

But hey, that was better than the nine points per game the Bears have averaged under Waldron over the last three games.

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