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...
bothered football himself
The thing that bothered me more than anything is he put himself before the football team. To me that's selfish. He's selfish. He shouldn't do that.
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,
against ball chance football hold played win
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.
close equal felt football issue money obviously order team trade value
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.
bad dropped field five missed worse
We had 13 penalties, five turnovers, two missed field goals, dropped balls, missed tackles and bad coverage. It doesn't get any worse than that.
question
The question with him is if he can block.
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.
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.
camp draft enthusiasm everybody familiar good guys including key last needed taking
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.
chance football gives healthy involved team
We're going to try to get everyone involved and keep Deuce healthy if we can, ... If we have a healthy Deuce McAllister on this football team and Antowain Smith, it gives us a better chance to win.