Tag: Chad Morton

Bears promote OL coach Chris Morgan to run game coordinator

The Bears offensive line coach is getting a promotion for the 2024 season.

The Chicago Bears overhauled their offensive coaching staff this offseason, namely with the addition of Shane Waldron as the new offensive coordinator. But one holdover coach from the last two years is getting a promotion for the 2024 season.

Offensive line coach Chris Morgan is being elevated to run game coordinator, head coach Matt Eberflus announced on Thursday while meeting the media. Morgan has spent the last two seasons as the offensive line coach and has yielded positive results while working with young players such as Braxton Jones, Teven Jenkins, and Darnell Wright.

Morgan was one of two position coaches who remained with the team after the 2023 season, along with tight ends coach Jim Dray. He will still coach the offensive line in addition to working with running backs coach Chad Morton and assistant running backs coach Jennifer King on the run game. The Bears did not have a run game coordinator the last two seasons, though their rushing offense led the league in yards per game in 2022 (177.3) and second in 2023 (141.1 yards per game).

With the promotion of Morgan, the Bears’ coaching staff is nearly complete. Eberflus confirmed the team is still looking for an assistant defensive line coach after Justin Hinds left to become the Seattle Seahawks defensive line coach.

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Report: Bears to hire Jennifer King as assistant offensive coach

The Bears are set to hire Jennifer King to their offensive staff, making her the first female coach in franchise history.

The Chicago Bears added another coach to their offensive staff and made history in the process. The Bears are reportedly set to hire former Washington Commanders assistant running backs coach Jennifer King to the same position, making her the first female coach in Bears history. NFL Network’s Bridget Condon was first with the news.

King, who is the first full-time African-American female coach in NFL history, spent the last three seasons as Washington’s assistant running backs coach. She worked with players such as Brian Robinson and Antonio Gibson while on Ron Rivera’s staff. She also spent multiple seasons as a coaching intern, both for the Commanders and the Carolina Panthers, and coached receivers for the Arizona Hotshots of the Alliance of American Football in 2019.

Prior to her coaching career, King was a decorated player for the Carolina Phoenix of the Women’s Football Alliance. Playing quarterback and wide receiver, King helped the Phoenix to a staggering 75-17 record from 2007–2016, including one championship and seven division titles.

King joins a revamped Bears offensive staff led by Shane Waldron and will work with new running backs coach Chad Morton.

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Report: Bears to hire Chad Morton as running backs coach

According to Jason Lieser of the Chicago Sun-Times, the Bears are set to hire former Seahawks coach Chad Morton.

It seems the Chicago Bears had themselves a busy Tuesday working to hire offensive coaches. According to Jason Lieser of the Chicago Sun-Times, the Bears are hiring Chad Morton to be their running backs coach, which would round out the position coaches on the offensive staff. Morton is the third reported coaching hire over the last 24 hours, joining wide receivers coach Chris Beatty and passing game coordinator Thomas Brown.

Morton, like Brown, has prior ties to new offensive coordinator Shane Waldron. The two worked together for the last three years on the Seattle Seahawks, but his coaching journey started out in a place Bears fans know all too well, however.

After a productive playing career as a running back, Morton began his coaching career with the Green Bay Packers and was a special teams assistant from 2010–2013. From there, he joined the Seahawks in a similar role before moving to their offensive staff as a running backs assistant from 2015–2016. In 2017, he was promoted to running backs coach and trudged through a tough season where the Seahawks had a bottom-five rushing attack.

Those struggles didn’t last long, though. Seattle led the league in rushing the following season, averaging 160 yards per game, and had another top-five attack in 2019. In 2022, Morton became the Seahawks run game coordinator in addition to his role as running backs coach.

Morton helped get the most out of Chris Carson for a few seasons and developed younger talents such as Kenneth Walker and Zach Charbonnet. Now, he rounds out Waldron’s staff and will be tasked with further developing players like Roschon Johnson and Khalil Herbert in the backfield.

An overjoyed Kenny McIntosh could barely speak after the Seahawks ended his draft slide

This is just the best draft reaction for Georgia’s Kenny McIntosh.

New Seattle Seahawks running back Kenny McIntosh lasted much longer on the draft board than people expected.

Nobody expected the Georgia rusher to still be there at pick No. 237, but Seattle made the selection to bolster its running back depth behind 2022 pick Kenneth Walker and fellow 2023 pick Zach Charbonnet.

When Seahawks general manager John Schneider made the call to McIntosh that he’d finally been picked, the Georgia alum could barely speak as he reacted to the news his unexpected draft slide had finally ended.

He also talked with head coach Pete Carroll and running backs coach Chad Morton. He was so overjoyed while speaking with Morton that the two got disconnected on the phone briefly.

Plenty of Georgia players went in this draft class, and McIntosh had plenty going for him to hear his name called on draft weekend.

Even though he had to wait longer than expected, he lands in an ideal spot and gets to start his NFL career the right way.

Pete Carroll on $100k fine: ‘Sometimes you’ve got to get coached up’

Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll admitted his faults when discussing how he took his mask off during the team’s Week 2 matchup.

The NFL fined Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll $100,000 for violating league protocol by taking off his mask throughout the team’s Week-2 matchup against the New England Patriots.

Carroll expressed disappointment in himself and said he was particularly ashamed because he constantly had a coach in his ear about the situation.

“I had a coach who was reminding me about it throughout the game, Chad Morton was on my ass the whole night. He was reminding me the whole time,” Carroll said via the team’s website Tuesday. “I even changed masks at halftime to find one that worked better. Sometimes you’ve got to get coached up. Sometimes you have to admit that you screwed up and have got to do better.”

However, Carroll stressed that apart from his disregard for mask protocol during the game, the Seahawks players and coaches have taken COVID-19 very seriously, wearing masks whenever they are around each other in practice and in the team facility.

“We wear masks all day at practice, we wear them around the building,” Carroll stated. “I know it’s extremely important to wear masks. Sometimes you’ve just got to be reminded. Sometimes you’ve got to get coached up.”

Carroll will hopefully not repeat this mistake Sunday when the Seahawks square off against the Cowboys at CenturyLink Field.

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