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
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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.
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Rex definitely showed some improvement. The offense put 24 points on the board; that's a step in the right direction.
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We definitely think he can be a part of the stretch run. That's why once you see an injury like that, you are expecting the worst. We have a stretch run we're coming upon, and we need all of our guns. Cedric is a big part of what we're trying to do running the football. Our other guys will have to pick up the slack until he gets back.
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We definitely think he can be a part of the stretch run.
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We'd definitely take that. It's documented what our offense did last year. A lot has changed since then.
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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.
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We're definitely comfortable with putting him out there. We don't know exactly how much. We won't rush him back. We don't know yet whether he'll return kickoffs and how much he'll play in nickel coverage. But we feel like he'll play.
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I'm sure Kyle won't be the happiest guy given the fact this brings another quarterback into the mix, but he's a competitor. We like Kyle very much.
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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.
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The cornerbacks get behind. They can go through a spell where they misjudge the ball. It's no more than that for Charles. We're not going to completely change his game. The next time we play, he'll be in a little bit better position.
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I like what we're doing offensively. I'm not really interested in passing for 400 yards. We're just interested in getting the win. We're a running football team.
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It's important to have your leader there, just like having a defensive leader or having a coaching staff in place for a while. All of these things add up.
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It looked a lot worse than it was.
continue talk
We talk a lot about their defense, and I'm going to continue to talk a lot about our defense,