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Hangar18
02-28-2007, 07:23 PM
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6517196

glad they're keeping him
samram
02-28-2007, 07:41 PM
Wow, and with only 340 days to spare. Damn cheapskates, dragging it out like this.
Efilnikufesin
02-28-2007, 07:55 PM
This guy sucks.> I want Dick J back.
Hangar18
02-28-2007, 07:59 PM
Wow, and with only 340 days to spare. Damn cheapskates, dragging it out like this.

there is speculation the Bears had their eye on someone else ( I wonder who?) and they dragged it out as long as they could. Well, he got some big years now, the bear gamble (if it was a gamble) blew up on them.
samram
02-28-2007, 08:08 PM
there is speculation the Bears had their eye on someone else ( I wonder who?) and they dragged it out as long as they could. Well, he got some big years now, the bear gamble (if it was a gamble) blew up on them.

They didn't have their eye on anyone else. Angelo hired Lovie- he is Angelo's coach. Lovie was going to coach the Bears in 2007 no matter what. The only "dragging out" was the Bears' daring, against the Sun-Times demands, to actually negotiate instead of handing Lovie a blank check, the bastards. There was no gamble, it was a negotiation. The Bears could afford to pay Lovie three times what he's getting and still make tons of money.
Hangar18
02-28-2007, 08:10 PM
you would think Lovie would be a little angry about all of this and not want to re-sign at all .........
samram
02-28-2007, 08:23 PM
you would think Lovie would be a little angry about all of this and not want to re-sign at all .........

Why would he be angry? He got a five year extension at $4.7 million a year before he entered the final year of his contract. His spaz of an agent made things seem worse than they were.
3D23
02-28-2007, 08:48 PM
Why would he be angry? He got a five year extension at $4.7 million a year before he entered the final year of his contract. His spaz of an agent made things seem worse than they were.

*DING DING DING* We have a weiner!
maurice
03-01-2007, 11:54 AM
Why would he be angry? He got a five year extension at $4.7 million a year before he entered the final year of his contract.

QFT.

The Chicago media has an unnatural obsession with bitching about teams for not promptly extending guys who are a year or more away from free agency . . . unless the guy plays for the Beloved Cub.
maurice
03-01-2007, 01:25 PM
http://www.chicagoist.com/attachments/chicago_benjy/2007_03_sports_lovie_smith_extension.jpg