The Bears have requested and are expected to receive permission to speak to Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell, according to a league source.
Bevell is a former Badgers quarterback who also was the offensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings, where he helped Brett Favre have an MVP caliber season in 2009. Bevell, though, wasn't able to help develop former second-round pick Tarvaris Jackson, whom then Vikings coach Brad Childress believed could become a franchise quarterback. 
But Bevell has been a hot coordinator this year because of his work with Russell Wilson, another former Badger quarterback. But what makes Wilson's season all the more impressive is that he was a third-round pick, and he's performed brilliantly late in games.
The Bears, much to their chagrin, know that all too well; Wilson led a pair of 80-plus yard touchdown drives late in the game then led another long drive to set up a game-winning field goal in overtime.
The Seahawks defeated the Washington Redskins at FedEx Field 24-14, and they'll face the Atlanta Falcons next Sunday.
Because the Seahawks are still in contention, Bears general manager Phil Emery will have to travel to Seattle to interview Bevell. The window is Monday through the conclusion of the Divisional Playoffs. Since the Seahawks play next Sunday, Emery would likely need to conduct the interview before Bevell travels with the team to Atlanta.
It's not believed that a time and date have yet been set.
Darrell Bevell would be an incredible addition, he would most likely bring Tom Cable as well. As a a lifelong Seahawks fan it would be hard to see him go but I know not much will change for the bears offense until Cutler grows up... Shoving team members, dissing coaches and calling his own plays...
Sheesh, it's starting to look like Phil Emory is thrashing around looking for a head coach. I don't remember a team seeking to interview so many prospects. This is really starting to make it look like Emory has no idea what he's doing. I thought he'd have known who he wanted to hire, or at least had a very short list, before he fired Lovie Smith. This is very discouraging.
"Shoving team members, dissing coaches and calling his own plays..."
Are you talking about Peyton Manning? Or Aaron Rodgers? Or Ben Rothlesberger?
I can't tell. They all have much more of a track record with behavior of that type than Cutler. I guess you're just one of those ESPN guys who doesn't really watch the games and just drinks this "former-Bronco-jilted girlfriend" koolaid being served by Mark Schlereth and Tom Jackson.
Cutler, until this season, has had next to nothging in way of supporting cast. Matt Forte is good, but he's been dinged up and is not a good short-yardage back.
Please. Take your flame bait elsewhere. Maybe a Seahawks blog?
Actually I am a Bears fan too and I did see Cutler push Webb, walk away from Tice and watch him call his own plays and then not execute...not sure if the other qb's do these things, but they certainly don't pout!!! The nice thing about being a seahawk fan is we always support our team no matter what...bears fans not so much :(
His point is valid, every QB in the league has gone through moments like that. Manning almost got in a fist fight with Jeff Saturday on more than on occasion. Brady has a history of fighting with his OC's, Big Ben has had multiple OC's fired. You say Cutler calls his own plays? That's true he sometimes does. Like in the hurry up offense, which was the most successful part of the Bears offense. Or that 56 yard play to marshall against the Seahawks that got them in FG range.
What plays that Cutler called did he not execute. Be specific I was. I won't say the Seabirds have a bad fan base it's one of the best in the league, no question. But to say you always support the team. May I remind of the home opener iin Seattle in 2011 when Seahawk fans were openly booing Tarvaris Jackson. You didn't even give him a chance, the booing started as he was taking the damn field. As much as the Seattle fans love to talk about what great fans they are, the simple fact is this, you cheer when they win and boo when they get beat down. You can be really quite or really loud. Like remember when Kurt Warner and the Cards marched in there a few years back "Pin-Drop. You all act like great fans, but here is the truth, you have a loud stadium, it was built to be loud, you don't have magic yelling powers.
