APEvery NFL team currently will start training camp with a 90-man roster that has maybe 30 rookies and first-year players on it, and teams will enter the regular season with a 53-man roster that has maybe 10 rookies and first-year players on it. So somewhere around 600 rookies and first-year players will get cut this summer. Bears coach Lovie Smith has some advice for the young guys on his team for how to avoid being among that 600: Do something in practice that makes you stand out.
In a video on the Bears’ website showing scenes from the team’s first rookie minicamp practice, Smith implores the rookies to do something that gets them noticed by the coaching staff.
“It’s time to go to work now,” Smith said at the beginning of the workout. “Do something to make us take notice. You’re trying to win a job and help us win a championship.”
After the practice, Smith emphasized that message again.
“Some guys stood out a little bit today, made us take notice,” Smith told the rookies afterward. “And that’s what you want to do—but not just one day. You want to do it over and over. Two more practices. All we ask you to do is just improve a little bit tomorrow.”
The majority of the rookies who heard that message will be gone by the start of the regular season. The ones who “stood out a little bit” have a better chance of staying.
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Green Bay seems to be fixture, Detroit is rising like a Phoenix from the ashes, the Bears have all the weapons needed to take a shot….NFC North has quietly become the number one or two division in the League.
Same applies to the AFC North.
One of the rookies took a dump on the field just to get noticed.
Coaches were saying nice Move!!!! Is that a Cleveland Steamer?
Motivational speeches are always cool. It’s what makes good coaches in the NFL. You should check out The Texans website, they have some good interviews where things like that happen.
……and you too can end up like Matt Forte
I would call Lovie Smith’s speeches “motivation” – he makes watching paint dry feel like a carnival ride…
@jerrysandusky1 and we’ve got the vikes for comic relief
Plenty of training camp fights coming, I would guess.
Lovie is looking for a star to suprize his division with .. I hope he finds a few cause its time for Chicago to get some new RINGS an for Lovie to get a new contract, GO BEARS