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blog.blitznation.com - 48 minutes ago
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blog.blitznation.com —
The Chicago Bears lost yet another game yesterday
in which they were embarrassed and exposed, and now...
fall to 4-7 on the season. Bears fans throughout the world are starting to point fingers. Is it management? Is it coaching? Or is it players? There’s no right answer in this debate, ...
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It’s Time to Play the Chicago Bears Blame Game!
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notqualifiedtocomment.com - 50 minutes ago
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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, ...
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Chicago Bears Putting Feelers Out For Bill Cowher
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blogdownchicagobears.com - 18 hours ago
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Midway through the fourth quarter and the Vikings
have a rather comfortable 30-10 lead over the Bears....
To be honest, I’m not really in to the game, but from the little pieces I have picked up, the following milestones have occurred: Favre threw his 500th career touchdown pass, Cutler ...
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Bears-Vikings: If You Don’t Count The Second Quarter, ...
chicagotribune.com - 28 hours ago
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He's going to need a dominant set of
offensive tackles > Hiring Mike Martz would constitute a...
complete philosophy shift for the Bears offensively. Lovie ...
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Hiring Martz would force huge shift
blogdownchicagobears.com - 2 days ago
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Talk to Bears fans about who’s mostly to
blame for the Bears struggles, and you’re bound to...
get a variety of answers: Jerry Angelo, Lovie Smith, Bob Babich, Jay Cutler, and Tommie Harris are common responses. A majority of Bears fans will say Ron Turner, though. But, is he the true cause of the ...
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Is Ron Turner A Dumbass?
sportingnews.com - 2 days ago
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ProFootballTalk.com's Mike Florio weighs in on the biggest
story lines of Week 12: 1. Lovie Smith needs...
a win, badly The Chicago Bears started the season 3-1, and they seemed poised to fulfill the enormous expectations that arose as soon as ...
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10-Pack: Bears, Lovie Smith face must-win situation
suntimes.com - 3 days ago
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suntimes.com —
The prospect of Family McCaskey doing a little
progressive thinking and courting top-shelf NFL coaches -- with...
Lovie Smith locked in for another two years -- warmed the cockles of my heart Tuesday.
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Some time off will do you good, Lovie
blogdownchicagobears.com - 4 days ago
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Another name (supposedly?) popped up today in connection
to the Bears offensive coordinator position that may or...
may not actually be open once the season ends: Mike Martz . Seemingly moments afterward, Martz said it was all “crap” . But, the best part about the idea of replacing ...
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And One More Thing (For Now) About The Chicago Bears ...
digitalsportsdaily.com - 4 days ago
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The Chicago Sun-Times reports that former St. Louis
offensive guru , master and genius Mike Martz is...
rumored to join the Chicago Bears as their offensive coordinator. It seems as though a move wouldn’t take place until the offseason however, giving current Bears offensive coordinator Ron ...
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Report: Mike Martz to the Bears
thevikingage.com - 4 days ago
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Jay Cutler has not been the quarterback the
Bears thought they were getting when they traded Kyle...
Orton and numerous draft picks to the Denver Broncos to acquire him and his howitzer arm. Actually, that is an understatement. The Jay Cutler the Bears thought they were getting was a Pro ...
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Cutler Admits He Stinks
scoresreport.com - 4 days ago
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According to a report by the Chicago Sun
Times , Mike Martz is a candidate to become...
the Bears’ next offensive coordinator. ”Martz would love to work with Jay Cutler,” said the source, who cited the close relationship between Smith and Martz in sharing the information. Smith ...
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Martz a candidate to become Bears’ next O-coordinator
notqualifiedtocomment.com - 5 days ago
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To all those screaming for Lovie Smith’s head
(I’m one of them), there is some good news...
out of Halas Hall. Or at least good rumors. According to Hub Arkush at 670 The Score , the Bears are putting out feelers for a new head coach: Someone in the Bears’ organization at a ...
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The Bears are Finally Looking for a New Coach
blogdownchicagobears.com - 5 days ago
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Honestly, all Bears fans would probably prefer the
Super Bowl-winning, square-jawed head coach to the frustratingly stoic...
