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Lovie Smith Thinks If He Doesn’t Talk About The Crappy Season, Maybe It Will Just Disappear

November 20, 2009 at 8:30 am | Chicago Bears
By: Stormin' Norman Disciple

The Bears stand at 4-5 and without a winning streak of some kind, they will likely be out of the playoffs. Hell, Lovie and Jerry Angelo will probably be out of a job. That being said, the media, fans, and pretty much everyone connected to the league in any way is down on the Bears. As such, Lovie, Jerry and Jay have gotten pretty sick of answering questions about their terrible team. So sick in fact, that they will no longer be answering those questions. Not for NBC at least:

In a sign of how difficult things have become in the Bears’ world, the beleaguered team stunned a network giant Wednesday by rejecting NBC’s request for prime-time access to coach Lovie Smith, quarterback Jay Cutler and general manager Jerry Angelo.

Smith and any requested players, including Cutler, will be made available to NBC for standard pre-production meetings Friday with announcers Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth. Such sessions always are off-camera. But no Bears personnel will be on-camera for NBC’s pregame show.

I’m not sure what this is meant to accomplish. As the article points out, an opportunity to talk to Costas is usually a chance to put your own spin on the story. That being said, I’m sure the frustration of the last month or so is difficult to deal with and having to explain to the media over and over again what’s wrong can’t be good for anyone’s confidence.

Or maybe the Bears are just hoping that if they don’t talk about how bad things have been, those things will just go away.