The coincident economic index also declined in November

First of all, Lovie didn’t want him getting the credit when Lovie is the defensive guy. He had Babbich coaching the LBs and knew that Babbich would be his perfect coordinator. Lovie’s defense is Bob’s defense and someone like Babbich isn’t going to stand up to Lovie because he knows his years as DC was the pinnacle of his coaching career. The second reason is pretty simple; Rivera became a top DC in the league and Angelo/Philips/McCaskey didn’t want to pay top dollar for a coordinator or even a coach for that matter (Lovie was the least paid coach the year of the Super Bowl). End of story.Being stoic in the NFL can be a good thing, especially for a head coach.

However, when "your" way isn’t working or you simply don’t have the personnel to do things "your" way then adjustments need to be made, plain and simple. Those changes, however, never happen. What happens is that Bears fans get to watch sloppy, poor play on Sunday and wait for Lovie’s press conference that will sound like this...“We went out, we played our game plan and we came up a little short. We’re going to go back to practice and keep working on what we do and get our system back on track ... On defense, they could try something other than playing about 10 yards off the line of scrimmage in coverage.On offense, maybe they could stop chucking it up to Olsen 24/7 and try running the ball a bit more, and by run I mean not up the middle every time. Forte can run for 30 yards on a screen off to the side or a toss but we keep plugging this guy up the middle and it’s just not working.Also, Jay will be the quarterback for the next half decade, at least. However, if he feels the need to throw three or more interceptions, maybe he could spend the fourthquarter on the bench (NOT permanently but just for the game); immediate reaction might be “you can’t bench a franchise QB!” but, didn’t Philly bench McNabb last year after a poor start Didn’t the Eagles take A LOT of flak for this move Didn’t McNabb start the next week, have a great game and ended up making the playoffs Isn’t McNabb currently in one of his best stretches since that benching Trust me, if they benched Cutler for a quarter all that would happen is one of the biggest frowns Cutler’s ever had in his career; they would not be risking losing Cutler.The Bears constantly appear inept because they are spineless from McCaskey on down. Phillips job is to protect the bank, Angelo’s job is to build a team and Lovie’s job is to coach that team. Not one of those guys has any penchant for rocking the boat or doing something not “Bearsish” (outside of the Cutler deal, and I know I made up a word).Since they haven’t won in over two decades, it might be time for someone inside of Halas Hall to realize that "business as usual" isn’t working and isn’t going to work, period.They need change. The Conference Board Leading Economic Index (LEI) for Japan and RelatedComposite Economic Indexes for November 2008NEW YORK, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ The Conference Board leading economic index(LEI) for Japan decreased 2.6 percent and The Conference Board CoincidentEconomic Index (CEI) decreased 0.9 percent in November.The leading economic index registered another sharp decline inNovember,following an equally large decline in October.

In November, most oftheleading indicators continued their downward trend. With November'slarge decline, the six-month growth rate for the leading index fell to-10.4 percent (about a -19.8 percent annual rate) from May to November2008, the weakest in more than 33 years. Moreover, during the last sixmonths, the weaknesses among the leading indicators continued to beverywidespread.The coincident economic index also declined in November. Industrialproduction and the real retail, wholesale, and manufacturing salescomponents both made large negative contributions to the index. Thesix-month growth rate of the coincident index fell to -3.3 percent (a-6.4 percent annual rate), also its lowest level since 1975. Theweaknesses among the coincident indicators continued to be verywidespread, as all four components declined in the last six months.