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If the Bears fire Lovie Smith, these are the two names near or at the top of my wish list. Tom Clements and Dom Capers.
Sure, they would be rookie HCs, but there is no denying they are smart and know what they are doing. I would take them over any of the retreads that have been fired for failing at their current location.
Dom Capers was the HC of Carolina when they were an expansion team, I believe. I'm not a big fan.
I think the Bears are considering THIS guy at the top of their list. Virginia apparently dated him on one point many years ago:
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/i...Sa7u-BgYzTAoOw
Capers was HC of both the Panthers and Texans when they entered the league and spent roughly 4 years with both. Outside of that miracle season in 1996 when Carolina won their division and made it to the NFC Championship I can't think of any other success as a head coach. Might be easy to just label his as just a defensive specialist.
clady and liget pay them the next year
Dom Capers is very overrated. He's heralded as a great defensive mind and a genius. Last time I checked, the Packers defense hasn't been good. They make a few flashy plays that get attention but aaron rodgers covers up a lot of things.
Tom Clements doesn't have enough on his resume to have me convinced he would be good. Maybe he has been important in the development of Rodgers and Flynn and he's not the only one responsible for that. That's 2 players; there are 53 players on a team that need to be managed on top of the coaches. Not sure I'd be behind that choice 100%.
I've considered who I'd hope gets interviewed or targeted in the case of Lovie getting fired, which I don't think is the best option but I see the reasoning behind it if we don't make the playoffs.
This is the list I came up with.
Offensive Background
David Shaw Stanford <-------Preferred
Brian Billick
Bill O'Brien PSU
Greg Olson JAX
Defensive Background
Mel Tucker JAX <-------Preferred
Vic Fangio SF
Perry Fewell NYG
Mike Zimmer CIN
Steve Spagnuolo NO
no to Capers.
want the next great coach - whoever this will be.
We still have to pay Lovie next year so you all know what that means, he will be back.
No. If they finish the year 8-8 or 9-7 and miss the playoffs, no way he comes back. The Bears are unlikely to fire a coach with 2-3 years left on his contract, but they aren't going to have the same aprehension about paying a guy for only one year. Besides, when Emery was hired, he was told "Lovie is the coach in 2012," but there were no guarantees beyond that. I don't think Emery was itching to fire Lovie and bring in "his guy", if he has one, but I also think that he isn't going to stand by after another late season collapse and missed playoffs and bring Lovie back, if that does in fact happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by JJ-30
I woke up this morning realizing I no longer care about these issues of who we should draft, should we draft a backup QB, drafting Urlacher's replacement, replacing Lovie, etc. etc. etc.
I don't really care anymore about any of these side issues.
I'm at the point now, that I don't care about who we draft or who we acquire in FA - as long as we fix the offensive line this off-season. I'm hunkered down until the off-season, just watching from the weeds to see what Emery does with the oline.
Emery fails to fix it with rock solid talent, then I have NO use for Emery. He's just Jerry Angelo-II. I am so sick and angry about how this season was sacrificed, by not putting a decent oline in front of Jay Cutler.
And if we fail to fix the oline then it doesn't matter who the coaches are. I've seen this movie before. We fans are just forced to endure yet another crap season. No offense in the NFL = crap season.
The other stuff, I just don't care about anymore.