The Bears need to win the next 6 out of 8 games to even have a chance to get a wild card spot. Would you rather have the Bears rally and get a playoff spot or have them not make the playoffs for the 3rd consecutive year and have Lovie possibly lose his job? I don’t believe in Lovie and Co. running this team anymore. Lovie cannot even run his Tampa-2 scheme which he swears on to any degree of precision. I love the Bears and want them to succeed but many things happen for a reason. Hell, we’d still have Grossman under center had we won that Super Bowl!

I am with you I still love the Bears. While they don’t cover games in my area I will still find a way (thanks cpu)

As for Lovie, as much as I want him gone, I do not think it will happen. McC has already stated she will not pay him his contract and another coach too. So that leaves us with another year of him and his worn out Tampa 2.

Here is hoping Tommie Harris shuts up and plays his butt of to raise his trade stock (which still will not be much). Also, some more lucky late round picks in the draft. Heck Angelo does better with the late ones than early anyways.

But im going to be more excited next year with Urlacher back and these young rookies like Afalava and Knox with a year of experience and also Cutler building up chemistry with our WR

..that constantly underachieves from top to bottom. Regardless of how crushing the blows like last sunday are i’ll always come back for more because i love the Bears. Players change, coaches and records changes, ownership doesn’t change, i still stay with my Bears.

but that means some sort of change would have to occur. This change would have to be monumental given that the defense is simply awful. The defense is led by Lovie and while I do NOT believe his outward emotions make them play badly, his lack of motivation on them is evident. Lovie has not shown even the slightest propensity for change, in fact, quite the opposite. More than once, he has a tendency to keep a player at a position that can’t or won’t do the job long after it is obvious to the most casual observer they are not playing the position well enough to start; say Omiyale, Harris, Manning, Vasher. The Tampa-2 scheme does not fit the current roster as well as it did 3-5 years ago. While the entire staff, including JA, are to blame for this, the fact remains that it is simply not the scheme for this team at this time.

So now is the dilemma, what to do about Lovie. If you fire him now this season is obviously shot. Even if a “great” coach were hired, it would take weeks for him just to learn the players names. Further, the only realistic window to do this at all would be this Friday as the Bears have the longest span between two games left this season. Yes, the Bears might play well for a new coach for a game here or there, but it would likely be “feel good” wins after a shot at the playoffs was out of reach anyway. While I would prefer this scenario for a number of other reasons, it would not get at the point of your post.

Therefore, I think, to a player, the defense and offense need not to do the soul searching that Alex Brown, etc. have referred to, but a true gut check. Simply put MAN UP AND BEAR DOWN. I’d rather see Harris thrown out of a game for taunting someone who he drove back 3 yards. The point is, I think only the players can right this ship now. The coaches, IMO, are the problem and do not seem able to change. The dilemma becomes, if the players do play well, would Lovie get the credit and remain to the further detriment of this this team next year.