Bears Fans Don’t Miss Lovie
November 19th, 2014
A Chicago Tribune columnist tried to frame Bears GM Phil Emery as some sort of Judas Iscariot who plotted to overthrow former Bears coach Lovie Smith.
It wasn’t that long ago — a handful of hours — when Bucs fans, per Joe’s unscientific poll, were not all that confident about former Bears coach and current Bucs coach Lovie Smith.
Lovie, you may recall, had a basement in suburban Chicago where he hatched his plan to lift the Bucs out of the cellar of the NFL. So far, not much has gone right.
Even though Lovie is the first and only coach of the Bears to bring them to a Super Bowl since Mike Ditka was fired, Bears fans, per Mike Mulligan of the Chicago Tribune, won’t be shedding tears of nostalgia when the Bucs play at frigid Soldier Field this weekend.
At least the Bucs got their act together on defense Sunday at Washington, producing six sacks and two picks of quarterback of for Robert Griffin III. Players said Smith showed them tape of Charles Tillman forcing fumbles and intercepting passes as inspiration to encourage takeaways. Maybe he will show them a tape of Jay Cutler throwing the ball to opponents to prepare them for Sunday.
Smith’s half-baked rebuild may produce enough to ruin an afternoon in Chicago, but the Bears’ season was spoiled long ago. Despite that, no one seems to lament the loss of Lovie.
Mulligan also seemed to not-so-subtly suggest Lovie was stabbed in the back by current Bears general manager Phil Emery, who Mulligan believes Lovie recommended for the Bears GM job.
As a result, Mulligan belives, though Bears fans won’t care who Lovie is coaching, Lovie very much wants revenge on the team that threw him into icy Lake Michigan after a 10-win season.
November 19th, 2014 at 7:48 am
Wow a ten win season, wouldn’t that be nice.
November 19th, 2014 at 7:51 am
Let’s not kid ourselves we won last week against a bad Redskins team. And Mike Evans looked great and I’m glad we have him on our team. Even though we are only two games out of first place the coaching staff is terrible. No one in Chicago misses Lovie for good reason and no one will miss him here when he is gone which can’t come soon enough.
November 19th, 2014 at 8:22 am
We’ll be saying the same thing 13 months from now. Worst part is we’ll be stuck with Lovie’s roster.
November 19th, 2014 at 8:25 am
“no one seems to lament the loss of Lovie”
Just not true…..small survey but I have 4 friends who are huge Bear fans and each one misses Lovie…
I’d like to see a survey or supporting data on that question….
You would say no one misses Schiano but that wouldn’t be true either.
Anytime you use words like no one, every one, always, never….you leave yourself open to question.
November 19th, 2014 at 8:43 am
Reminds me when the local media and brain dead Bucs fans were all delighted when they successfully ran Chucky out of town.
They very well may find that winning NFL coaches are hard to find.
Taken about six years for that concept to sink in around here.
Go Lovie. Given what he inherited he’s doing just fine.
November 19th, 2014 at 8:45 am
Remember when we fired a coach after two nine win season’s? Lovie was fired from Chicago because he had no answer for stopping the Packer’s. To be fair, neither does Trestmen.
November 19th, 2014 at 8:52 am
I’d be happy with 10 wins……IN TWO SEASONS COMBINED!!!!!!!
November 19th, 2014 at 9:16 am
Its like my Bear’s friend told me when the Bucs signed Lovie. He will keep the team even, but his team needs more talent to beat the other team. “he will never out-coach any one in the NFL and it will show against the better teams and playoffs!”
November 19th, 2014 at 9:36 am
even a blind sow can find an acorn
November 19th, 2014 at 10:26 am
Scotty in Fat Antonio Says:
November 19th, 2014 at 8:52 am
I’d be happy with 10 wins……IN TWO SEASONS COMBINED!!!!!!!
——-I guess that means you’re a big Schiano fan. He accomplished that in his two years here.
That certainly didn’t make me happy
November 19th, 2014 at 10:29 am
Realist, concur with your sources, Lovie won’t outcoach many.
Eric, you are correct with running Gruden. We’ve not garnered one shred of respect since. As far as Lovie doing fine? Err, can we at least win two in a row first?
