Lovie Smith
Lovie Smith
Lovie Lee Smithis the head football coach at the University of Illinois. He was previously the head coach of the Chicago Bears from 2004 to 2012, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 2014 to 2015. Smith has been to the Super Bowl twice, as the defensive coordinator for the 2001 St. Louis Rams and as the head coach for the Bears in 2006...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth8 May 1958
CityGladewater, TX
add area bring case couple few game players return talked type
The return game is an area that we talked about improving, and we did add a few guys, a couple players that can do that. You can make a case for every player that we have to bring us some type of help.
anyone played
Ian Scott played as well as anyone on our defense.
ball behind few pass situations tough
There were some tough situations for Cedric yesterday. We got behind and had to pass the ball a few times.
biggest since wins
This is one of our biggest wins since I've been here.
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Give Carolina credit. They wanted it more than we did. We tried to keep Steve Smith contained. We were unable to do that. He made a couple of big plays.
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Once you get into company with Walter Payton, that's saying quite a bit.
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You take all things into consideration when you're making changes. We looked at everything and felt that this was the way to go.
looked worse
It looked a lot worse than it was.
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Once you get in company with Walter Payton that's saying quite a bit. (It was) an outstanding year by Thomas and our offensive line to get that for him. I think we established that through the course of the regular season we are a good running football team and can run the football on just about anybody we play.
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I've always liked him. I think he'll be a very good player in the league someday.
good player realize
So we just realize we're going to get a good player and that's what's exciting.
changed definitely documented last offense since
We'd definitely take that. It's documented what our offense did last year. A lot has changed since then.
chance help kyle learn older
This will give Kyle a chance to learn from two older quarterbacks, which should only help his play as a quarterback.
beat good
We just want to play good football. We don't want to beat ourselves.