Visual proof that the Chicago Bears’ head coach search is out of control

The Bears’ social media department has been busy. And it’s all Chicago GM Ryan Poles’ fault.

Bears Twitter is well aware that whenever their team completes an interview with a potential head coach, their social team slaps together a graphic and throws it up on X, like they one they dropped right before the Divisional Round kicked off.

We have completed an interview with head coach candidate Brian Flores. pic.twitter.com/wrxMCigj4v
— Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) January 18, 2025

Flores is the latest victim, er, candidate to throw his hat into Chicago’s coaching ring—a choice that has some questioning Poles’ judgment. Y’see, Flores is a notorious quarterback hater, and ideally, the Bears’ next headman should, at the very least, not tell Caleb Williams that he sucks.

Y’all this is WILD! Brian Flores really TEXTED Tua telling him he “sucks” and texting him the night before a game saying “don’t blow this.” As these former players all said, that’s not what coaching tough looks like! #GoFins pic.twitter.com/CCo6EWHkfS
— David Gregg (@TheFindalorian) August 20, 2024

Throughout the seemingly endless process, social media has gleefully flamed the Bears’ decision-makers, telling them to make a decision.

It cannot be stressed enough how incredibly stupid the Bears coaching search process is. You don’t need to interview two dozen candidates just to say you “left no stone unturned.” This is how you end up with Mark Trestman because you think you are smarter than everyone.
— Matt Hoeppner (@matthoeppner) January 14, 2025

It's interesting that the Bears chose not to bring in other QB prospects on visits last year besides Caleb, but are interviewing 20 ppl for the HC job.

I guess it's different when it's a free for all, but bringing in Arthur Smith is like having Spencer Rattler on a Top-20 visit.
— Brendan Sugrue (@BrendanSugrue) January 13, 2025

The Bears are interviewing everyone with a pulse just to try and look like they are working hard. The problem is that the folks that are doing the interviewing are more clueless than most the unqualified candidates that they are bringing in! The Bears clearly do not have a…
— The OddsBreakers (@theoddsbreakers) January 18, 2025

A Picture Says a Thousand Words…and 2,000 Coaching Candidates

An intrepid Twitter user from Italy was so bemused by the whole thing that he fired up his Photoshop and did up a graphic that looks like it was pulled from an episode of Hollywood Squares.

I Chicago #Bears hanno fatto un colloquio, virtualmente o di persona, ad almeno 16 candidati alla posizione di head coach... Francamente trovo ridicolo un numero così alto di colloqui... La cosa sta sfuggendo di mano ed è controproducente sia per le squadre che per i candidati pic.twitter.com/UP0UJykitP
— Mako Mameli (@MakoMameli) January 18, 2025

For you non-Italian speakers out there, Mako’s tweet translates as such:

"The Chicago #Bears have interviewed, virtually or in person, at least 16 candidates for the head coaching position... Frankly, I find such a high number of interviews ridiculous... This is getting out of hand and is counterproductive for both teams and for candidates"

Regardless of the language—Italian, English, Esperanto, whatever—Mako nailed it.