Looks like there's bad blood between Rivera and Lovie Smith

[Cat'sGrowl]

lol

Forgot the word "war" tends you scare you radical liberals off. I'll say hugfest next time, hope that's politically enough correct.

[Sam Mills Fan]

you gotta know the difference between firing and not renewing a contract before you keep assuming things, but you can look however you wanna look.

people still say fox was fired here and those idiots have no credibility either.

The NFL isn't like the rest of the world. You can absolutely say that Fox was fired by the Panthers and Rivera was fired from the Bears.

[Ricky Spanish]

SMF just loves to stir the pot... by golly does he

[Donald LaFell]

Forgot the word "war" tends you scare you radical liberals off. I'll say hugfest next time, hope that's politically enough correct.

Looool what? I think they just thought your line was cheesy I don't know what radical liberalism has to do with that.

[rodeo]

In Rivera's post-game press conference people were asking him about the Bears, and he mentioned that when he was released from Chicago he went to Smith and asked him if it was personal.

That struck me as odd. Normally you'd know it was just business and wouldn't even need to ask.

[Donald LaFell]

In Rivera's post-game press conference people were asking him about the Bears, and he mentioned that when he was released from Chicago he went to Smith and asked him if it was personal.

That struck me as odd. Normally you'd know it was just business and wouldn't even need to ask.

Prob because he was doing a pretty good job seemed like.

[Jackofalltrades]

They're all saying the right things, but I do think there's a personal intrigue in this game. Hard to dismiss what the Bear's D did during their SB run and then get fired.

[Cat'sGrowl]

Looool what? I think they just thought your line was cheesy I don't know what radical liberalism has to do with that.

He made one ridiculous unnecessary derogatory remark at me, I countered.

[Donald LaFell]

He made one ridiculous unnecessary derogatory remark at me, I countered.

I've never seen the term lol as too ridiculous or derogatory.

[jtnc]

Should be a fun game.

[SOJA]

at first I read the title as bad blood between rivera and steve smith and almost poo my pants

[beastson]

Panthers better go hard for Rivera Sunday

[dimbee]

They're all saying the right things, but I do think there's a personal intrigue in this game. Hard to dismiss what the Bear's D did during their SB run and then get fired.

Rivera was as "fired" as John Fox was. As in, he wasn't.

[Davidson Deac II]

Its interesting looking at the team stats. When Rivera was there, Chicago's defense was consistently top 5 or 10 in the league. After he left, rarely did they make top 10 in the league. Add that to the fact that San Diego's defense was terrible when he took over, and tops in the league when he left.

While there are probably a number of reasons why Chicago's defense went downhill, got to say that its possible they made a mistake letting Rivera go.