OSS: A Family Affair

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HAHA!

Nice one!

by Lester A. Wiltfong Jr. on Feb 10, 2010 1:32 PM CST reply actions

Funny! Rec'd!

Some days it's not worth chewing through the restraints - T-Train.

Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity. And I am not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein.

by Timothy Hockemeyer on Feb 10, 2010 1:54 PM CST reply actions

if a father can't help his son,

WHAT’S THIS WORLD COMING TO???

by Hatchetm on Feb 10, 2010 2:03 PM CST reply actions

Resume Booster

Lovie is probably just getting his son an NFL level job so that he can use it in the future. He is not the first NFL coach to get his family on the payroll…and he won’t be the last.

The position his son is in is more of a learning position anyway. I’m not upset about the move…if they hired him to be DB Coach or D Coordinator then I would have an issue, this is realatively harmless…probably why JA/TP/McCaskeys signed off on it.

Unreasonable people make life difficult...

by WisBearsFan34 on Feb 10, 2010 2:15 PM CST up reply actions

they could've picked better timing to announce it.

by Hatchetm on Feb 10, 2010 2:16 PM CST up reply actions

Lovie wanted his staff completed by the Super Bowl and it was

Unreasonable people make life difficult...

by WisBearsFan34 on Feb 10, 2010 2:22 PM CST up reply actions

i take it you don't work in PR?

by Hatchetm on Feb 10, 2010 2:28 PM CST up reply actions

No...but as stubborn as Lovie has been...at very least he hasn't back tracked on his word too often.

Goals when hired:

Beat GB – check

Win Division – check

Win Super Bowl – half check, but that’s not too bad.

Rex is our QB – really did he have to say that

We get off the bus running – yep we know…

I really think that Lovie for all of his shortfalls takes pride in doing what he says he’s going to do…even if it is not the easiest or right thing to do…

Unreasonable people make life difficult...

by WisBearsFan34 on Feb 10, 2010 2:40 PM CST up reply actions

oops

before the Rexy is QB there should have read “Since SB 41”

Unreasonable people make life difficult...

by WisBearsFan34 on Feb 10, 2010 2:42 PM CST up reply actions

like when he said he'd be open to a DC

with new ideas?

by Hatchetm on Feb 10, 2010 2:45 PM CST up reply actions

If it was in his scheme...

Listen I don’t pretend to be Lovie’s bigest supporter…in fact I think he has done an average job since his hire. There have been some extraordinary moments in his tenure, but overall…pretty average. But there are by far worse coaches in the NFL who have coached and who are still coaching today

I think when the talking heads held the press conference in January, I think it was obvious that the “change” was going to be on the offense…and that Lovie who stated his scheme was not going to change, had Fewell in mind for DC, and that it was probably ok’d by JA & TP…

Unreasonable people make life difficult...

by WisBearsFan34 on Feb 10, 2010 2:55 PM CST up reply actions

How does he get a half check for losing the Super Bowl?

That’s like giving medals to all the participants because they tried hard.

I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule. -Randal Graves

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by Kev H on Feb 10, 2010 2:45 PM CST up reply actions

30 other teams would have loved to get a half check that year...

How many teams haven’t been to the Super bowl in a decade, two decades, at all???

Unreasonable people make life difficult...

by WisBearsFan34 on Feb 10, 2010 2:49 PM CST up reply actions

I'm not debating that other teams wouldn't like to be in the Super Bowl

But if the goal is winning the Super Bowl, and you don’t win the Super Bowl, how do you get half credit?

I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule. -Randal Graves

Writer at windycitygridiron.com -/-I http://www.twitter.com/kdoggers

by Kev H on Feb 10, 2010 2:53 PM CST up reply actions

It's like in grade school

When you showed your work…had the right process, but screwed up the long divison…your teacher still gave you partial credit :-)

I know by definition a half check is like being “sort of pregnant” But if, and I know it is a big if, Rex’s intersception was called back by an offsides penalty, or Mushin would have actually pulled the Colt out of bounds at the 30-whatever yardline, and the Bears won SB 41 Lovie would be considered the next best thing since Ditka.

All I’m saying is before we gather the angry mob, sharpen our pitchforks, light our torches, and head to Halas Hall, let’s take a deep breath and look back to the Bears pre-Lovie and ask is it really that bad right now???

I know it’s not perfect and we’ve lost games that we should have won…but I’m not quite ready to say the Mayans predicted the outcomes of the last three seasons. If Urlacher wouldn’t have gone down in the first game of the year I think the season would have looked different too.

Unreasonable people make life difficult...

by WisBearsFan34 on Feb 10, 2010 3:06 PM CST up reply actions

How many coaches have sucked as badly as Lovie

and still have their jobs? Also, he’s was the highest paid coach until Shanny signed with the Redskins. Why is mediocrity still rewarded?

"The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players." -Don Coryell, ex-San Diego Chargers Coach

by propheteer on Feb 10, 2010 4:58 PM CST up reply actions

You forget "Trust me." When he fired Rivera.

If you can't laugh at yourself you must not be very funny.

by Just Dave on Feb 10, 2010 3:37 PM CST up reply actions

I think the jury is still out on that one...

Rivera was and will always be a great Bears player…as far as a coach either with the Bears or the Chargers…I’m not quite sure.

I personally feel that he hasn’t proven much in San Deigo, and if Lovie gets all the blame for the defense scheme…how can Rivera take all the credit. I do think Rivera was a better fit than Babich…however I don’t think Rivera was the total reason for the success of the Bears defense during the superbowl run.

If the D comes out this year and is play lights out and SD’s D falls flat won’t that make Lovie’s “Trust me” look a little better…but if our D falls flat and SD’s D is a world beater…then yes I will concede to your point…but we will have to see what the final outcome is…

Unreasonable people make life difficult...

by WisBearsFan34 on Feb 10, 2010 4:07 PM CST up reply actions

All I know is

in 2006 the Bears played more Tampa 2 than the last 3 years

by Lester A. Wiltfong Jr. on Feb 10, 2010 4:19 PM CST up reply actions

So what you're saying is...

Lovie is too open to new ideas in the last three years and he should be more stuborn and stick to his guns like he used to :-)

Unreasonable people make life difficult...

by WisBearsFan34 on Feb 10, 2010 4:23 PM CST up reply actions

It's because

in ’06 they had a very good pass-rush without having to blitz. Now, they have to blitz just to breath on the opposing QB. To add, Vasher had a career year as a rookie because of the D-line.

"The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players." -Don Coryell, ex-San Diego Chargers Coach

by propheteer on Feb 10, 2010 5:00 PM CST up reply actions