Jeff Hartings Quotes on Time (9 Quotes)

I tell him all the time, 'Play your game, don't stay in the pocket for us,'

He would always have his head down in the huddle, looking at that wristband of his all the time. Now, he has his head up. He's confident he understands what's going on.

It really comes down to calling the right play at the right time. Hopefully as veterans we can pick up some of those stunts and then have Willie see it, and with his speed we should hopefully take advantage of it.

What Willie has learned to do real well is recognize where the holes are going to be on a certain play against a certain defense. He's taken the 3- or 4-yard gain instead of trying to get 10, 15 or 50 all the time.

He does stuff like that all the time.

Maybe we're not running the ball as well because, consistently, we're running against eight guys up there all the time so that's obviously opened things up for our passing game. On game day, we'll see what happens. Do they want to stop the pass and see if we can run the ball to win Or do they want to stop the run first and make us pass to win We'll have to do whatever they give us.

Every game it seems like they have a little different game plan, whether they pinch the ends or run stunts in the middle. I don't think the Seattle defense does as much as just that the middle linebacker is just that good. He's fast, he's quick and when you have 320-pound lineman running after you and you're 230 and run a 4.4 or 4.5, you're going to be free a lot of the time. It's hard to get on him.

It's worked out all right. They were going to basically clean house, and I didn't know at the time if I wanted to be involved with something like that, especially when we were not very far away from becoming very competitive.

I talked to him on the sideline and I kind of got a sense that this might be his last game. As much as I think he'd like to come back, I think he realizes there is not a whole lot left in the tank after 13,000 yards. It's tough for me to think about going through this whole thing again. That's why you have to take some time. You take a month or two and evaluate as soon as the emotion is out of the way.