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Hire Pete Carroll? Someone half his age? It all depends what the Bears want in their next head coach

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Pete Carroll turned 73 in September.

Don’t tell that to anyone who’s played for him recently.

“He runs more than we do,” Seahawks linebacker Derick Hall, who played for Carroll last year, told the Sun-Times on Thursday. “He comes out on the field and he’ll be running 100[-yard dashes] and throwing deep balls.

“You don’t see too many people that age who are able to have that athleticism, that kind of physical structure to themselves — and to be able to go out and do it on a consistent basis, like he does every day coming to work.