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.
good player
That was big. He is a good player who had an outstanding season, and it was good to see him get that.
best dream felt football hopefully hurt player stopped team time work
Personally, it hurt when you tell a player his dream has been stopped for a while, but we had to do what was best for our football team and we felt like this was what was best at this time and hopefully it will work out for Marc, too.
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.
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.
feeling minus players sorry step
We're not feeling sorry for ourselves. We're minus one of our players but we have a lot of other players who will step up to the plate.
best core next players reason squad stand year
That's what we would like to think. I do think our core players are in place. They're established, and they're young. I don't think this is our best squad that we'll have. I think next year will be a better squad than we had this year. There's no reason why we shouldn't be able to make a stand for a long time.
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.
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.
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Charles has been through a lot this year. He had a tough spell early in the season. He came back after that. Good football players eventually play that way. That's just a huge play.
continue talk
We talk a lot about their defense, and I'm going to continue to talk a lot about our defense,
defense defensive pressure
Our defense is about four-man pressure and now we feel like we have a 'bell cow' at defensive end,
asked team thomas
Team leader, he's done everything we have asked him to do. Thomas is our guy.