Lovie deserves, at the very least, the respect of the Bears fan base. He's still the best HC we've had in my lifetime and was a net overachiever based on the talent he was given to work with.
Hmm, I usually agree with your posts, but not this time.
First, giving Lovie credit because he was the tallest midget (relative to our other seriously inept HCs) is really nothing more than faint praise, IMO.
Second, IMO Lovie is just not a good HC, not by any stretch. Let's review -
* I've never seen a HC in the past decade do a poorer job at hiring coordinators and coaches, especially OC
* I've never seen a HC so completely hands-off and oblivious with the offense
* his teams' preparation and in-game adjustments were bad, really, really bad
* if Lovie hadn't been gifted with Url/Peanut/Tommie/Pep/Briggs/etc. - all players ideally suited for the Lovie-2 - combined with the best return player (and Toub) of the past decade, then Lovie would be a DC right now and over the past several years, as I believe his skill-set warrants