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
anyone played
Ian Scott played as well as anyone on our defense.
carolina course giving normally talked year
Carolina wanted it more than we did. Twenty-one points, normally through the course of the year that would have been enough for us. Defensively going in, we talked about not giving up the big play. We were not able to do that.
excellent special start teams
Carl did an excellent job. We'll start over this week. With any of our backups, special teams are a big part.
chance choices draft situation time
Cedric's time will come. All first-round draft choices don't get a chance to play right away. Each situation is different.
adrian good next pleased running
Cedric is next in the rotation, but I was pleased with what Adrian Peterson did. He's a good running back.
best players work
You have to play rookies, they're the best players we have. That's how we look at it. We're going to play the best players. We'd like for the best to have a lot of experience, but it doesn't work like that always.
bit excited gotten jeff majority quite talking week
We're talking a lot about Kyle, but I'm excited about what Jeff will be able to do for us too. We will play Jeff quite a bit in this game. He will get the majority of the reps for this game. He hasn't gotten as many reps as Kyle, so this is an important week for him.
continue talk
We talk a lot about their defense, and I'm going to continue to talk a lot about our defense,
definitely direction offense points step
Rex definitely showed some improvement. The offense put 24 points on the board; that's a step in the right direction.
awhile bit game leading means next north quite since talked trying
We're confident. It's been awhile since we've been 3-3 and where the next game means quite a bit. We're just trying to get respect. The NFC North has talked quite a bit about the records. But I see it getting better and I think we're leading the charge.
bit few gave improvement last quite year
Last year we had quite a few sacks ... I think 66 or so. This year we gave up 31. Quite a bit of an improvement on that side.
best dream felt football hopefully hurt player stopped team time work
Personally, it hurt when you tell a player his dream has been stopped for a while, but we had to do what was best for our football team and we felt like this was what was best at this time and hopefully it will work out for Marc, too.
defense defensive pressure
Our defense is about four-man pressure and now we feel like we have a 'bell cow' at defensive end,
good league liked player
I've always liked him. I think he'll be a very good player in the league someday.