CHICAGO BEARS, LOVIE SMITH - Ingles

NFC CHAMPIONSHIP

Chicago Bears vs. Green Bay Packers

Sunday, January 23, 2011 - Soldier Field - Chicago, IL

Opening Statement

“First, I want to congratulate the Green Bay Packers. Mike McCarthy is a heck of a football coach and really had their group ready to go. Felt good about the effort that our team gave too. Came up a little short today. Early on, when you get down 14-0, that’s tough, 14-0 and you lose your starting quarterback. But our guys just continued to fight, giving ourselves the chance to win the game at the end. Again, going back to them offensively, too many big pass plays on their part early on. When we had the ball offensively, we weren’t able to get it on third down, it really hurt us. But again, we got it going. We got the running game going, got the passing game going at the end and never got an awful lot from our return game. But when you got a team like that, you know, it’s a lot of give-and-take. Again, there’s a lot of disappointment in the locker room, feel like we made progress with our program this year and eventually we’ll put that ring on.”http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

On whether it was a team or player decision for Jay Cutler to play

“No player decision. For us, Jay hurt his knee, he couldn’t go. He tried to go, that last series there of the first half, took a shot to the knee, tried to go, went in and worked on him a little bit at the half but he came out. He just couldn’t go, team, doctors and all, there was no decision really. He was injured.”

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