This is HORRIBLE. All these guys are great coaches.

Hey Neil, where's the LINK?????

HAYES HERE: I apologize. We've got some sort of bug in the system when it comes to links. I'll talk to our web guy today.

The reason the Bears have lots of mention on lists like this is that team ownership is far too patient (mostly because they are cheap when it comes to guaranteed salaries). It should have been obvious that Wanny was a terrible coach, and should have been let go 2-3 years before he was fired. Jauron, same thing. The one year they had a 13-3 record was an anomaly, not the sign of things to come. Lovie took one of the more dominant defenses in the league, and refused to help them evolve as they got older. Angelo hasn't made an impact draft pick in 4 years, and this team is breaking down. Lovie deserves a lot of the blame, and another big chunk goes to Angelo. But ownership is why we have 3 out of 10 bad coaches...Leadership and success all starts from the top.

An organization that really cared about winning would have canned Lovie after 2008, but most definitely after last season. Angelo would have been gone too, and a new staff would be in place now, working with our young QB, who is quickly becoming damaged goods under this regime. 2 first round picks, a 3rd rounder, and a starting QB so they can destroy the most physically gifted player we have had at the position in my lifetime...Way to lead...

The staunch but unsupported opinions that too often permeate this blog continue to amaze me. Joe is the one that bugs me today.The machinations of running an organization as complex as a professional football team are far more complicated than too many bloggers realize. People's lives are affected by rash decisions,and players' careers can be easily destroyed by too quick a judgment.I wish that the "win at all cost " mentality had seen its day.With the drug problems, concussions , vicious hits, and serious injuries resulting from them, I'm all for bringing to the front the concept that "the way you play the game" is more important than winning or losing.

Hehehehe, hahahahaha, oh Lovie made the list. But don't worry folks he will return next year.

Hey Where does Jack Pardee land on the list???
Or lovable Abe G.

Pumpkinoodle read the article man. Coaches the last 20 years, Pardee has not coached in the league for 30 years and never coached for more than 3 years in a row. This is long term bad coaching. Gibron has been out of the league 40 years.

The year is 2010 now.

Paul unfortunatly this is the pro's. You get paid to win and you get paid a lot. You got a lot nerve defending the coach and Angelo and talking about cuncusions in the same sentence. Are those not the two men who have put Cutlers health risk? Hasn't already had one cuncussion this year? That wasn't his fault, it is well documented that the organization has ignored the O-Line for years now.

Something you need to understand. You play to win the game. That's why you play. It's a contact sport and people get hurt. That is not Joe's fault he did not invent the game and he does not own the Bears or the nfl.

Win at all cost you ask? These players have very good lives and they can do with their lives what they want. They choose to play the game and they love. If some of them do drugs as you mention that is their choice.

Look I only played prep football, but even then we played to win and did everything we could to do it and we loved it. I have bum knee, I had a cuncussion, a shoulder I can't fully rotate, early stages of arthritus in my other knee, over 20 stiches, 2 broken fingers, multiple dislocations, and two bad feet. Anyone who played probably has a list similar to this. I wouldn't trade those injuries for my time playing football.

Now these people have jobs, and they get paid and if they can;t do their jobs then they should be gone.

Paul Manter must be Paul McCaskey, another shirttail relative collecting a stipend from grandpa's estate. How else can ANYONE defend the awful hires the McCaskey family has made over the last decade, and then allowing them to continue the poor performance for YEARS ! Please Paul, tell me which Jerry Angelo pick is headed to Canton ? Rex ? Michael Haynes ? the underacheiving Tommie ? Olsen ? Stop yourself ! This is a braindead organization that values their pennies more than W's on Sunday !

Paul,

Let me first start out by saying that I don't know any of the bloggers on this site on a personal level. And Mr. Felicelli doesn't need me to back him up, but back him up I will. You use the terms "staunch but unsupported." You obviously don't know what unsupported means because he did SUPPORT his argument with facts. It is due, in part {small part, mind you, but still in part}, to fans such as yourself, that has enabled this organization to wallow in mediocrity for so long. Fans like you make excuse after excuse as to why Lovie and Jerry are failing. It has been almost 4 seasons since the Bears were in the playoffs. What core of nice young players are on this roster that screams "Angelo gets it"? And don't give me Knox, Hester, Manning, Webb, etc.

