Fantasy Make-Over, No Love For Lovie

Gregg is back. All is normal in the world. We taped our first Fantasy Baseball and Football shows together today in the new studio. It looks awesome!

The two of us do the show sitting on stools... which of course brought back to life the great debate on who is really taller. Me or Gregg? I'll let you judge that one.

One thing we didn't talk about in the show was the situation with Lovie Smith and the Chicago Bears. I can't seem to grasp the concept that the man who took a team to the Super Bowl (a team that hasn't played in a Super Bowl since 1985) is the lowest paid coach in the NFL. What? Does that make sense to you? At all? He was Coach of the Year in 2005. I mean Rex Grossman, love him or hate him, had a guaranteed one million dollar bonus in his contract just for making it to the Super Bowl. No, he didn't have to win the game to get the extra money. He just had to go.

Lovie made $1.35 million last season. Now to you and me, that's a lot of money. However within the NFL coaching world, Smith is the lowest paid coach on the list. As in 31 other head coaches made more money then him YET only one other head coach besides Smith was able to take his team to the Super Bowl: Tony Dungy.

At the Super Bowl in Miami, people could not speak highly enough of Lovie Smith. The entire week people repeatedly had such respect towards this man. Players, reporters and analysts had nothing but nice things to say about him as a coach, leader, and most importantly as a person. It's a shame that the Bears aren't treating him with the same respect.