NFL regular season complete, it's time to move into offseason mode for 18 of the NFL's 32 teams. Realistically, some of them have already done so -- especially those who have made changes at the head coach or general manager positions.

For a second straight year, the New England Patriots will be hiring a new head coach. Last year, the team parted ways with the greatest coach in NFL history, Bill Belichick, and hired Jerod Mayo as his replacement.

The Chicago Bears are getting set to interview a college football head coach for their vacant head coaching job. But not the one you might think. While Bill Belichick is an eight-time Super Bowl champion and widely believed to still want to coach in the NFL so he can surpass the late-great Don

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.

Hiring a head coach in the NFL is hard enough. Projecting how an assistant will do as a head coach is even harder. Yet that’s how the Bears have operated for almost the entirety of their 105-year history.