His team would have never let that fumble TD happen.

Would have been 14-3 Bears.

Agreed but they'd have come in 7-8 with nothing to play for

Agreed but they'd have come in 7-8 with nothing to play for

Yea.....just imagine what Mike Martz would have done with this offense.

Agreed but they'd have come in 7-8 with nothing to play for

Wow.

If that's the case, he screwed the pooch on that one. Lovie/Trestman would have been nice.

I don't remember Trestman's name coming up last year as anything other than HC. I think he was an option as OC when Lovie first got hired, but Shea was hired instead.

His team would have never let that fumble TD happen.

Would have been 14-3 Bears.

Trestman has proven himself as nothing more than offensive Lovie at this point in his HC career.

Trestman has proven himself as nothing more than offensive Lovie at this point in his HC career.

One year. Not sure you can determine that yet. Now if next year changes are made and the results are the same then I would agree with you.

You mean the Bears would've led 7-3.

They wouldn't have returned it for 7?

I'll give Lovie the shoutout for being smart enough to not coach this year and stay home for 5 million. That's living the dream right there. Also if he were coordinator of this defense I feel it would've been same results especially after the injuries. All he would've done is sit back in cover 2 and wait for turnovers that were never going to happen and just get put to death by a thousand cuts by opposing offenses. No pass rush and cover 2 gets eaten alive.

I'll give Lovie the shoutout for being smart enough to not coach this year and stay home for 5 million. That's living the dream right there. Also if he were coordinator of this defense I feel it would've been same results especially after the injuries. All he would've done is sit back in cover 2 and wait for turnovers that were never going to happen and just get put to death by a thousand cuts by opposing offenses. No pass rush and cover 2 gets eaten alive.

Check out defense stats from 2007-2009, right after the super bowl and before peppers. Those were bad years according to Lovie standards, and they failed to make the playoffs. Sustained injuries to Urlacher, Mike Brown, etc. They were bad - but never this bad. The difference is coaching. Your backup players will make it tough to succeed, but the difference between mediocre defense, which is what Lovie produced during the time period I mentioned, and league-worst defense under Tucker, is coaching. Your backup may not make the play, but good coaching means he's at least in the right spot. Lovies guys were fundamentally disciplined.

yeah but his whole defensive philosophy was dictated on bend don't break, we will take it away before you can drive 80 yards on us. After the injuries, where were those turnovers going to come from? The back ups were not good and couldn't force turnovers.

His team would have never let that fumble TD happen.

Would have been 14-3 Bears.

“The thing is, when Lovie was there, we didn’t make mistakes. We didn’t run through wrong gaps. We did our walk-throughs every day and we knew where we needed to fit, we knew what we needed to do every single play. I’m not sure what’s going on right now, but there are some big-ass gaps.”

“The other thing about a Lovie Smith defense, you know it’s going to play hard as hell. You always saw guys running to the football. That’s how we got so many takeaways. If you didn’t run to the football with Lovie, you would not be on the field.”

I'm afeared both Lovie and Tresty are clueless with regards to the opposite side of the ball.

Lovie Smith is a legend.

Figured the Lovie deal in Tampa would be done by now? Guessing they asked Lovie who will be his OC and he brought out his lists....lol......