Comments on: Lovie Smith regrets non-challenge, candidate for biggest coaching gaffe of the season

By: milly1842

milly1842 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:21:27 +0000

I was at the game, and they showed 2 replays on the big screen that cutler was clearly in. The crowd was livid at lovie. There’s no forgiving this one

By: Philtration

Philtration — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:12:03 +0000

Lovie is this bad every week.
He was this bad in the Super Bowl.
Halas never intended his daughter or grandson to run the team.
It was Virginia’s brother George Halas Jr. who was going to take over but he died and it all fell into the old lady’s lap.
She and her son Mike were born into the team and they have done nothing other than survive childbirth.
She likes Ted Phillips because he got the city of Chicago to pay for most of the renovations to Soldier Field (giving the Bears the smallest seating capacity in the NFL)
Phillips does not know a thing about football so he keeps Jerry Angelo around to run the show.
Angelo has no business running a team and got the job after the McCaskeys found him through a head hunter.
No bullshit.
They hired a consultant and they unearthed Jerry Angelo.
Angelo keeps Lovie around because he is also clueless and a real NFL coach would strangle him for the idiotic draft decisions that he has made. He is just another version of Dick Jauron.
Lovie is a so called defensive coach that wants the team to be a reincarnation of the Rams team that was all offense while he was there.
He likes undersized quick players because he is too stupid to realize that he is no longer playing on the carpet under the dome in St. Louis but in the grass, snow and cold in Chicago.
A finesse team where power is needed. He wants to drive a little sports car when he needs a 4-wheel drive truck.
This is the same problem he has with Cutler. They are running the wrong system for his talent.
Still trying to shove a square peg into a round hole.
This group of clowns should have been shown the door after last year but there is no one at the top that can make that decision but an 87 year old woman.

By: theposse

theposse — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:08:53 +0000

Has anyone even seen the play? It was close – too close not to challenge. But, it wasn’t a touchdown. No way the ruling on the field gets overturned.

By: OrtonsNeckBeard

OrtonsNeckBeard — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:50:10 +0000

Out with Lovie, in with The Chin.

By: winslow

winslow — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:43:32 +0000

Another example of a terrific coordinator who was promoted to a job that is beyond his level of competence.

By: Little Tommy

Little Tommy — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:33:32 +0000

It was real nice of Cutler to stand upright so he could get clobbered in there. Don’t they teach you (in high schoo or maybe even pee wee) to get low and get underneath all that oncoming humantiy??? He gets in and Lovie’s challenge/non-challenge is academic. YIKES. Besides, they’ve got Forte and they paid a boatload for Chester Taylor. Don’t we have a back that can get us a yard??? If not, kiss this season goodbye.

By: CliveRush

CliveRush — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:17:17 +0000

Bill Belichick has been asking the league to install a system that alerts the refs once the ball breaks the plane of the goal line. A camera on the goal line, sensors in the ball and ground anything, but do something to stop the need to review the play. If the ball breaks the plane a coach has no way of knowing and has to rely on the players or if he is lucky, a camera angle. The teams do not have to have a camera on the goal line to this day. Just plain dumb.

By: Little Tommy

Little Tommy — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:10:19 +0000

This guy is a buffoon! He stands on the sideline game after game with that same lost look on his face. Bring in The Chin!
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You’re right. He stands there and stares up at whatever he stares at. When was the last time we actually saw him TALK to anybody along the sidelines??? That stoneface lost look is starting to remind me of Dick Jauron. LOL. He did the same thing. Hopefully we’ll get the same disposition of this guy cause he’s truly clueless.

By: Little Tommy

Little Tommy — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:05:28 +0000

Try to be patient with Lovie. 5 or 10 more years, he might get the hang of the job. Right now, he’s rather clueless, as is the rest of the Bears organization!

By: Champ Kind

Champ Kind — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:51:19 +0000

More importantly, you also cost me my game in Fantasy this week, Lovie, you spineless %&#$. From a rushing TD to a Fumble is an 8 point swing.
Thanks a lot.

By: NationalFelonLeague.com ©

NationalFelonLeague.com © — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:50:36 +0000

Another Dungy protege. Stand on sideline and pretend like you know what you’re doing. Caldwell – the Silent Man – another wonderful protege listening to his IPod during the game.

By: JimmySmith

JimmySmith — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:59:01 +0000

Technically you are correct, it was the biggest coaching gaffe of the season. All the way up to the Sunday night game when Clueless Col Klink let a Packer’s TD stand due to a non challenge.
The difference is that the Bears are in first place and could afford a gaffe at this stage of the season, the Vikings are struggling just to win a few games and could not afford Klink’s sheer stupidity, even at the $4 million salary . Ziggy must have a lot of money because he is paying his QB $20 million to throw 10 INT’s so obviously performance is not relative to the salaries he pays.

