Pro Football Weekly unleashed a scathing report on Lovie Gump today questioning not only his coaching ability, but his ability to evaluate talent, most noticeably Cedric Benson, perhaps the biggest bust of the 2004 draft. The article claims that Lovie, with his newfound power has been horrible at personnel decisions and has ruined the draft. While I agree that Lovie Gump is, at best, a second rate coach, Angelo has to be held accountable as well.
All in all the article correctly states that Lovie's decisions, like putting Mark Anderson ahead of Alex Brown and moving around Daniel Manning around from position to position have resulted "in a manner that has been detrimental to the team"
From a week after the Super Bowl, Lovie has been making decisions that have basically screwed up the Bears. Ron Rivera getting fired, deciding to go with Cedric 'the Buster" Benson.
You have to give Lovie some credit, he did win coach of the year in his second year and take the team to the Super Bowl in his third year. Unfortunately, now that he makes $5 Million a year and feels he should assert his power, he has ruined the defense and I honestly believe he knows next to nothing about offense. Moreover, he doesn't know how to production out of his offensive coordinator.
Ultimately, I don't think Lovie's job is in jeopardy, but if the Bears have another throw away season he should not feel safe. Maybe by then, we might actually have a legit quarterback.
2 comments:
Lovie is a great coach. What do you want, Dick Jauron? Like you said in your post, Lovie won coach of the year and took the team to the Super Bowl. This year has to be blamed on the players or Angelo, not Lovie.
who misread ruben brown's injury. no pass protection and no run blocking. the guy, apparently couldn't use his right arm. i also believe this comes from angelo. he is the one in denial for all of his draft choices.
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