John DeFilippo wouldn’t have signed on to be the Chicago Bears quarterbacks coach if he didn’t know who his pupil would be and he didn’t think he could get that player to play at a high level.
Flip wouldn’t have had trouble finding a different job than the one he ended up taking and, according to Adam Jahns on the Hoge & Jahns Podcast, he did have other options.
But he didn’t take them. He signed on to coach Mitch Trubisky and any other quarterback they might add.
There were two schools of thought when Flip was announced as the team’s new quarterbacks coach.