Lovie Smith. To watch the franchise painfully stagnate in mediocrity isn’t fun, but swapping head coaches isn’t the most important coaching change to make. ...
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The Reality In This Bill Cowher To Chicago Bears Talk
chicagonow.com - 5 days ago
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chicagonow.com —
Eat the eleven million dollars. Show the millions
of a great city and hordes of us elsewhere...
that you understand the value of this prized possession, the Chicago Bears. Today Lovie Smith said this: "We were 9-7 last year and ...
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Bears Must Fire Lovie Smith
mouthpiecesports.com - 5 days ago
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Hey, there’s been no indication Lovie Smith’s job
is in jeopardy quite yet, but let’s just speculate...
about another coach now, shall we! From Haugh at the Trib : An NFL Network report Monday night cited a source that said the ...
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Bill Cowher, Anyone?
suntimes.com - 6 days ago
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Now we know why Lovie Smith, Jerry Angelo
and Jay Cutler did not want to be interrogated...
by NBC bulldog Bob ''I have ways of making you talk'' Costas.
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Loss has familiar Bears ring
suntimes.com - 6 days ago
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Lovie Smith: "I still feel like we're in
the mix. If we can correct a lot of...
things, a lot of the small things, really they're not small. They're turning into big things that we have to take care of.''
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AFTERNOON SPORTS CLUB 'Small things' turning into BIG ...
chicagobreakingsports.com - 9 days ago
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Veteran NBC sportscaster Bob Costas today dismissed the
Bears' decision to not provide interviews for Sunday's "Football...
Night In America" as "no big deal." "I don't consider it a personal snub in any way. In fact, I wasn't involved," Costas told the ...
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Costas: Bears' refusal not a personal snub
thebeartruth.net - 9 days ago
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Funny movie quote or Lovie Smith's first statement at
Monday's press conference? The Bears welcome the Philadelphia Eagles...
on Sunday night, as the Bears try to end their season skid and the Eagles look for their first Sunday Night football ever. Andy Reid The Eagles come in ...
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"Had a rough night, and I hate the f@#*ing Eagles, man"
sports.yahoo.com - 10 days ago
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Stating that "there's nothing else to say", Chicago
Bears coach Lovie Smith has refused a Bob Costas...
interview request in anticipation of the Bears Sunday Night Football game. Jay Cutler (notes) and Bears general manager Jerry Angelo ...
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Jay Cutler, Lovie Smith spurn Bob Costas interview request
suntimes.com - 10 days ago
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suntimes.com —
It's time to put up, so the Bears
are going to shut up when it comes to...
the NBC pregame show Sunday night. That's the message coach Lovie Smith delivered after practice Thursday as the Bears made final preparations for the Philadelphia Eagles in what ...
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Lovie on silent act: 'Nothing else to say'
notqualifiedtocomment.com - 10 days ago
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notqualifiedtocomment.com —
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, ...
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Lovie Smith Thinks If He Doesn’t Talk About The Crappy ...
alee-thesportinglife.blogspot.com - 10 days ago
gridironfans.com - 10 days ago
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gridironfans.com —
The relationship between the Bears and NBC is
not strained because the team decided not to grant...
a request for prime-time interviews with Lovie Smith, Jay Cutler and general manager Jerry Angelo, Bears spokesman Scott Hagel said today. As first reported in the Chicago Sun-Times, Smith and any ...
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[Bears] Bears Decide To Deny Primetime Interviews To NBC
blogs.suntimes.com - 10 days ago
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NBC-5 WMAQ caught up with announcer Bob Costas
today to speak with him about being turned down...
by the Bears for a story Sunday night on "Football Night in America.'' The team was asked to supply quarterback Jay Cutler, coach...
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Costas responds to Bears' silence: "What else can they say?"
chicagobreakingsports.com - 10 days ago
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By Vaughn McClure The relationship between the Bears
and NBC is not strained because the team decided...
not to grant a request for prime-time interviews with Lovie Smith, Jay Cutler and general manager Jerry Angelo, Bears spokesman Scott Hagel said ...
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Bears say no rift with NBC over pregame rebuff
blogdownchicagobears.com - 10 days ago
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So it hasn’t been the type of season
everyone in Chicago had expected, you know, with the...
lofty expectations surrounding Jay Cutler and all. And yes, it is true that Cutler has particularly been error-prone while being watched by a prime time audience. But it doesn’t mean that NBC ...
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Bears Would Prefer That NBC Not Spotlight Their Failures
nflmanifesto.com - 10 days ago
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nflmanifesto.com —
Apparently paranoia is running rampant in the halls
of the Bears Lake Forrest complex. Head coach Lovie...
Smith, general manager Jerry Angelo and starting QB Jay Cutler have rejected NBC’s request for on camera interviews with Bob Costas in the networks preparation for this Sundays NBC ...
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Bears Go Into Lockdown . . .Say No to Costas and NBC
nfl.fanhouse.com - 10 days ago
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by Matt Snyder As the Chicago Bears look
to break a skid which has found them losing...
four of their last five games, they are apparently not in a very outgoing mood. As NBC gears up for Sunday Night football this week -- which pits the Bears against ...
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Bears Shun NBC for Sunday Night Game
suntimes.com - 11 days ago
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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.
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Primed to call an inaudible
blog.blitznation.com - 12 days ago
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Being a fan of the Chicago Bears ,
watching this junk that they’ve put out on the...
field in recent weeks hasn’t been easy. One week their offense looks great, and their defense doesn’t. Then the next week, it’s the other way around. But when a team struggles, most ...
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Rex Grossman’s Dad Rips the Bears Organization a New One
sports.espn.go.com - 13 days ago
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If he were any other quarterback, Jay Cutler
would have been benched by now. But when you've...
invested what the Chicago Bears have invested in him -- not much, just the franchise's future -- then you're stuck with the human interception machine. Or are ...
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Gene Wojciechowski: Does Lovie Smith have the courage to ...
bigleaguescrew.com - 13 days ago
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The Bears have always struggled to find a
quarterback. They thought they’d landed their franchise QB when...
they dealt for Jay Cutler. A little over halfway into the season, the results have been subpar. Jay Cutler has thrown 14 touchdowns compared to 17 interceptions this year. The ...
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GROSSMAN’S DAD SEZ BLAME BEARS, NOT CUTLER
profootballtalk.nbcsports.com - 13 days ago
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In the brief sliver of time between the
conclusion of the afternoon games and the launch of...
the weekly PFT live chat on Sunday Night Football Extra, here's a quick follow up to the PFT story that Bob Costas mentioned...
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Casserly says "the Bears" are "100 percent committed" to ...
profootballtalk.nbcsports.com - 13 days ago
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Bears defensive tackle Tommie Harris says he and
his teammates need to get to the playoffs not...
just for themselves, but for coach Lovie Smith -- who, according to Harris, has been so good to the players that they must...
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Harris: We owe it to Lovie to play better
chicagotribune.com - 13 days ago
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chicagotribune.com —
LAKE FOREST, Ill. - With four losses in
five games and a 4-5 record, defensive tackle Tommie...
Harris realizes the Chicago Bears ' hopes are fading fast. His faith in Lovie Smith is not, however. Harris rushed to his coach's defense Monday, saying the ...
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Bears' Harris keeps faith in Smith
suntimes.com - 14 days ago
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Bears coach Lovie Smith learned a lot from
his mentor, Tony Dungy, but he has been remarkably...
more patient than Dungy with his offense.
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Lovie needs to lose patience with offense
feedproxy.google.com - 16 days ago
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It was yet another bleak football game played
by the Chicago Bears. They did indeed lose the...
game against the 49ers 10-6, but the fact that the Bears lost has been overshadowed by the fact that Bears QB Jay Cutler thew five INTs. Cutler, though, is not the main contributor to their less ...
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Do the Bears Have a QB Problem or is it Something Else?
suntimes.com - 16 days ago
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suntimes.com —
Bears coach Lovie Smith keeps saying the Bears
are not accustomed to the penalties they have been...
receiving, but at some point, he's going to have to admit it's an issue.
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BEARS IN BRIEF: Penalties starting to haunt Bears
sweetflaccoaction.blogspot.com - 16 days ago
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-We kept your desk over there.- Week 10:
the final five. What more is there to say...
really? Cole has all but clinched his playoff spot, and RWPilk has is back against the wall, ready to crack some skulls down the final stretch and possibly secure the league's only wild card spot. Do our ...
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Week 10 Preview: Welcome Back, Rackers!
blogdownchicagobears.com - 16 days ago
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Jay Cutler was supposed to be the Chicago
Bears’ answer to the long-running quarterback deficiencies that, for...
so many years, presumably hindered the franchise from winning for any real extended period of time. He was their Messiah, the all-time missing link to a Super Bowl-shuffle ...
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That Which Is Wrong With The Chicago Bears
notqualifiedtocomment.com - 16 days ago
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notqualifiedtocomment.com —
I have one simple request. Can everyone stop
emailing, instant messaging, texting, and calling me to talk...
about or ask what I thought about last night’s Bears game please? I don’t feel like talking about it. You can all expect one or both of these 2 posts next week: Does Cutler ...
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Micro Machines Guy Rips Chicago Bears Quarterbacks
scoresreport.com - 17 days ago
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With their 10-6 loss to the 49ers in
San Francisco on Thursday night, the Bears may have...
sealed their fate this season. At 4-5, the Bears would almost have to run the table to make the playoffs this year, a task that seems impossible with teams like the Eagles, Vikings (twice) and the ...
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Are the Bears done?
nflmanifesto.com - 17 days ago
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Jay Cutler, Jeff George….Jeff George, Jay Cutler If
Alex Smith is the answer I don’t want to...
know the question Can the NFL go to flex scheduling at halftime? Micheal Crabtree may become a solid #2 possession style receiver, however he does not have the separation speed to ...
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From Lou’s Desk….. 49ers vs. Bears Post Mortem
suntimes.com - 17 days ago
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You could say that the Bears left their
season right here, in San Francisco, but that would...
ignore the failings by this team that have been spread across the country. At Green Bay, Atlanta, Cincinnati and, yes, Soldier Field, Lovie Smith's team has ...
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Season sets in the West
scoresreport.com - 17 days ago
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When Chicago acquired Jay Cutler from the Denver
Broncos this offseason, it was all Bear fans could...
do from booking their plane tickets to Miami. They figured that since they finally had a franchise quarterback under center and that the offensive line had improved, there’s no way Da Bears ...
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Jay Cutler + Red Zone = Disaster
blogs.suntimes.com - 17 days ago
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Virtually every media outlet is playing up the
"Lovie Smith is fighting for his job!" angle before...
tonight's Bears-49ers game. It's an obvious storyline, and - with bloggers and sports talk radio callers kicking the "Fire Lovie" campaign into overdrive...
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The Bears Get to Lose Three Days Earlier Than Normal ...
gridironfans.com - 18 days ago
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gridironfans.com —
No matter how loudly Chicago Bears fans scream
for it, the team isn't planning to fire head...
coach Lovie Smith anytime this season. The Bears have Smith under contract till the end of 2011 to the tune of $11 million and there is no expectation that team ownership is going to get rid of Smith ...
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[Bears] Firing Lovie Smith Would Be Too Expensive For ...
scoresreport.com - 18 days ago
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Following their embarrassing 41-21 loss to the Cardinals
at Solider Field last Sunday (which came just three...
weeks after an embarrassing 45-10 loss to the Bengals in Cincinnati), many Chicago fans were screaming from their rooftops for the Bears to fire head coach Lovie Smith. But it ...
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Bears won’t fire Lovie Smith
chicagotribune.com - 18 days ago
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chicagotribune.com —
Chicago Bears very unlikely to assume the additional
costs > The decision to keep Lovie Smith at...
least until the end of next season already has been made. In fact, it was made 2 1/2 ...
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Firing Lovie would be expensive proposition





















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