Lovie Smith leading candidate for Bucs job; things are about to get real hectic in the NFC south.

[carolina-chuck]

Give Tampa Lovie.

 

RIVERA >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lovie

 

Chico knows him inside out.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Have you seen our offense lately?

 

And that has what to do with Lovie Smith?

[csx]

And that has what to do with Lovie Smith?

It seems to suggest you can win a division with a strong defense and a clock killing offense.

[Rags]

Did you see the defense the Bears use to field? His only problem is offense but the thing is

 

Tamapa already has a  lot of the pieces in place for an elite defense. 

 

Say what you will about Lovie but he had a lot of good Defenses with the Bears, and even when he was fired they were a 10 win team.

[Awesomeness!!]

The man took a team to the Super Bowl with Rex Grossman at QB. Saying he is anything under decent is nonsense.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

It seems to suggest you can win a division with a strong defense and a clock killing offense.

 

Winning a division is cool, but I'd also like to see the team win a few Super Bowl's as well...

 

I'd also like to point out that Smith's offense was ranked in the top five in points in only one of his nine seasons at Chicago. Not exactly stellar.

 

I'm not taking anything away from the man, he is a great individual with a great heart and decent coach. He just couldn't find out how to field an offense in Chicago and unfortunately you rarely see teams win a Super Bowl based on defense alone (the Ravens are really the only team that comes to mind).

[CPF4LIFE]

Even more reason to go all offense this off season.

[Growl]

Unless Lovie goes in and tanks as he's done so many times.

BUT THE NAME, I KNOW IT!

[Growl]

THE ONLY WAY THIS COULD BE WORSE IS IF THEY BROUGHT BACK JON GRUDE OR SIGNED BILL COWHER!!!

[Jangler]

I like the idea of the Rivera-Smith rivalry.  Someone once hinted at one of the reasons Rivera was let go as the Bears DC some years ago, was because Lovie was afraid of his success.  Feared that he would be fired in favor of Rivera being the Bears HC perhaps.  Bring Lovie on Bucs!

 

If true, I got a chubby....aw hell, I already had one,

[CPcavedweller]

And that has what to do with Lovie Smith?

Because your post made an assumption that Smith as a HC. Wouldn't matter because of his offense. Our offense has been anemic for the last quarter of the season and we are 12-4.

[BerryLoMein]

I say bring it on, steel sharpens  steel.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Because your post made an assumption that Smith as a HC. Wouldn't matter because of his offense. Our offense has been anemic for the last quarter of the season and we are 12-4.

 

Gotcha

 

While that makes sense, Chicago only had one top 10 offense in Smith's 9 seasons as Chicago's HC.

[pantherclaw]

Lovie Smith's teams under achieve.

That's scary?