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Bears' coaching search fraught with history

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The first thing we — and they, meaning the McCaskeys, Warren, Poles and the others — all need to know is that this selection is not a singular choice. That this is not an isolated occurrence or circumstance. That it is connected to damn near all things before. That every post-Mike Ditka/Buddy Ryan coaching decision, either bringing in or letting go, made by the Bears is linked to the decision they’re soon about to make.

Until then, the Bears are making it difficult for those outside — and some inside, who will remain anonymous for the sake of being labeled snitches — of Halas Hall to (in the infamous words of a Philadelphia basketball organization that has yet, in selling the world their own B.