Last off-season, right after the Super Bowl, Lovie dumped his D-Line coach because they didn’t see eye-to-eye on Mark Anderson’s playing time. Lovie wanted Anderson on the field for 3 downs, his D-line coach insisted Anderson was best used as a situational pass rusher.

So, out the door goes the D-line coach, and Lovie names Anderson the starter before camp, without any competition. Alex Brown was unhappy and asked to be traded. The Anderson experiment failed all year, and by the end of the season, Alex Brown was starting again… and the Bears were playing much better defense.

Then, during this off-season, after Lovie never publicly admitted his poor decision on the position, Alex Brown got a contract extension.

Have you ever witnessed anything more a55 backwards than that? Lovie takes a team to a Super Bowl, grows an ego and gets a new contract… and begins to think he knows more than he actually does. We were bad last season in large part to Lovie’s ego-made decisions.

I can add to the list:

1. Devin Hester: The Bears have the greatest kick returner in the history of the game, and you know what Lovie decided to do last year? He thought he wad soooo smart, that he decided to NOT EVEN PUT HESTER ON THE FIELD for kickoffs in the opening day loss to San Diego, because he decided that the Chargers wouldn’t even kick to him anyway. Brilliant. Hey Lovie, in case you missed it, when teams opt to not kick to Hester, we get the ball at the 40 anyway.

2. Dusty Dvoraceck: With Tank gone, Tommie playing injured, and the depth chart filled with Darwin Walker and Anthony Adams. Dusty was a BIG piece of the puzzle last year, and they were counting on him heavily. So, they decided, not only would he start at DT, but they would also play him on special teams… where he blew out his knee in the first game of the year. Brilliant.

3. Danieal Manning: With Tillman and Vasher hurt, they moved Manning to CB, where he struggled more than anyone could possibly struggle on the football field. As a result, they became worse at not just one, but TWO positions at the same time: FS and CB. Meanwhile, while the Manning experiment failed for several consecutive weeks (even when Tillman came back), they had other CBs sitting on the depth chart: Ricky Manning Jr. (who they paid a big price for the prior year), and rookies Trumaine McBride and Corey Graham (who showed later in the year that they were capable of playing the position).

I don’t know about you, but I would elect to let CBs play the CB position, and safeties play the safety position. This whole mess was a disaster that could have been easily avoided. And when they finally corrected it, and played McBride, the kid looked great.

4. Garrett Wolfe: It took them 15 weeks to figure out how to use this guy. Note to Ron Turner and Lovie Smith: when you’re backed up at your own 1 yard line against the best run D in the league with two mammoth sized run stuffing DT’s (The Vikings Williams tandem), you don’t give the ball to the smallest guy on the field and tell him to run up the middle.

5. Josh Beekman: They drafted this kid to play Guard, and never even put him on the field. Even after Ruben Brown went down, they somehow decided to plug in the woeful Terrence Metcalf. Metcalf lasted just one or two weeks before they realized, yet once again, that he sucks. And still, instead of playing Beekman, they moved John St Clair (a friggin tackle by trade) to play guard, instead of Beekman. Unreal. And now, with Metcalf (who stinks to hell anyway) out with a banged up knee, they’re relying in an inexperienced Beekman, who could’ve gotten some valuable playing time last year if they ever chose to put him on the field.

6. The QB situation: regardless of who they started, they just had so much confusion internally, that it made them look like fools.

Rex was cuddled, and told all the sweet little things he needed to hear, even though they yanked the job from him anyway.

Everytime Brian Griese went to the podium, he said the wrong thing… because the team didn’t communicate internally. Then, they pinned the blame on Griese for every media fiasco they had.

And, after a long week because of the schedule, they finally gave the starting job to Kyle Orton… on a Wednesday, When he could’ve been taking snaps with the first team on the previous Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday.