Seifert: "Sunday could be Lovie's final game with the team"

Detroit isn't going to roll over for us. They would love to kill our 2012 season, in front of their fans.

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We know the Bears must win this game to get in the playoffs. Do they need to win in order to save coach Lovie Smith's job as well?

A loss would leave the Bears out of the playoffs for the fifth time in six seasons since they reached the Super Bowl in 2006. They would become just the second team in the 23-year history of this playoff structure to miss out on the playoffs after a 7-1 start, and at best Smith would be looking at a lame duck contract for 2013.

We have no idea what the McCaskey family and general manager Phil Emery are thinking, but the possibility exists that Sunday could be Smith's final game with the team.

http://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=....jpg&w=35&h=48Kevin Seifert | email

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Bears will win.

Reason #1: Most of their players have already quit on their coach.

I think this could be a tough game, because the Lions would like to spoil our playoff hopes. I also think that if we get up 2 scores early, the Kitties will quit.

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Originally Posted by The Benjamin

Bears will win.

Reason #1: Most of their players have already quit on their coach.

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The Detroit team hates our team. Deep hatred for the Bears. It's personal. They would LOVE to kill our season. So, they'll bring it bigtime Sunday.

We can win, but we will have to do more than just "show up" and expect them to roll over for us.

I do hope so,the garbage he's been selling has festered for years.
A win or a loss is moot in my opinion,it's a systemic coaching failure top to bottom;with rare exceptions.
Getting embarrassed in the playoffs is not a goal,it's a travesty for a once proud franchise.

We've had some solid defensive teams. But Lovie never figured out how to build an offense. I don't think he ever valued the offense. Like he didn't really care that much, as long as the defense was great.

Seifert: "Sunday could be Lovie's final game with the team"

Lemme fix this;

Soulman: "Sunday should be Lovie's final game with the team"

There, now it reads right.

Yeah I'm wondering what has to happen to get smith fired in my personal opinion I don't think he Shoukd be back with anything short of reaching the NFC title game because its his complete lack of ability to beat good teams that is our problem in the first place

It's pethedict how horribly he gets outcoached (GB, SF, Seattle) just to name a few and unless he can prove it I think he should be done no question

Problem is, realistically I think missing the playoffs is the only way he gets fired and even then if say its 50/50

IMO I think emery would can him if it was entirely his call, I feel like they have philosophical differences (I'm sticking to my emery conspiracy that Shea was taken in hopes of a 3-4 future) and a new gm usually wants "his guy" but I'm not sure if he really can fire him with instruction from above

Long story short only way I'm not royally pissed (Rachel grade mad) that he stays is if we make the playoffs and make a deep run because he can no longer just ride the defense and Hester anymore. His style of "just pray our d/st can score" is about as effective as the pull n pray and shows absolutely no ability to put a team in position to win when It counts. There aren't many Arizonans in the playoffs....

It is Emery's call. No self respecting GM would take a job if he could not make the call on the coach

To me the only story here is in seeing where "the line" is for Lovie. Do we keep him if we win but so does Minny (leaving us out of the playoffs)? Do we fire him either way? Do we keep him if we lose?


The story is much more indicative of Emery than Lovie. I think most will form an opinion on Emery based upon where that line actually resides.