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We are a few days away from the Bears officially starting their head coaching search, here are some names to watch.
The Chicago Bears head coaching search is about to heat up. We will start hearing reports of who the Chicago Bears will request to interview as they start reaching out to teams. Many Bears fans set their sights on Ben Johnson, but the Bears will do an extensive search that includes several names.
Here’s an early look at candidates I expect the Bears to interview (please note: this is not the full list; I expect a couple of additional names as well).
This is a near-lock that the Bears will request an interview with Johnson and I expect Johnson to accept that interview. I think there’s an outside chance that, depending on what jobs are open, Johnson may only take two interviews: the Bears and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
I expect Johnson to be the top candidate for both of these franchises. If I had a lean right now, I think Johnson would end up in Jacksonville but the Bears could absolutely woo Johnson to Chicago with a large contract and knocking the interview out of the park.
I think the Chicago Bears will be more interested in Vrabel than he will be in the Chicago Bears. I think Vrabel will be looking for an organization where he runs football operations or is at least in tandem with the general manager running football operations.
If the Bears keep Ryan Poles and keep their traditional structure, Vrabel would report to Poles, something he would not want to do. Vrabel also prefers to report directly to ownership, and he may not be interested in reporting to Kevin Warren which I expect to be the case regardless of who they hire.
If Pete Carroll wants to interview for the Bears head coaching position, the Bears should absolutely bring him to Halas Hall. Carroll could provide plenty of insight to the Bears franchise on how to properly run an organization as he did that successfully in Seattle for several years.
I would be surprised if the Bears went with a coach north of 70 years old to lead the franchise, but I do expect them to interview him, and I would take it a step further if Carroll is interested in taking some sort of special assistant position in the front office, the Bears should hire him, just not as the team’s head coach.
Glenn has been gaining popularity in NFL circles for the last couple of years and plenty of people believe he has the makings of an excellent future head coach. Glenn has a good demeanor, he has that moniker “a leader of men” and he’s done some good things with the Lions’ defense.
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