Lovie Smith

Um, you, you might have to go back 40 years.

Although, I think you, you'd probably argue Lovie Smith, right? Like, that, that probably is...

That was a, that was a...

I mean, they went to the Super Bowl, for crying out loud.

We got nutty brunette leading the charge.

And, and I just got to say, since I've been alive, right? Um, we've had Ditka, Wannstedt, Dick Jauron, um, Lovie Smith, Trestman, Fox, Nagy, Eberflus, Thomas Brown for a bit, and then we got Ben Johnson.

I didn't pay attention to, to press conferences for new coaches Ditka, Wannstedt or, or Dick Jauron.

But every single one after that I did, and there's only been one other coach, other than our crazy brunette right now, that actually mentioned the rivalry in his opening press conference, right? Lo and behold-

Yeah.

You know? And before, we'll talk about that later, but, um, I thought it was interesting.

You know, in our lifetimes only one other coach I remember made mention of it, and, uh, Lovie Smith, one of the greatest ever in Bears history.

So I got the nutty brown.

That was it.

He came as the guy that Lovie Smith picked to be his general manager.

They fired Lovie to keep Dirk Koetter.

That came from ownership-

I believe this is from Evan Abrams.

Bears haven't closed as a road favorite in Lambeau Field since Rex Grossman and Lovie Smith back in week one of 2006.

Hey, Rex Grossman started a Super Bowl.

He did.

It Is Michael says, "Did you, uh, do you think you look like Coach Lubby Smith?" He says, "No, this isn't the all Black people like question." Yes.

Actually, that was exposed- Back when Lovie Smith was when...

I was on YouTube when the Bears...

If you're gonna crown them, crown them.

I think I was back when Lovie Smith, I think he was coaching the Bears, or he coached another team, and people were calling me Lovie Smith back in the day.

All right, so shout out to him.

I got Emmitt Smith, Lovie Smith.

All right, Taye Diggs a little bit back in the day when I was younger.

That's great.

That's how I felt with the Bears because they originally, instead of firing Lovie Smith after going 10-6, keep Lovie Smith, but you hire Mark Trestman as your offensive coordinator because when we ended up having him as our coach the next year, we had the top two scoring offense.

So just imagine we had his offensive coordinator playing call skills with Lovie Smith's defensive-minded team and defense.

Lock

you down on defense.

Yeah

... and, and I'm sorry to our good friend John who's in the Discord, was like, "The Bears played a lot more boring games in the Lovie Smith era." And I'm like, "That's not what we mean, John."

Yeah.

You're confusing boring with unwatchable, and I'm confusing boring with just, like, okay, uh-

Um, they've been running some of the non-traditional Tampas that were just so god-awful for them last year.

Um, and they're actually playing them really well this year.

Uh, you know, Lovie Smith would say there's nothing wrong with cover two.

You just gotta actually be where you're supposed to be and, and run it well.

I told, uh, my buddies on Half the Distance Live on Sunday night, I'm having to rewire my brain to realize I ha- that the team I root for has a good coaching staff again.

The last time I can say that was Lovie Smith, and he got fired in 2010, I believe, after a 10-win season.

Now, the interesting fact about me saying Lovie Smith for that, is that the last time that what happened this... what's happening this weekend happened before, was in 2006 when the Bears made the Super Bowl and Lovie Smith was the head coach, which is the point I'm getting to, not Super Bowl.

'Cause that was the last time in week one of the NFL season that the Bears went into Green Bay as favorites.

Now, they're only favored by, like, three points in this game.