Great write up, thank you!

Lovie gets a B because I think he is doing a great job calling defensive plays this year overall.

Ron Turner gets a flat out F. The guy is awful and really the root of our offensive woes for the past several years.

Count me as a guy who thinks Lovie has actually done a decent job. Here’s a guy who’s calling the defense and coaching this year. He’s having to coach a team without his second best player on defense, and coach 3rd stringers on defense. Deal with a bad O-Line and new parts on offense. Yet I still I feel like the defense has played decent up to this point of the season.

I heard all week that the Bears were playing a superior team in the Falcons and in my opinion the Bears played well enough to win. Were there mistakes? Yes. But I feel they still had a chance to win and the mistakes that cost them the game weren’t all coaching moves. I wonder if the Atlanta fans think Mike Smith was out coached seeing how they only scored 21pts and they totally got away from running that successful 2-minute offense.

The Bears are 3-2 and to me have a good chance to get to 5-2 maybe even 6-2 if they handle business over the next 3 weeks which gives them a good chance to be a playoff team this year. Lovie went to a Superbowl, went 5-11 and 9-7 in the last 2 seasons. All considered, I think the guy is doing a good job.

That was supposedly caused by confusion over Pisa being out of the game. Two guys thought they were supposed to be on the field. Either way, that’s on Dave Toub’s watch, and Toub is considered one of the best ST coaches out there. This was an anomaly, and I don’t think it should be used against the staff.

Anyway, that ex-Bears list just seems like cherrypicking to me. I don’t mean to anything negative about you by saying that, SM. I just think that the situations and circumstances need to be discussed when talking about those players. A lot of them had no use here and a lot just had to be let go (Benson, ahem). Bradley was NEVER healthy, either. To be blunt, that’s a mediocre list of players who have found better situations to be in (not necessarily better teams, though).

Anyway, I give Lovie and the staff a B. I think a lot of us fans think this team is more talented than it is and think the coaches don’t factor much into the success at all.

Look the Bears lost a close game because of miscues and mistakes. It happens. I think that everytime we lose a game, everyone is way to quick to cry doom and gloom.

The facts are simple. The Bears have won more games in the last few years than any NFC Team other than the Giants. After the last couple of games, everyone was putting Lovie on a pedastal because of his halftime adjustments.

I agree that coaching plays a significant role in how a team performs, but the players make much more of a difference. It was not coaching that made future Hall of Famer Orlando Pace false start on a 4th and 1. It was not coaching that made Cedric Benson get busted for 2 Alcohol related incidences. It was not coaching that shredded Marc Columbos knee.

Of all the examples that you have listed, I don’t see a single one that relates to coaching. I do personally think that our coaches are not the best at player development, but I think that the assitants brought in this year should change that.

I think that the problems with our Defense being out of position have more to do with the adjustments made by our on field signal caller. We are on our third middle linebacker with Nick Roach and he does not benefit from the wealth of on field experience that Urlacher and Hillenmyer offer. Give him some time. It will be worked out.

I personally feel that we have the best Special Teams Coaching in the league. I think that Marinelli will prove his worth on the D Line. The rest of our coaches are not necessarily the best, but more than adequate.

Orton- has 2 elite receivers he can toss the ball 5 yards to and go big and an awesome D
Jones- was excellent here, only reason we tossed him is because Benson whined
Benson- just didn’t seem to give a spit for some reason.
the 3 WRs I think we may legitly have a problem at that position..plus you have to remember we haven’t had a true QB to throw to them
Harris Colombo and Polite were all tough losses..but I guess the point is, the specific players who did well elsewhere had reasons in some way…the thing that does concern me is how our D gets blown away by the no huddle..this happened in the preseason against the bills as well..people said it was because they had an extra game to prepare..well this Falcons game says something far different about their prepping for it now.

When Marty Schottenheimer was coaching the Chargers, current Falcons offensive coordinator Cam Cameron held the same title in San Diego with Schottenheimer. The O-line excelled at beating on the opposing teams’ defense so that they wore down in the 4th quarter, and the execution was crisp.
Now compare essentially the same players under Ron Turner’s brother Norv; San Diego does not execute plays nearly as well as they did under Schottenheimer/Cameron. They are no longer a serious contending team.
I can’t find a better example of the difference in coaching than that.
 The Bears don’t use the full extent of their personel. For example; Not only was Lance Louis an offensive lineman in college, but played tight end as well and runs a 4.75 40. Here’s a goaline power package I considered (before Willie Gaines was released): Willie lined up in the fullback position, Olson lined up on the right side of the line, L. Louis lined up on the left and A. Peterson or Forte in the tailback position. Or Louis and Gaines could swap places. Either way, that’s a lot of size in the offensive backfield. The play could go power left or right…or with Cutler faking the handoff to go power left or right..and then bootleg the opposite direction; Easy score.
Turner has no creativity when it comes to playcalling.

maybe the problem is with our strength and conditioning coaches.
3 LBs already have gone down this year
mike brown was always injured
APs hurt
ole dusty has never been able to stay healthy
urlacher hasnt shed a block since he hurt his back
I know all teams have injuries, but i dont think its all sheer luck.

Offensively, we are getting killed by Turner. That guy is useless and I question his play calling almost every down.

Almost everyone is forgetting our D is w/o the man in the middle. W/o his leadership on the field, it’s no question why we aren’t producing what we should and why we are giving up stupid crap like the 12 man call and the uncontested screen.

I think Briggs needs to step up…slap the DBs around, and then challenge the O to keep up! That’s Bear football.

HC = C = Lovie’s meh, no high, no low, not much of anything. Generally win when we should, lose when we should, rarely a blowout either way.
OC = D- = Unimaginative, opponents seem to know the play 80-90% of the time
O-line = D- = Not much to get creative with on the O-line but still a lack of performance, definitely not good enough to keep changing players positions
WR = B = doing a good job turning our young receiver’s into performers
QB = D = Haven’t really seen improvement in any QB, they are what they are when they get here, outside of normal learning through repetition/game experience

DC = B = Lovie gets the B as DC, Babich gets an F since he still has the empty title
LB = B+ = Babich does a good job, Roach is making some mistakes but taking over MLB without a preseason to prepare isn’t smooth and easy, turns out a lot of good LBs
DB = C = …not much to say about a C here
D-line = A = Line coach is Marinelli’s perfect coaching position, possibly DC as well but the Rod+Lovie combo is doing fine as is

For all the seasons before this, he had two retards at QB. And yes, Kyle Orton was a retard here.

Now, his QB has to rush the ball just he doesn’t get gangraped by the defensive line.

Imaginative, my keister…