Chicago Bears HEAD COACH LOVIE SMITH - Ingles

Friday, January 21, 2011

Opening Remarks

“When you go through a week like we have, you try to go through the same routine, which we have, but you can’t wait until Friday to get here. The game plan is in, finish up strong inside. There is not a whole lot that I can complain about. We have great health with our football team. Chris Harris was able to do some things today so we feel like we’ll have our entire group ready to go for that and just feel like we’re ready to play. Playing at Soldier Field is always special. Our crowd has helped us so many games around here. Last week they were outstanding. We’ll need them this week too. The combination of special teams, offense, defense and of course our fourth phase, the fans, are a hard combination to beat. We couldn’t be pumped up more to play this football game, realize what it means to football fans in general, but really for the Chicago fans.”

On what it will take for QB Jay Cutler to play his best game after two tough games against the Packers

“It has been a couple - I guess you could say - tough games. We’ve had opportunities though. As much as anything, when you come down to a game like this, if you just protect the football a little bit – we had opportunities last time. There were a couple picks that hurt us, but that’s what happened in the past. We are really looking forward to this next opportunity. I think offense probably looked at that game – the last game I’m talking about – and felt like they had more opportunities to put more points on the board. Jay’s had a great week of practice. There’s no reason to think he’s not going to play the best game he’s played as a Bear.”

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