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
company quite saying
Once you get into company with Walter Payton, that's saying quite a bit.
anybody company course football good line offensive quite regular running saying season team thomas year
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.
good league liked player
I've always liked him. I think he'll be a very good player in the league someday.
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.
felt looked
You take all things into consideration when you're making changes. We looked at everything and felt that this was the way to go.
defense defensive pressure
Our defense is about four-man pressure and now we feel like we have a 'bell cow' at defensive end,
good saw
I didn't get a good look at it and they called it an incompletion anyway. That's how we saw it.
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.
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.