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
good league liked player
I've always liked him. I think he'll be a very good player in the league someday.
field football goals good
We're a good football team, and I know we'll show that on the field this year. Our goals ... you know what our goals are. We're a good team, here are our goals, let's see what happens.
good player
That was big. He is a good player who had an outstanding season, and it was good to see him get that.
beat good
We just want to play good football. We don't want to beat ourselves.
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.
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?
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.
good saw
I didn't get a good look at it and they called it an incompletion anyway. That's how we saw it.
bit coming farther good improving individual players position third wondering
It's good to have our players. We know who they are. Third year, we're not wondering what position to put players in. We're just concentrating on improving each individual player and going a little bit farther this coming season.
brought good mindset supposed understood
We brought in good players, why should we be bad? We never understood that. We had the mindset that we were supposed to be good right away.
change fit good kansas last louis system wrong year
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.
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.
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.