Former Jets quarterbacks coach Matt Cavanaugh has been hired by the Bears for the same position.
Cavanaugh spent four years tutoring the Jets’ QBs. His contract was not renewed after this season.
In Chicago, Cavanaugh will get to work with Jay Cutler and under new coach Marc Trestman.
There will be speculation that Jets quarterback Tim Tebow could land with the Bears now. He worked with Trestman before the draft and with Cavanaugh in 2012 with the Jets, who are expected to release Tebow.
It is a fun idea, but highly unlikely that the Bears would want Tebow.
— Brian Costello
BUCCANEERS: Former Rutgers coach Greg Schiano must pay the school the $300,000 balance of an interest-free loan he got to build a multimillion dollar home in Piscataway, N.J., by Jan. 26.
Schiano, 46, who resigned in January to coach Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has been trying to sell the house since April and has cut the price twice, to $1.95 million from $2.3 million. The coach bought land from the university and was given the $800,000 loan from the athletic department in 2007 to build a house about two minutes from the school’s High Point Solutions Stadium.
Under the agreement, the school forgave $100,000 of the loan each season Schiano remained as coach, with any balance remaining when he resigned due one year later.
CARDINALS: After nearly 38 years in the business, at age 60, Bruce Arians finally is an NFL head coach.
Arians was introduced as head coach of the Cardinals, promising to build a team that’s “disciplined, fast and physical — accountable, no excuses.”
The man who went 9-3 as interim coach in Indianapolis after Chuck Pagano left to be treated for leukemia choked up when he talked about his family, saying of his wife “this is our 15th move.”
PANTHERS: Carolina has named quarterbacks coach Mike Shula as its offensive coordinator.
Shula takes over for Rob Chudzinski, who left tobecome the Browns’ head coach.
Shula, a former head coach of the Bengals, is credited with helping with the development of qarterback Cam Newton.
COLTS: A person familiar with the decision says Stanford offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton has accepted the same position with the Colts, where he will be reunited with quarterback Andrew Luck.