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
control good led reads supposed
I thought he was in control of the game, managed it well, ... He led us. He made the right reads and made good throws. He did what quarterbacks are supposed to do.
guys step
We had a lot of guys step up today.
bad hit
We have a kicker that's hit some bad balls, and he has to get it right.
beat good
We just want to play good football. We don't want to beat ourselves.
brought early energy football liked needed offense team
We needed to get the offense kick-started a little bit. Rex has come from a lot to go down like he did early in the preseason. ... We really liked the energy he brought to our football team when we brought him in.
adrian good job line offensive plane running thomas
We get off the plane running the ball. Cedric Benson, Thomas Jones, Adrian Peterson all did a good job ... What can I say about the offensive line I haven't said?
We had opportunities but we couldn't put it away. We've got to find a way to win.
bit case caused defend definitely excellent football quite shop stay trying
I think they definitely should shop him and get him out of the division. I don't know if that is the case or not. I just know he's an excellent football player. He's caused us to stay up quite a bit trying to defend him.
downs excited game half kyle percent potential rest second third
Kyle was 83 percent converting third downs in the second half (5-of-6). He got better as the game went along. We know he'll get better as we go. We're excited about his potential the rest of the year.
kyle needs situation stronger
Kyle needs to go through a situation like that, ... From the way I see it, he'll come back stronger from it.
felt football last team total won
Last week, we won as a football team and everything went right for us. Today, it felt like the total opposite.
game today
We thought we had better receivers going into the game today for us.
adding ball dimension offense
He's adding something new, a different dimension to our offense being able to get the ball down the field.
davis kicks return
Going into the game, we did not know Davis could return kicks like that.