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
asked team thomas
Team leader, he's done everything we have asked him to do. Thomas is our guy.
assume far game injuries late outcome sure
Sometimes late in the week, injuries happen. It had no outcome on the game as far as we're concerned. I assume everybody's going by the rules, which I'm sure they were.
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There was nothing wrong with the system. The system we had last year is working in St. Louis and Kansas City. It just wasn't a good fit for us. Once you know it ... you've got to change it.
bigger game none plays
There were a lot of big plays in the game but none any bigger than that, really.
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.
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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.
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This is one of our biggest wins since I've been here.
consider definitely deserve football good opportunity players
Some players deserve an opportunity to play and Roberto is definitely one of those. He's a good football player. We consider him a starter.
good player realize
So we just realize we're going to get a good player and that's what's exciting.
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Once you get into company with Walter Payton, that's saying quite a bit.
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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.
As of now, he's not in the rotation. We want to take a look at the other guys.
best core next players reason squad stand year
That's what we would like to think. I do think our core players are in place. They're established, and they're young. I don't think this is our best squad that we'll have. I think next year will be a better squad than we had this year. There's no reason why we shouldn't be able to make a stand for a long time.
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We've seen improvement each day. And it shown, he's given us a taste of it each game that he's played lately the last two football games,