(Update: Todd Bowles interview for Chicago Bears coaching vacancy gets moved up from Saturday to Thursday!)
It’s been all quiet on the Midwestern front when it comes to news regarding the Chicago Bears coaching search. The madness of King George McCaskey mandates it so. All NFL teams employ a corporate culture of secrecy; the Chicago Bears just take it up a notch.
And especially so during coaching search time. Here’s what we know. Rex Ryan is not a candidate. Mike Shanahan is the most logical candidate.
And here’s our master list of Chicago Bears coaching candidates. So who’s the favorite? Longshots? Odds?
MyTopSportsbooks.com as Bowles listed as the favorite, followed by Quinn and Marrone. Take a look:
Chicago Bears
Todd Bowles (Arizona DC): 3/1
Dan Quinn (Seattle DC): 4/1
Doug Marrone (head coach of the Bills in 2014): 8/1
And what will now become of “Painfully Awkward Rob Lowe?” The man they just expunged. Here’s what the sportsbook says
Marc Trestman
NFL OC: 4/1
NFL QB coach: 4/1
Unemployment: 8/1
Television: 15/1
NFL head coach: 22/1
Of course, the Chicago Bears have competition for the services of Marrone. Here are the casino’s odds on what the following recently fired coaches will do next:
Doug Marrone
NFL head coach: 1/3
NFL OC: 5/1
NFL DC: 5/1
Television: 40/1
Unemployment: 40/1
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