Smith said he wanted to fill all the vacancies before the Superbowl and he showed he was serious by promoting defensive line coach, Rod Marinelli to defensive coordinator on Friday.

Lovie resigned as the defensive coordinator this season following a sub-par performance. Eric Washington, the assistant defensive line coach, will take Marinelli's place in charge of the defensive line.

Marinelli won't bring anything new to the table, still the same old Tampa 2 defense. Lovie will always be a big part of what the defense does, so no matter who they hired it wouldn't have made too much of a difference. The promotion was somewhat expected after Marinelli said he was fine with filling that role and later Smith said they would be comfortable hiring in-house.

Definitely not a big deal for the team. But for now, we'll just have to wait and see...

Go Bears.