Lovie Smith Players Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.