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You can hear skepticism related to Smith all over the radio and TV and slowly spreading to the barrooms and boardrooms. Reflexively, we love to find fault with him. Bears victories are apocryphal, losses create football Armageddon. Some of the persistent doubt is valid, some of it isn’t, but all of it represents the passion the Bears ignite in the NFL’s second-largest market. Tigers fans unhappy about his decisions as the team's third-base coach probably won't believe it, but the Boston Red Sox reportedly will interview Gene Lamont for their managerial job Saturday.