Chicago Bears: Franchise defining moments of the 2010s

6. The hiring of Marc Trestman

Nobody wants to talk about this who’s arguably the least liked sports head coach in the 2010s out of all the Chicago sports teams. However, the Bears hiring Marc Trestman will always go down as one of the worst moves in franchise history.

To begin with, Trestman was never qualified to be an NFL head coach. He had NFL experience on his resume but was a guy who always a positional coach or a guy who an offensive coordinator. Trestman would end up being a head coach for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.

The reason this is such a franchise defining moment is due to the fact that the Bears thought Trestman was the guy who could finally end up working with then-Bears quarterback Jay Cutler and turn the Bears into an offensive juggernaut. However, that never happened and Trestman would be fired by the end of the 2014 season.

The Bears would have an explosive offense in 2013 that would end up scoring 27.8 points per game but then would regress in 2014 and score just 19.9 points per game. At the same time, the Bears’ defense was depleted and was one of the worst units in the NFL during Trestman’s time with the Bears.

What likely ended Trestman’s tenure in Chicago was the 55-14 loss that the Bears took at the hands of Green Bay Packers on national television at Lambeau Field. While the Bears would win two games after that, they’d lose five straight games and finish the 2014 season at 5-11.