Chicago Bears HEAD COACH LOVIE SMITH - Ingles

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Opening Remarks

“We held out two players – Pisa Tinoisamoa and Chris Harris. Both of them are getting better. Pisa is just a normal routine we take him through. Chris Harris is making progress. Hopefully we’ll be able to get him on the football field tomorrow. It’s not a must. In an ideal world you would have the players at least practice Friday, but for a guy like Chris Harris if he couldn’t make it tomorrow we would let it go right up until game time. I think he’ll be ok. We really need him back there. He’s played great ball for us throughout – just having a veteran back there, for all he does for us. Practice-wise, it was good getting outside today. As a general rule, when the weather is bad, we try to at least get one day outside. We’ve been able to get two days out this week so we feel like we are ready for the conditions. It’s our home field. We know what we’re dealing with outside in the elements here. Everyday gets us a little bit closer. Of course, we can’t wait to play. You’ve had the chance to talk to all of our players. They’re all excited about playing a game like this.”

On keeping the routine as normal as possible

“We don’t change up. When we travel we leave the facility the same time, we get on the same time. When we’re here at home, it’s the same routine we go through. Besides changing the press conference from the media room, it’s a normal week for us. We would definitely like to keep it that way.

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