I don't believe in knee jerk reactions {your beloved GM does.}, but when a GM has failed year after year and Joe, forget the last 4 years, he's been a failure since day 1. He and his staff can't evaluate talent. They don't know in which round to draft certain players. They get hosed by their in division rivals for draft choices and trades. And Angelo has no clue what a players trade value is. {See Gaines Adams for reference.} "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the show"?

As for Lovie. Wow, where do I begin? He portrays himself as this humble, quiet, guy. BS! His ego is so big, it's a wonder it will fit down the tunnel at Soldier Field. Just look at the Riviera situation and then his comments at the big press conference back in the winter. On top of that, how many games has he been out coached in 3 years? {Cincy, Atlanta, from last year come to mind right away. Seattle is one from this year.} And he has cost the Bears wins by his clock management and use of the challenge flag.

The Bears have their full allotment of draft choices this next year. Do you really want Angelo with those in his back pocket? Not me. I don't want the 6th or 7th best tackle prospect with a mid teens first round pick. Or a DT with bum knees. Or a 2nd round WR that should have been taken in the 5th round. Or a RB that needs a Chicago Phone book to see over the steering wheel.

And this "it's how you play the game" vs. whether you win or lose is such liberal BS. It's that attitude that permeates our school systems, our youth sports leagues {can't keep score till the kiddies are 10.}, and most institutions of learning. It's the attitude that is causing us to be further behind China, Japan, Tiawan, and India with regard to GNP and technological advancement. Winning is everything. BUT when you win, do it like a man and when you lose, do it like a man. Let it burn your insides, but walk over, shake hands and congratulate your opponent. We as Bear's fans should expect what the Patriots, Colts, Packers, Giants, Ravens, and Chargers fans get on a year in and year out basis. The prospect and opportunity that their team will represent their fans and city in the post season.

Go ask Butkus or if he was still with us, Payton, or the Bears of 86 and 87 if it's about winning or how you play the game. After 85, the ones with drive craved the SB again. Look at Hampton on the sidelines crying in his last game when the Bears lost. That image still haunts me to this day. A guy with fingers pointing N, S, E, & W all at the same time, knees that popped like rice krispies, and he's bawling. There's a real man for you. If only these guys had that will and desire to win.

Here's the link to the Deadspin story:

http://deadspin.com/5681041/the-10-worst-long+tenured-head-coaches-of-the-past-20-years

Dear Virginia McCaskey, if you fire Lovie at the end of this season, can you please bring in Rich Kotite and give him a 50-year contract? He's the bestest and wonderfulest coach who ever stepped foot on a football field, and would be a perfect fit for the Bears. Love and kisses XOXO,

Kevvy B.

My! My! I must have struck some nerves of the guys who have bought into the Lombardi Schtick that " winning isn't everything; it"s the only thing." Of course a player plays to win, but that does not mean you carry a blackjack with you if you start to lose."Cheap shots" are "cheap shots" no matter what the sport is, but too often they do determine the winner or loser of a game. The concept of "the end justifying the means" is obviously widely supported, but personally, I'll pass on that concept and reject it every time I encounter it. The teams I have coached generally won "sportsmanship trophies,"knew the rules, and abided by them or sat on the bench. We even won a few games and a championship or two with a "the way you play the game" philosophy.

Hey Paul how do you think they should play the game? I am guessing flags are part of the future of your NFL. I hate to break it to you but Pee wee football is not the nfl. Hahahahahahaha. Now your off on a kick about cheap shots which nobody has mentioned, why are you changing the subject? You already blew your first point which was not even made well and now you have moved on to cheap shots. Tell me what do cheap shots have to do with the article in question? The answer is nothing, it has nothing to do with what Joe said, it has nothing to do with what is being talked about. I think you just wanted to talk about being a coach of a pee wee flag football team.

I think I found the perfect sport for you to watch. It's called the WNBA, enjoy.

Come on Paul quit blowing smoke, its a game, it has contact, and it is fun.

Actually , Creighton, I coached hockey, which, in case you didn't know, is a contact sport. Also, "cheap shots" are when star players who can change the outcome of a game are hit with the intent of forcing them to leave the game because of injuries.Perrhaps you never realized that such things can determine a win or loss. I thought such a connection was self-evident. I guess I'll have to consider the mentality of blog-readers like you in the future and use simpler language.

No way would I like to play in the WNBA. Have you seen the size and attitude of most of those women?