When do you think the Bears will have a new HC?

They can't officially be hired while they're still in the playoffs but that doesn't mean an agreement can't be reached before their playoff run ends.  The Super Bowl is an entire month off.  Few team will wait that long without a commitment.

There would be no reason for allowing interviews with coaches from playoff teams now if those hiring can't reach an agreement in principal before that coach can officially be hired.  But if Pace hasn't named one by next week I think we can be pretty certain his guy is working with a playoff team.

Here's the playoff schedule for this weekend;

sports.yahoo.com/nfl/scoreboard/

So any coach from Minny or Philly still won't be eligible and if KC wins none of their coaches will be eligible.  Either NOLA or Carolina will be one and done.  We've only interviewed Wilks from Carolina and no one from NOLA has been scheduled that I know of.  So I doubt we'll have a new HC named next week.