Pete Carroll, Mike McCarthy and Mike Vrabel are prominent in the Bears' coaching search. Their presence suggests the team's ownership may elevate the coach's authority.

For those seeking promising news about the Chicago Bears’ work-in-progress coaching search, the word out of Detroit is that Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson will get permission to partake in preliminary interviews this week,

Once again, history is repeating itself in Chicago as Poles appears set to lead a coaching search as Ryan Pace did before him.