Lovie overplayed his power after the super bowl lost, never settled the qb position, rode the cover 2 past our ability to supply it with talent, and hasnt been able to repeat that success since he was fired. He was clearly the best coach we've had since Ditka/Ryan, but to long for the days of Lovie is just revisionist. Would I take him over Fox? yes. Would I bring him back? no. Most of this is true, and yet they've had much worse head coaches since then. I don’t mean to say i hated Lovie as a coach, he was a very good coach. And Trestman and Fox both sucked coaching the Bears mightily. But even John Fox made it to more super bowls and has repeated his level of success on multiple teams. I miss the teams of the Lovie Smith era. I don’t really miss Lovie that much.