By now, a decision has already been made on the respective futures of Lovie Smith, Ron Turner and the rest of the Bears coaching staff. It’s just that I’m stuck at work right now, so unfortunately, I won’t be able to update this thing. Ah, see how I did that: I’m writing from the future! (more…)

John Mullin is certain his return is imminent; Bears fans: Not so much. Since the team made the conscious decision to become utterly unwatchable in Week 7, fans and media alike have speculated about the future of Lovie Smith and pondered over whom his successor might be should he get the axe. Oh, how fun! We figured the least we could do was make it easier for you to follow the craziness by introducing the Chicago Bears Head Coach Rumor Mill. (more…)

Well, that will take a little suspense out of the upcoming offseason. CSN’s John Mullin was just on Chicago Tribune Live and it appears, according to his “pretty high-up sources”, Lovie Smith will indeed be coming back to coach the Bears next year. Sigh. Surely, more to come … (more…)

I bet most of us felt like this fella after the Packers game.

I was a Lovie supporter after past seasons. I legitimately thought he was the right man for the job and Jerry Angelo was the problem. Now, both can go hop in a car to find a cliff as far as I’m concerned.  (more…)

Wanted to take a quick minute to run through the various coaching changes we could be looking at after the year. Dependent on how we finish the season, we could have a completely new coaching staff. I’ll run down the possibilities of Lovie and/or Ron leaving us and hypothesize on what will most likely happen. (more…)

Midway through the fourth quarter and the Vikings have a rather comfortable 30-10 lead over the Bears. To be honest, I’m not really in to the game, but from the little pieces I have picked up, the following milestones have occurred: Favre threw his 500th career touchdown pass, Cutler threw his league-leading 20th completion to a non-teammate, and for the third-straight week, Lovie Smith made a halftime phone call inquiring about the availability of the head-coaching job at Bethune-Cookman. (more…)

Honestly, all Bears fans would probably prefer the Super Bowl-winning, square-jawed head coach to the frustratingly stoic Lovie Smith. To watch the franchise painfully stagnate in mediocrity isn’t fun, but swapping head coaches isn’t the most important coaching change to make. Besides, Bill Cowher to the Bears isn’t likely to go down anyway. (more…)

So it hasn’t been the type of season everyone in Chicago had expected, you know, with the lofty expectations surrounding Jay Cutler and all. And yes, it is true that Cutler has particularly been error-prone while being watched by a prime time audience. But it doesn’t mean that NBC shouldn’t be allowed to put the whole mess together in one highly-edited, stylistic and dramatic three-minute presentation, does it? Oh, it does. (more…)

I, for one, am a bit tired of Lovie “Rex Jay is our quarterback” Smith. I believe after our Super Bowl run, Smith has allowed this team to horrifically underachieve. While he should not shoulder all of the blame (calling Mr. Angelo), he should deservedly shoulder some of it. From his confusing personel moves (tell me again why Ron Rivera still isn’t here), to his ‘aw shucks’ demeanor, there needs to be changes up at Halas Hall. I can’t be the only one who sees Lovie as a darker Dick Jauron. (more…)

Jay Cutler was supposed to be the Chicago Bears’ answer to the long-running quarterback deficiencies that, for so many years,  presumably hindered the franchise from winning for any real extended period of time. He was their Messiah, the all-time missing link to a Super Bowl-shuffle sequel.  But, now that the Bears have their franchise quarterback, they find themselves in the very unfortunate position of mediocrity. Well, at least, they’ve proven it wasn’t just the quarterback. (more…)

The 49ers have lost four in a row after starting 3-1; sounds like a great fit for our inept Bears, in what should be an exercise in futility for the season opener of Thursday night prime time games. I thought it was fitting that when Fox decided halfway through the third quarter of the game Sunday that the Bears were no longer worthy of national coverage, I agreed. Lovie’s defense probably has NFL Network wishing it could flex out of this gem. (more…)

Fans and sports writers may no longer be appreciative of his phlegmatic ways, but Lovie Smith’s players seem to like it. From the Tribune: “Smith’s monotone, sleep-inducing responses to questions that often frustrate the media actually seem to reassure his players.” No, that’s not backhanded at all. (more…)