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
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.
gave kyle offense pleased stepped
We're pleased with how Kyle Orton stepped in and gave the offense a boost.
changed definitely documented last offense since
We'd definitely take that. It's documented what our offense did last year. A lot has changed since then.
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.
adding ball dimension offense
He's adding something new, a different dimension to our offense being able to get the ball down the field.
brings fact given guy happiest kyle sure
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.
add area bring case couple few game players return talked type
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.
bit change next spell time
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.
football interested passing running
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.
add coaching defensive leader staff
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.
looked worse
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,
bit excited gotten jeff majority quite talking week
We're talking a lot about Kyle, but I'm excited about what Jeff will be able to do for us too. We will play Jeff quite a bit in this game. He will get the majority of the reps for this game. He hasn't gotten as many reps as Kyle, so this is an important week for him.
best players work
You have to play rookies, they're the best players we have. That's how we look at it. We're going to play the best players. We'd like for the best to have a lot of experience, but it doesn't work like that always.