I honestly have no idea what you're on about here. The Bears can't talk to anyone without formally requesting permission from their respective employers. Vis-a-vis coaching candidates, this week only, teams can interview guys currently working for the Seahawks, Packers, Pats, and Broncos. If you miss that window, you can't interview anyone who's currently employed by a playoff team until said team is eliminated. This presents a problem because the coaching search is a zero-sum game; if another team hires a coach, that's one less candidate available to the Bears. The Falcons are likely to move quickly on a coach because they already have a GM in place, and the Jets are taking advantage of this week to put together a book on Quinn, presumably so that they can move quickly once they have a GM in place. That being the case, I think it's a really bad idea for the Bears to be sitting on their hands this week when they could be knocking out preliminary interviews with guys like Quinn or Bevell or Clements or McDaniels or Gase, and I seriously cannot fathom why you would disagree, or what agents have to do with any of this.

I'd agree with you with if Emery was still in place. Appears like the Bears are looking to overhaul football operations so I'd make sure I hire the right GM 1st. Whichever coach gets hired he's going to get screwed the next two years anyways with the GM having to clean up the Emery mess.