Smith Snaps When Asked Of Martz's Future
To say the tension is a little tight at Halas Hall might be the understatement of the year.
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To say the tension is a little tight at Halas Hall might be the understatement of the year.
The Bears may have at last accepted defeat with the playoff dream over and one game remaining in a ruined season, but Lovie Smith's pronouncement that the team won't be holding a tryout for next year in the finale at Minnesota boggles the mind.
There is one Sunday left in the NFL season and coaches will be fired within 24 to 72 hours of the last game. Football never stops and if you are not getting better, you are getting worse.
Bears coach Lovie Smith said Jay Cutler will have the pins removed from his throwing hand Tuesday, but don't count on the quarterback playing in Sunday's finale against the Vikings.
The scene in the locker room after the game here at Lambeau Field wasn't nearly as bad as I feared. I anticipated a lot of long faces and angry scowls on the Bears player's faces but instead was met with resignation.
Aaron Rodgers had the first five-touchdown game of his career, and the Green Bay Packers clinched the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs with a 35-21 victory over the rival Chicago Bears on Sunday night.
It seems that the Bears and the Bulls have been trying to follow the same floor plan the last few years as far as building their teams.
Lovie Smith and Jerry Angelo can make all the noise they want about beating the archrival Packers this week and it is nothing more than gum flapping.
Josh McCown will start at quarterback for the Bears Sunday night when they take on the Packers in Green Bay.
Backup quarterback Josh McCown will get snaps with the Bears' No. 1 offense in Wednesday's practice, 670 The Score's Zach Zaidman reported Tuesday.
Johnny Knox's spinal surgery was a success, his agent said on Twitter Monday.
Lovie Smith was somewhat vague Monday regarding his starting quarterback, saying Caleb Hanie is his starter, but adding that there would be an evaluation with more information available Wednesday.
Considering he was undergoing spinal surgery, it was assumed Johnny Knox would miss the rest of the season, but head coach Lovie Smith confirmed as much Monday.
Bears Coach Lovie Smith said quarterback Caleb Hanie should not get all the blame for the crushing loss to the Seattle Seahawks Sunday, but would not rule out any lineup changes for when the Bears take on the Green Bay Packers next week.
With 11 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter of Sunday's 38-14 loss to the Seahawks, thousands of Bears fans flooded the exits of Solider Field knowing the season was all but over.
They did it front of the stunned, silent home fans, displaying the truth of their thin, banged-up roster and making clear what has probably been the story since Jay Cutler got hurt: they never had a shot.
As a football player, Sam Hurd is a hard-working athlete who did everything that head coach Lovie Smith, wide receivers coach Darryl Drake and special teams coach Dave Toub asked of him on the football field.
Lovie Smith said Thursday he was shocked by the news that wide receiver Sam Hurd had been arrested on federal drug charges, but he doesn't think any of his other players will be connected to the allegations.
I guess we have the most practical definition yet of Franchise Quarterback.
It's two days after the Bears' overtime loss to the Broncos and it's still as baffling as ever.
Bears Coach Lovie Smith said three consecutive losses have "really hurt us," after the Bears blew a 10-0 lead and lost to the Denver Broncos in overtime Sunday.
Is it possible that Denver Bronco "quarterback" Tim Tebow is the inspiration for the Dos Equis "most interesting man in the world" ad campaign?
That gurgling sound coming from the shores of Lake Michigan? That's Lovie Smith starting to drown. When you lose Jay Cutler and Matt Forte two weeks later, it's an uphill battle for even the best coaches.
Bears head coach Lovie Smith shot down rumors saying the team would look into adding another quarterback.
Sunday's 10-3 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs was so ugly, it will likely go down as one of the worst home losses in Bears' history.
