Thread: Am I the only sad that we are stuck with Lovie for another year, maybe more?

Originally Posted by jnastorer

There are reasons to want a coach gone. There are reasonable reasons to want a coach gone. In Chicago, it is his personality. All other things stem from this. I find that to be the stupidist thing I have ever heard, no offense to anyone who has problems with his personality. I am not saying that you are stupid for not liking his personality, I totally get that part.

I agree wanting him gone just because of his personality is stupid...

And wanting him gone in spite of this season and his overall record is equally stupit imo...

And just for the record, I don't fall into either of those categories...I completely disagree with the OP and I do support Lovie remaining the Bear's Coach...I may always have a love/hate relationship with Lovie, but if he keeps winning, I will learn to live with it ....

A Super Bowl will cure what ails ya...but I too am not a fan.
Take away Martz, and I'm sure he'd be gone.
He stood by Turner so long, he has permanent freezer burn.
Maybe they're a team of destiny this year, starting with that first game against the Lions,
then running into teams that have imploded - Dallas, Minny, Carolina, Buffalo, even Philly (at least one game),
just having three of those games going the other way, would change the offseason landscape.
I still say one playoff win should only equal 1 extra year.
If the sky opens up and grants them a Super Bowl win this year, then that deserves a 3 year extra,
but only 3 years, because if Martz parlays that in to a HC gig somewhere else,
I'm sure they this team heads back to mediocrtityville.

I still want Angelo gone no matter what.

Cowher had one Superbowl win in 15 years with the steelers. Bringing him in to coach would not be some miracle that would solve all problems. Learning a whole new system and new schemes would set the Bears back a couple of years imo. After years of Jauron and Wannsted Lovie is the best coach we have had since Ditka

I think that's pretty ignorant for anyone to believe Lovie's a lost cause. he's a young coach with a lot of promise. only been at it 6 years, and had a pretty good amount of success for only 6 years in.

you know what I don't see in fans anymore. Loyalty. I'm not talking about being a homer. I'm talking about seing the big picture, and cutting a guy slack on things he can Fix, and has shown he's willing to fix.

Even guys like Cowher, Belichek, Shannahan, Tomlin, you name it. Good and Great coaches have all had bad years, and made really really really dumb mistakes. why so hard on Lovie? What has Lovie done so bad he's beyond forgiveness, beyond the benefit of the doubt??...

People now days, from fans to just people in general are so quick to just say "forget that guy, or forget that person" after the most minute of mistakes, to even bigger mistakes.

maybe I'm not saying it the right way, or wording it to have it make sense to you guys the way it does to me... but I'm all about looking past mistakes, and trying to see down the road.

My biggest fear is pulling the plug on a guy just to have him turn around and snap out of it.

much like Hester... he struggled in EVERY facet even returns that everyone was ready to just flat out cut his Arse.

had we done that, how would you feel now? players slump, coaches slump, and I think Lovie's earned at least one or two more years to prove that 07-08-and 09 were more bad luck, and Injuries than bad coaching on Lovie's part.

He finally got the line up of coaches he wanted when he FIRST came here, and it shows he knows what he's doing, it show's he's willing to learn from the mistakes he does make, and he has the respect and admiration of the players the coaches and the managment, and they all buy into what he's selling, and that's about as a good a recipe for success as one could ask for...

but what I'm a saying.... this is BEAR country. Nobody's happy till everyone on the team is a HOF'r. from the coaches to the waterboy.

Originally Posted by BossK

Cowher had one Superbowl win in 15 years with the steelers. Bringing him in to coach would not be some miracle that would solve all problems. ...

Perhaps, but with the exception of one year, his teams did not embarrass themselves - teams knew they were going to be in a snobber-knocker fight with the Steelers.
Which means Cowher knew how to build competitive teams year in, year out, and you didn't hear every year "I'm happy with how our team looks", regardless of the product that got on and off the field.

I think JA is on the hot seat. I don't see how Lovie can be a scapegoat anymore. At least not this season.