89 Quotes by Lovie Smith

Last year we had quite a few sacks ... I think 66 or so. This year we gave up 31. Quite a bit of an improvement on that side.

Rex definitely showed some improvement. The offense put 24 points on the board; that's a step in the right direction.

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.

I didn't get a good look at it and they called it an incompletion anyway. That's how we saw it.

Ian Scott played as well as anyone on our defense.

Carolina wanted it more than we did. Twenty-one points, normally through the course of the year that would have been enough for us. Defensively going in, we talked about not giving up the big play. We were not able to do that.

Carl did an excellent job. We'll start over this week. With any of our backups, special teams are a big part.

Cedric's time will come. All first-round draft choices don't get a chance to play right away. Each situation is different.

Cedric is next in the rotation, but I was pleased with what Adrian Peterson did. He's a good running back.