Jim Haslett
Jim Haslett
James Donald Haslettis an American football coach and former linebacker, who is currently the linebackers coach for the Cincinnati Bengals. Previously, he served as the head coach for the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League, and the New Orleans Saints and St. Louis Rams in the National Football League...
clean field giving hurt seattle short work
Turnovers hurt us in the first half, giving Seattle a short field to work with. Those are things we have to clean up, and we will.
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To get off to a good start, we needed everybody in, including our draft picks. We wanted to get the new guys and the young guys familiar with what we are doing, ... Really, we wanted the enthusiasm taking off from where it was last year, so it was a key thing that we got everybody into camp on time.
holding
What am I going to do about a holding call?
agree full giving happen players
The players know how I feel, and I think they agree with me. If (quitting and not giving full effort) does happen with one or two players, we'll get them out of here.
answered phone wife
The phone rang, and my wife answered it. She said Scott was on the phone, and she kind of mumbled a (last) name. I said, 'Tell him I'm not home.
improve
There are a lot of things we can improve on,
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When you hold the ball for 36 minutes, you have the chance to win football games. We played like we wanted to play (against Buffalo). That's how we played against Carolina.
call chicken
The play at the end, the call by the officials, is flat-out chicken (. . .),
bad cut few last played traveling weeks
We've got to cut those things out. Let's not make excuses. Us traveling the last few weeks really don't have anything to do with our play on the field. We've played bad the last two weeks.
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We've had really good practices. They've been high tempo. We've paid attention to detail in practice. We just haven't taken it to the field for whatever reason.
deal flow great handling job players situation thrown
There is something that comes up every day. You just have to kind of go with the flow and just deal with it. If I overreact to everything that happens, first of all, I would probably be in the nuthouse. I don't want the players to overreact. They have done a great job of handling any situation that has been thrown at them.
deal flow great handling job players situation thrown
There is something that comes up every day, ... You just have to kind of go with the flow and just deal with it. If I overreact to everything that happens, first of all, I would probably be in the nuthouse. I don't want the players to overreact. They have done a great job of handling any situation that has been thrown at them.
built case denying deserve effort fans foundation good past players proud provide record results strides team tough unexpected
This was a tough season, and the club, players and fans deserve better. There were some unexpected challenges, but in any case our record isn't good enough. I think we've built a foundation here for the team to make considerable strides in the future, and our achievements in the past are something I'll be proud of. But there is no denying all of the effort we put in didn't provide the results you need in this league.
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We thought that Darren's value to this football team was a lot, ... It was just a money issue at the time, and in order to trade Darren we wanted equal value. The only team that was even close was Dallas. But obviously we felt it wasn't equal value what they wanted to offer.