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The Chicago Bears did the expected.
Last month at their dual press conference following Matt Eberflus’ firing, Team President Kevin Warren said that general manager Ryan Poles would be the team's lead voice in the search for a new head coach, and that appears to still be true. There was some uncertainty for a while, but it was announced yesterday that Poles would address the media from Halas Hall at 10:00 a.m. CT today. So unless there's a clusterflus-like swerve on deck, Poles isn’t going anywhere.
There’s been consternation among some that keeping Poles would prevent them from hiring certain head coaching candidates, but odds are that all those conversations have already occurred through back channels. If Chicago’s top choices were hoping to get hired along with their own general manager, then that’s not apparently something the Bears were willing to do.
If the Chicago Bears stream the presser, we’ll share it here.
In the coming weeks, we’ll cover all the head coach rumors and reports, which are compiled in our news and rumor tracker here. We also have candidate primers, which you can find here, here, here, and here.
For a deep dive into all of Poles’ transactions during his time in Chicago, Dan Durkin had an in-depth three-part series you can find in the links below.