Let me put it ot you this way, the north end zone had metal bleachers installed to amplify sound, the roof and upper decks were designed to reflect sound back onto the field. The whole thing was designed to be like Husy stadium, that's your 12th man, that's your noise. But you all don't travel that well, you don't tailgate. The Bears have sold out well over two hundred consecutive home games. Your fans haven't even cracked 75. So please if you can't even sellout for 10 years in a row, spare us your lameness.
Let me lay this bit oh history on you oh great Seattle fan. Bear fans are the nfl, you think your great fans. We are historiclly great fans. If it was not for Chicago fans marching their sweet tootsies down to games in the 1919 their is no nfl, Halas would have gone under and pro football wold of died. Who paid for the Packers to be in GB? The Bears, who started the nfl? The Bears, who made all that possible? Bear fans selling out game after game.
Your right we are not the Seattle fans, we have been kicking ### for over a century. We don't have Kowtowing daddy warbucks giving us everything we want like you do. No we got Cruella DeVille, head of the McCaskey clan heading our organization. You think the McCaskey family loves football? They love money and are not what you would call fan friendly, they lie to us, they use us, they are more than happy to take from us and this city. When you llok at the Bears do you see a Bear on the helmet? No you see a C, do you know what that C represents? It represents us. So go look up at your blue and white flag with a 12 on it. Our team wears out mark.
Before your momma was a glint in your grandma's eye the Chicago fans marched to games. Two founding members remain in the nfl the Bears and the Cards and both are from Chicago. When the APFA went under it was the Bears that endured, why you might ask. Because we went to the damn games. Your welcome for the NFL. Your entire damn city is only 50 years older than the Bears.
You think your stadium is great and your fans are great? We don't sit in a stadium, we sit in a memorial, literally. And our fans, our fans are the voices of nfl history. We have forgotten more about football than Seattle fans have ever known. Our familys have been passing down stories, and histories to us for generation after generation. Our blood runs navy blue and our hearts burn bright orange. Seahawk fans? Ha! You all started showing up to games when you got a new stadium. You made some noise for 10 years and you think your great fans? The Bears can be good or bad, but they will always be the nfl and we will always be their heralds.
When the Treaty of Versailles ended WWI their were Bear fans, when the stock market crashed in 1929 their were bear fans, when Hitler was bombing europe there fans, before there were TV's there were Bear fans, before anyone ever put a damn light on a stadium there were fans. So you will show some damn respect when talk about our team, our fans and our QB, I don't give a damn who he is. When Brian Piccolo was lying in a bed dying and every fan in the nfl had him in their hearts or prayers or both what were Seahawk fans doing? When Walter Payton stepped on a field for the first time and for ever changed the game, what were Seahawk fans doing? When the Bears won their 8th NFL championship who was Seattle cheering for?
What have your fans done for football little miss 12th man? Don't speak to us of fandom, our fathers, fathers, fathers were Bears fans. Our latest team logo is older than your franchise. How many titles has your cheering gotten you oh great 12th man? Do you even have a rival? Great fans? Ha! Nobody has followed an NFL team longer than Bear fans. Go tell the dust of your greatness, the wind already sings of ours.
I thought Bevell was interesting , but after reading what his fan,Mommy Football, has to say, I figure anyone with a fan like that cannot be very good. I thought he was a possibility because the Bears re-signed a quarterback from Wisconsin, perhaps hoping he would emulate Wilson, from Madison. Now though, I hope Emery does not consider that connection.
"tell the dust...the wind...." Sounds like Ozymandias, king of kings.Decent poem, somewhat efficacious qute in this context.
It's not a poem, just a giant over the top post inspired by the narration from the movie 300. The last line was based on a greek poem. But the whole thing is only meant to be over the top and somewhat cheesy. Your lucky I didn't bring up the columns, or Halas, "They say Bear fans are decendant from Halas himself, Bold Bear fans give testament to this fact, are roar is loud and long" "the stone speaks of us, remember us it says, remember us, go tell the fans that pass stone by, here by bear fan law we lie."