Numbers That May Only Interest Me - Lovie's Losing

I don't know if these will interest anyone else, but I did some research on how Lovie's teams have handled blowout losses in the past.

First, this seems to have happened a lot to Lovie's teams over his career. There will be clunkers, folks. It just seems to happen.

11 times Lovie's teams suffered a loss of 20 or more points. The good news is the following week, they posted a record of 7-4. So typically, they bounced back. Previous to Thursday Night, Lovie's worst loss in the NFL was a 45-10 loss in 2009 to the Cincinnati Bengals. The next week, the Bears bounced back and pounded their oppenent, Cleveland, 30-6.

2009 was a particularly bad year for the Bears, where they suffered not one, not two but four losses of 20 or more. They were 3-1 following those losses.

This isn't to suggest the Bucs will beat Pittsburgh this week, but I will say that only once in 11 attempts were the Bears blown out again following the previous blowout loss.

While researching this, I saw some other interesting anomalies. The Bucs are currently on a 3 game losing streak under Lovie (we're not counting the 3 game losing streak to end the season by Schiano, so in a sense the Bucs are on a six game skid, by I digress).

Lovie has had losing streaks of three or more games six times in his NFL career. His teams have never made the playoffs in seasons where he had a losing streak of 3 or more games. The best finish was Lovie's final year in Chicago where the team finished 10-6. The worst was his first year, where they finished 5-11.