By: esox66

esox66 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:53:53 +0000

the best weapon the Packers, Vikings and Lions have is Lovie Smith….although it will never happen, NOW is the time for another NFL franchise in Chicago.

By: dscjmc

dscjmc — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:38:33 +0000

This guy is a buffoon! He stands on the sideline game after game with that same lost look on his face. Bring in The Chin!

By: 757

757 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:21:41 +0000

“Lovie can take 2nd Place. Runner Up. Miss Congeniality. The biggest coaching gaffe of 2010 is Jerry Jones allowing Haystacks Calhoun to continue to “coach” the Dallas Cowboys. That’s a combination head-scratcher/butt- scratcher if ever there was one….”
I thought you were going to bring up the genius play at the end of the first half against the Skins…not taking a knee, losing the ball for a touchdown the Skins way…..

By: bmckay

bmckay — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:17:31 +0000

This is Lovey covering up for an assistant coach. Not to lessen his level of incompetence, but it should at least warrant a mention when you pretend to know what is actually behind his comments.

By: stunzeed2

stunzeed2 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:13:08 +0000

Even if they would have scored; they would have eventually lost anyhow…..that’s how bad Cutler was.
Water under the bridge; Skins’ are 4-3 and could be on top of the NFC East if the Failboys somehow get the stars to align correctly and beat the Giants.
But they won’t.

By: Trojohn

Trojohn — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:07:27 +0000

Don’t you all know by now that INTERIM Coach Lovie Smith listens to elevator music in that headset he wears on the sideline? Reason number infinity why Lovie Smith, Jerry Angelo and Ted Phillips (aka Curly, Jerry & Moe) MUST be fired at season’s end.

By: skinsfan703

skinsfan703 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:06:16 +0000

It’s not Lovies job to decide to throw the challenge flag… The coaches upstairs who have TVs with all angle replays, they are supposed to tell lovie to throw it so they messed it up

By: Tim Couch says

Tim Couch says — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:53:20 +0000

Haynesworth knifed through there and blew that sh!t up. Kreutz was all rolling around on the ground looking for a weight to hit Haynesworth with since that was the only way he was going to stop him. I can’t blame Lovie for not wanting to waste a challenge on it.

By: iusedtobeteddybayer

iusedtobeteddybayer — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:52:17 +0000

Can’t count on Cutler to advise; with a Vandy education he was 22 befoe he knew/consulted his medical problems.
Don’t we all know people too smart for their own good? Bear fans do.
Again a grown man with bangs…I’m just sayin’…

By: jesse_james1

jesse_james1 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:44:46 +0000

looking forward to when the fudge packers come to Detroit yeah baby show me the money

By: Switch1

Switch1 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:42:57 +0000

Stop crying Rosen-dweeb, Because you and Flubbio pick the Redskins to lose every week and it doesn’t happen. And to think you have a fanatsy football show, heh, glad I don’t listen to your picks~

By: SkolVikings

SkolVikings — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:40:36 +0000

I could not believe Lovie wouldn’t challenge that goalline push. Haynesworth made a ridiculous play on that, but replays showed Cutler pushed the ball across the plane. It would have been reversed on replay. Lovie’s assistants let him down there by not buzzing him to throw the challenge flag.

By: theMistofer

theMistofer — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:36:23 +0000

Could be worse…Norv could be the bears coach

By: Plankshelmet

Plankshelmet — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:36:19 +0000

71 days until the Lovie/Angelo era comes to an end. Angelo is the real problem but at this point they both need to go.

By: AFCroxNFCsox

AFCroxNFCsox — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:32:14 +0000

This just makes up for the Calvin Johnson gift in Detroit. Get over it.

By: BillW

BillW — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:31:09 +0000

Bordner – that’s how bad it’s gotten in Chicago. I’m starting to want the Packers to win the division.

By: ringworm

ringworm — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:27:16 +0000

At least we know now that the Steelers didn’t get their gratuitous call at the goal line because of some coaching equality decision by the NFL
So leaves me to ponder, is Lovie as mentally incapacitated as the same named character on Gilligan’s Island? For GAWD SAKES man, if you don’t want the gig in Chicago any longer JUST QUIT!!!

By: steve grogan

steve grogan — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:26:32 +0000

MM in GB belongs with Lovie and Chilly. He is horrible.