Chicago Bears shake up coaching staff


Call it the Chicago Bears post season massacre; even though Head Coach Lovie Smith’s job is safe for now, the Bears have shaken up their coaching staff. Smith now faces a 2010 NFL season where he must win or get fired. More to the point Smith is going to generate a deep playoff run, or lose his job. On top of that it seems the Bears are in a very bad position moving forward. After the end of the 2009 season they fired six coaches on the offensive side of the ball including offensive coordinator Rod Turner.

It seems that Turner and new franchise QB Jay Cutler did not get along so well. It seems the Bears front office is blaming that icy relationship on the Bears struggles in 2009. I don’t know how much of that I can buy into. It seems Cutler is always going to be a QB that throws as many interceptions as he does touchdowns. In 2009 he threw 27 TD passes and 26 INT’s. For his career he has 81 TD passes, and 63 INT’s. Given those stats it seems very hard to justify the price the Bears paid to get him from the Denver Broncos.

While the Bears offensive struggled, the defense wasn’t much better. A lot of that is because of the season ending injury to Brian Urlacher. The Bears defense is not the same animal without Urlacher. It is really that simple. For the most part the Bears 2009 defense was in the bottom third of NFL defenses. Given that there is no surprise that the Bears are in the market for a new defensive coordinator as well. Both coordinators are likely to be hired from outside the organization.

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