November 19th, 2014 at 10:57 am
Joseph Mamma Says:
November 19th, 2014 at 8:45 am
Remember when we fired a coach after two nine win season’s? Lovie was fired from Chicago because he had no answer for stopping the Packer’s. To be fair, neither does Trestmen.
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Trestman can barely stop the Vikings. About the only team he’s successfully stopped consistently this season has been the Bears.
November 19th, 2014 at 11:06 am
“Go Lovie. Given what he inherited he is doing just fine.”
@ Eric
Wow I didn’t realize they legalized crack where you’re from. 2-8 is doing fine with a roster that was generally considered by almost every pro football analyst/talking head to be loaded with a fair amount of talent especially on the defense? I’d say unless Lovie can build upon the win in Washington and at the very least win 2 more games this year most Bucs fans will be saying we don’t miss “One and Done” Lovie after this season. I’m rooting for the guy to turn things around here, but so far I’m seeing a guy following Mike Shanahan out of the NFL (as a HC) if he doesn’t get the team playing better on a consistent basis THIS YEAR.
November 19th, 2014 at 11:46 am
@Biff Barker, Phil
Who the hell are you two clowns? We’ve had a joke of a coach ever since gruden left town and finally we have a veteran coach and your best play is to say that a winning with an all time winning percentage won’t be able to get this team right? And what if you’re wrong about this team in one or two years and we’re in the playoffs will you still be saying he socks if we don’t go deep into the playoffs or will you haters jump on the bandwagon. Fake ass bucs fans!!! Crying about what you want instead of dealing with what we got and calling the redskins bandage? Who believes the bucs could beat Dallas this year on their best day as big as their offensive line is? We beat a better team cuz they have the better record, they beat Cleveland we didn’t. In the NFL a win is a win. I hope your still here crying about who are coach is when the bucs have a winning record, stay consistent you turds
November 19th, 2014 at 12:08 pm
“One and done” Lovie?
Must have missed his super bowl team, and his NFC championship team.
As far as the great talent on defense, that was rock star propaganda. That’s how he got his nickname, going all over the media proclaiming how great he was.
Absolutely disastrous personnel when Lovie took over. 4-12. No playoffs since 07.
He is doing just fine. As Brooks said his defense has a learning curve and he doesn’t have the personnel to run it. But he will.
BTW what super bowl winning coach was available that we should have hired?
November 19th, 2014 at 1:15 pm
So i’m guessing the pre-built excuse for a win this week will be, “of course we won, its his old team” or is it “the bears are a bad team”
FOH.
Just like Lovie is stuck with Schiano’s?….or are you gonna conveniently blame that on Dominick instead?
Lovie will be here for 3 years. Go ahead and accept that from now.
This is the one question that no one can ever seem to answer. And responses like “Cowher and Dungy” don’t count.
Apparently, we let go of a future multi superbowl champion HC. You know, that same HC that is currently out of football right now…
November 19th, 2014 at 1:18 pm
@ Eric
Didn’t miss any of Lovie’s past accomplishments. Mike Shanahan actually won two Super Bowls, not just getting a team to one, and guess what…even with a 10 win season and playoff game he sucked enough to get fired. Lovie Smith does not have as good a past track record nor has he shown he’s as good a coach in his current stint in Tampa. Nothing will please me more than to eat my words and have Lovie prove me wrong, but to this point he hasn’t shown much as the Bucs HC.
November 19th, 2014 at 1:24 pm
@ celly
Well my answer would be they should have kept Schiano one more year and then determined his fate. Though we’ll never know I am pretty confident in saying that if Schiano were still the HC this year this team would most likely be near or in first place in the lame ass 2014 NFC South, and fans would be looking towards meaningful December football with a playoff berth. Instead we are in the cellar of the worst division in the NFL this year.
November 19th, 2014 at 1:24 pm
Lovie is like waking up for breakfast and realizing the only thing left to eat in the refrigerator is leftover mashed potato’s.
November 19th, 2014 at 4:36 pm
i’ve never felt Lovie could lead us to a superbowl. what i hoped for from him was to set up a respectable, competitive organization with a realistic window of contention. should he fall short a couple times with that group, we would have our pick of the best coaches out there to replace him and get us over the top. now i’m just hoping he doesn’t improbably make the job even less attractive than he found it and we will go from there