Lovie Smith Game Quotations

We're confident. It's been awhile since we've been 3-3 and where the next game means quite a bit. We're just trying to get respect. The NFC North has talked quite a bit about the records. But I see it getting better and I think we're leading the charge.

We thought we had better receivers going into the game today for us.

He managed the game well. He was in control of the game. He just led us. He made the right reads. He made good throws. He did what your quarterback is supposed to do, lead your team to a win.

Kyle was 83 percent converting third downs in the second half (5-of-6). He got better as the game went along. We know he'll get better as we go. We're excited about his potential the rest of the year.

We've seen improvement each day. And it shown, he's given us a taste of it each game that he's played lately the last two football games,

Sometimes late in the week, injuries happen. It had no outcome on the game as far as we're concerned. I assume everybody's going by the rules, which I'm sure they were.

How about those Bears! What a great game! To get over the hump and get to the next level, you have to win a game like this on the road.

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.

It was a tough loss for us today. Going into the game we thought we would be able to run the football against them and we weren't able to do that.

There were a lot of big plays in the game but none any bigger than that, really.

He played well for his first start. It wasn't a perfect game by any means, but he had some big plays. I thought he blitzed well.