Bears hire Phil Snow as a defensive analyst

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Bears head coach Matt Eberflus made an addition to his staff on Monday.

Eberflus announced that the Bears hired Phil Snow as their defensive analyst. Eberflus has been serving as the team’s defensive coordinator since Alan Williams resigned and he said last week that he was looking to bring on an experienced coach to help on that side of the ball.

Snow was the Panthers defensive coordinator under Matt Rhule from 2020 until Rhule was fired last season. Snow also ran Rhule’s defenses at Temple and Baylor, but did not join Rhule’s staff at Nebraska this year. Snow also worked as an assistant for Rod Marinelli with the Lions and Marinelli is a mentor to Eberflus.

“He’ll be here Monday giving us those reports, Tuesday giving us those reports as we do our game planning, and then he’ll be certainly helpful to our defensive staff,” Eberflus said, via Patrick Finley of the Chicago Sun-Times.

The Bears are 29th in points allowed and 25th in yards allowed this season, but they allowed the fewest in each category during their Week Six loss to the Vikings.

 

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/bears-hire-phil-snow-as-a-defensive-analyst

[t96]

He was a bit of a bright spot in the Rhule era honestly. 

[LinvilleGorge]

Honestly, Snow was the least of our issues under Rhule.

When they call to inquire about Chinn just hang up. Like damn y'all, our ass is still hella sore from that last trade deal reaming y'all gave us. Let us recover from that before discussing another deal with you guys.

[CmC2k]

Honestly Phill snow wasn't that bad he was actually pretty solid. I'm just surprised he's still able to work with his back being broken from carrying Rhule's teams to moderate success for all the years Ruhle's had him on staff. 

[Jay Roosevelt]

I assumed he was at Nebraska with Rhule.

[hepcat]

Phil Snow was basically the coach under Rhule given the rumor Tepper couldn’t get Rhule in a room alone without Snow in the room. The defenses looked good sometimes but also fell apart in key moments sometimes. 

[App Panther]

We've had worse Defensive coordinators. Eric Washington comes to mind. 

[Mage]

Always was a big fan of Phil Snow.  

[Bearzzz]

I guess his job will be to scout future opponents 1-2 weeks ahead.

[t96]

1 hour ago, hepcat said:

Phil Snow was basically the coach under Rhule given the rumor Tepper couldn’t get Rhule in a room alone without Snow in the room. The defenses looked good sometimes but also fell apart in key moments sometimes. 

The key moments point is somewhat fair as that did happen o just wonder how much of it was that all the pressure was on the D and they were often gassed later in games because the O could never sustain drives to keep them off the field. Considering how bad the D was in Ron’s last year here and the key pieces we lost that offseason, Snow did a pretty damn good job with the D overall

[Chaos]

Offer them Burns for our first rounder back.

[DeAngelo Beason]

He did a much better job for us than Evero has to this point.

[BrianS]

22 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Honestly, Snow was the least of our issues under Rhule.

When they call to inquire about Chinn just hang up. Like damn y'all, our ass is still hella sore from that last trade deal reaming y'all gave us. Let us recover from that before discussing another deal with you guys.

Actually, if they call about Chinn I'd say "Give us back our first".

[CRA]

I still think it is odd that Snow and Rhule finally parted ways after all these years and he didn't follow him to Nebraska.