The Chicago Bears have reached out to at least 13 general manager candidates and 10 coaching candidates for interviews. As they go through the interview process, we’re looking at each of the prospective hires.

Brian Daboll will interviewed for the coach opening Sunday.

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Title: Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator

Age: 46

Experience

Daboll has been the Bills offensive coordinator for four seasons and was the AP Assistant Coach of the Year in 2020 as he guided quarterback Josh Allen to a Pro Bowl season. In the last two seasons combined, Allen has thrown for 8,951 yards, 73 touchdowns and 25 interceptions.

Daboll also has been an offensive coordinator with the Kansas City Chiefs (2012), Miami Dolphins (2011) and Cleveland Browns (2009-10), was the New York Jets quarterbacks coach in Brett Favre’s season there and was an assistant with the New England Patriots for 11 seasons and five Super Bowl teams.

You should know

Daboll began his career as a graduate assistant at Michigan State on Nick Saban’s staff and rejoined Saban to be the offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach during the 2017 season at Alabama. He coached quarterbacks Jalen Hurts and Tua Tagovailoa, who stepped in during the national championship game to lead a second-half comeback.

Daboll is also interviewing for the Dolphins job to potentially work with Tagovailoa again.

Chicago connection

The Bills backup quarterback this season was former Bear Mitch Trubisky, who joined the team with the idea he could reboot his career. Trubisky, however, wasn’t needed much. He completed 6 of 8 passes for 43 yards and an interception and ran 13 times for 24 yards and a touchdown.

What has been said

“I hate to keep giving him so much credit because I don’t want anyone to steal him from me,” wide receiver Stefon Diggs told ESPN last January. “He’s a guy that knows what he’s doing, he knows the flow of the game, knows when to call what. We just trust him, whatever he calls, I’m running it. … He always has our back and I ain’t seen him miss yet.”

“He knows offense to the core,” former NFL executive Scott Pioli told the Bills website. “He comes from a family of coaching that’s founded in discipline, detail and the basics and fundamentals of the game. Brian was also in a lot of places where there was an emphasis put on accentuating the positive and limiting the negatives. He knows that their best football player is Josh Allen, and everything has to try to be centered around him and his strengths.”