Chicago Bears Putting Feelers Out For Bill Cowher
Well, so much for discretion and class. As I discussed last week when management went behind Angelo and Lovie’s back to test the waters on Mike Shanahan to coach the Bears, this is a backhanded way of getting a new coach. As much as we all think and know that Lovie’s day is done, you never want your team to be the one’s that shadily fire a coach mid-season without communicating with the coach at all. That being said, bring on Cowher:
The Bears have reached out to an intermediary for former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher to gauge whether he would have any interest in coming to Chicago should the team decide to fire Lovie Smith, according to Hub Arkush, publisher of Pro Football Weekly and an analyst for the radio station.
The Bears are denying this report, just like they denied the Shanahan rumors. After watching last night’s fiasco, however, and the Bears epic meltdown the last 6 weeks, it is clearly time to kick Lovie to the curb. As bad as the offense has been, the defense is what is costing Lovie his job. When he came in and implemented the Cover 2, it worked perfectly. But then Rivera walked and Babich failed. Lovie took over the defensive play-calling, putting the onus for the defense’s performance squarely on him. If you watched pretty much any 5 minute stretch of the Bears defense in the last 6 weeks, you know that the Cover 2 (or maybe just the personnel), is unable to stop anyone in this league anymore.
Be it Cowher or Shanahan or anyone else, Lovie’s inflexibility with his failing defensive scheme has doomed the Bears’ season, and his job.
h/t: Ethan
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Comment from Ethan
Time November 30, 2009 at 11:30 am
i’m still not convinced that the bears are ready to eat the remaining two years of lovie’s contract AND hire a high-profile head coach. besides, given this team would you rather see a new head coach or a revamped offensive line? I’m really not sure but I think i’d rather see a ridiculous o-line and allow cutler some time to do his thing. this is all assuming that ron turner is fired b/c he sucks at life and has no idea how to run an offense.