Tim Holt Hired by the Chicago Bears to Coach the O-Line

by Lester A. Wiltfong Jr. on Feb 8, 2012 4:41 PM CST in Breaking News

The coaching staff would appear set with the addition of Tim Holt, late of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, to coach the offensive line. Bears head coach Lovie Smith had this to say:

"He’s the perfect fit," Smith told ChicagoBears.com. "He’s an impressive guy; a young coach coming up through the ranks. I think he’s going to bring something to the room. He’s exactly what we were looking for at that position."

Holt has 17 years coaching experience, 14 in college and the last 3 with the Bucs. In 2011 he was their assistant o-line coach.

"He went to Tampa as an intern and did such a good job that they let him come back for training camp," Smith said. "They then kept him around for the entire season. He was sleeping on couches down there just to work. He spent three years down there working his way up, doing it the right way."

Bears offensive coordinator Mike Tice will continue to work closely with the offensive line.

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Hopefully Tice will be a solid mentor/overseer.

Don’t want all that progress that JWebb made going to waste now.

by Hawkeyes on Feb 8, 2012 4:45 PM CST reply actions

He's got the job.

Maybe, just maybe, with a full off-season of working with the coaches, working out at Halas Hall and he’ll get it. There’s nobody on the FA market available at OT that’s worth much. We have needs at DE and WR and CB that our 1st rounder should be used for. I really hope Webb has the best offseason ever. Jay needs him to.

@mike992

by Mike Mueller on Feb 8, 2012 5:19 PM CST up reply actions

If Webb can become our future LT

by showing us something this offseason, maybe Jerry Angelo did something productive after all.

by beartopia on Feb 8, 2012 5:21 PM CST up reply actions

All and all, this was another solid hire made with the coaching staff

I like the work he’s done with Davin Joseph among others. I don’t know as to what extent in the amount of involvement he had in Tampa with the OL, but they’ve been a solid group.

Jay Cutler is our QB, and I for one am proud of that

Follow me @EDuerrwaechter

by Erik Christopher Duerrwaechter on Feb 8, 2012 4:50 PM CST reply actions

Looks good

What matters is if he can work efficiently with Tice and the other offensive position coaches . We have our offensive coaching staff ladies and gentlemen!

by beartopia on Feb 8, 2012 5:20 PM CST reply actions

Lets see what Rosenbloom has to b*tch about this signing........

by C-Razzle on Feb 8, 2012 5:34 PM CST reply actions

Exactly

by jetcitybearfan on Feb 8, 2012 5:53 PM CST up reply actions

Rosenbloom will bring up that the Bucs sucked last year

And use that as an indictment of Holt. Watch, if he comments at all.

by themacattack on Feb 8, 2012 5:56 PM CST up reply actions

Dunno why you guys hate Rosenbloom

his articles are biting and funny.

by Gaak on Feb 8, 2012 9:40 PM CST up reply actions

Rosenbloom can come off as being negative

But he’s also a realist. Which some of the WCG gang takes offense to. My question is this: Have the McCaskey’s given us a lot of reasons to not be negative?

After all, here’s an ownership that has been perfectly content with mediocrity in Chicago for the past 27 years. Maybe Rosenbloom is just trying to call them out…

by JimmyMack on Feb 9, 2012 5:39 AM CST up reply actions

I concur.

That said, if you don’t like them, why do you read them? Seriously. Really, really. Why would you continue to read and comment on someone you don’t like? Cause, guess what? As long as you keep reading, they keep writing. Kinda the way things work. The more you bitch, the more popular they become. Think about it.

Above all; keep 'em guessing, never let them lose their sense of confusion.

by Just Dave on Feb 8, 2012 10:29 PM CST reply actions

Reply fail to Gaak.

Above all; keep 'em guessing, never let them lose their sense of confusion.

by Just Dave on Feb 8, 2012 10:30 PM CST up reply actions

See Bayless, Skip.

You're welcome.

by WellonDowd on Feb 8, 2012 11:50 PM CST up reply actions

You got it!

I don’t read his cr@p very often and I certainly don’t comment. Rosedoom is just a Bear hater and makes his living from those that are too.

Bobrem

by Bobrem on Feb 9, 2012 7:11 AM CST reply actions

I don't think that Rosenbloom is a Bear hater

I absolutely believe that he’s a McCaskey hater.

Look at it this way: if every writer blew smoke up our asses about the culture at Hallas Hall, then we’d all believe that Bears owneship was doing just fine, and there would be minimal pressure on Lovie to produce a winner. The bottom line is: Phillips and Lovie should have been let go, along with Angelo. Hanging all of the responsibility on Angelo alone wasn’t the responsible thing to do – it was a “cop-out”.

If this ownership would simply hold their management accountable, then guys like Rosenbloom wouldn’t have a leg to stand on. And it would shut him up, completely.

by JimmyMack on Feb 9, 2012 8:23 AM CST up reply actions