After a 5-12, last-place season that included 10 consecutive losses and the in-season firings of coach Matt Eberflus and offensive coordinator Shane Waldron, the Chicago Bears are now embarking on a search to hire the franchise’s next head coach.

The NFL regular season wrapped up on Sunday and the playoffs began on Saturday, but that just means plenty of teams are officially kicking off their offseason. And several of the struggling ones are beginning with massive changes up top,

The Bears reached into their past for their latest head coaching interview. The team announced that they have completed an interview with Ron Rivera on Sunday. He is the eighth candidate to meet with the Bears, although Mike Vrabel is now out of the running because he’s accepted an offer to coach the Patriots.

Current and former Patriots weren’t surprised Sunday when news broke that New England hired former Patriots linebacker Mike Vrabel as the 16th head coach in franchise history.

Mike Vrabel best fit the attribute “leader of men’’ that the Bears are seeking in a head coach. That job description was so pointed, so specific that it left observers with the sense that former coach Matt Eberflus couldn’t lead men and, further, would have a difficult time leading animals, vegetables or minerals.

The New York Jets got a head start on their search for a new head coach last week by bringing in Mike Vrabel and Ron Rivera for interviews, but their

According to CBS Sports' Jonathan Jones, the Bears are set to interview former Carolina Panthers and Washington Commanders head coach Ron Rivera ... Titans head coach Mike Vrabel, former Seattle ...

Our Bears writers share their takes on the men Ryan Poles and company are likely to consider as the next head coach.

This will be the ninth head coach for Jones since he purchased the team in 1989 and fired the legendary Tom Landry, who coached the Cowboys for 29 years since the team's inception. Jones hired Jimmy Johnson away from Miami and they won a pair of Super Bowls together.

After a 5-12, last-place season that included 10 consecutive losses and the in-season firings of coach Matt Eberflus and offensive coordinator Shane Waldron, the Chicago Bears are now embarking on a search to hire the franchise’s next head coach.

For some of those teams, that will involve finding new head coaches and/or General Managers. Three teams fired their head coaches during the season and two more have been dispatched as of 9 a.m. ET on January 6.

A member of Mike Tomlin's coaching staff in Pittsburgh is a candidate to become the head coach of the New York Jets.