Lovie Smith Speaks, But Says Nothing

If you don’t mind, I’d like to rant about the Chicago Bears for a second. I know, we haven’t updated this site in almost a month, and to break the streak I’m going to talk about a shitty football team? Well kinda. Not exactly. Part of this rant goes out to the media as well. Yeah I know, the Chicago Bears and the media playing fish in my barrel. Whatever, I’m just riffing right now.

I was listening to Lovie Smith on the radio addressing the media following their first pre-season game last weekend, and I got to thinking, why does Lovie even have press conferences? He never says anything that we don’t already know from simply watching the game. Here’s a typical Lovie Smith press conference:

“We saw some things we liked out there. Other things we can obviously improve on. As for injuries, Major Wright had a finger, Caleb Hanie had a shoulder, and Craig Steltz had an ankle. We don’t know the severities, but they’re all being evaluated and hopefully they’ll be back on the football field soon.”

That’s it. That’s all he’ll say. He won’t discuss strategy and he won’t offer any inside information. Which of course is his right. He doesn’t have to tell me anything if he doesn’t want to. But I ask this in all seriousness and caps: WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF HAVING A PRESS CONFERENCE THEN?!? Major Wright has a finger? Of course he does. Caleb Hanie hurt his shoulder? Yeah no shit, we were fucking watching. I had the game up on my television device. I saw the play. He was sandwiched between two guys and it looked like it hurt. Then he grabbed his shoulder. I assumed by his actions after the play that he, you know, hurt his fucking shoulder. So seriously, what’s the point of having Lovie Smith stand in front of a podium and tell us that…and nothing else? It’s all so stupid.

Bears fans have been watching this same routine since 2004. At what point does it end? I understand that Lovie doesn’t want to give up too much information and show his hand, but honestly, we’re talking about a football team that wins 7 games every year. We’re not talking about some great secret. So how ’bout we end this stupid routine where Lovie Smith has to talk to the media. It’s silly and pointless for everyone involved.

Okay, my rant is over. Got anything else you wanna talk about?