Not Qualified To Comment » Mike Shanahan http://notqualifiedtocomment.com Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:48:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Chicago Bears Putting Feelers Out For Bill Cowher http://notqualifiedtocomment.com/2009/11/chicago-bears-putting-feelers-out-for-bill-cowher.html http://notqualifiedtocomment.com/2009/11/chicago-bears-putting-feelers-out-for-bill-cowher.html#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:08:02 +0000 Stormin' Norman Disciple http://notqualifiedtocomment.com/?p=5510 Coaches_medium-300x183Well, 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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