Jim Haslett Quotes (146 Quotes)

The effort in practice today was good. If we can deal with this, we'll be a better football team in the long run.

I think being on the field and in the meetings is a time that's away from all that. It's good for your mind to get on the field and practice and be where you're with your peers.

If we wanted to give them a break, this was the time. They were dragging a little bit you could see it. It was good timing. The guys got excited about it. We had some good team chemistry, and I thought the rookie show was excellent.

Obviously, I have great interest in the job, there's lot of good things about it. I know the organization, I know Mr. Wilson. And it's a great place to live.

We had opportunities and we didn't make them. The defense played well enough to win all day except at the end.

They tell me that 10 percent of the population is miserable and unhappy all the time, and Kyle definitely falls in that 10 percent. The vast majority of our players wanted to see him go.

On defense, I thought the first group did well. If we do turn the ball over, I would like to see them hold them to field goals instead of touchdowns. But basically the defense did all right.

I was disappointed in the way we tackled. All in all, I thought we took a step backward.

I'm not used to this. I was a head coach for six years, so it's different taking a step back. But everybody tells me it'll be a good process, that it's not as stressful as the other one and there's a lot less to do. And it is. I've got a lot more free time now.

I think the time frame gives our fans time to get tickets or do whatever they have to do to get to the stadium.

The one thing I did learn this year is that things change fast. You've got to be able to adapt. I guess that's the way life is. You just don't know what things are going to change.

If you want to use the word we stunk on defense and we played probably good enough on offense but we still had opportunities to score more points. But we left them on the field.

He should have thrown it to Joe. He made a poor decision, and the next thing you know they're ahead 17-7.

We talked all week about how we kick field goals instead of scoring touchdowns and we came out and did the same thing.

He started for a couple of years in Jacksonville and was productive,

The loss against Green Bay was enough for a lifetime. Anytime you lose a player like Deuce you have to have him surrounded by people who can pick up their game. Everybody has to play better.

It's a shame because I thought that we played well enough to win, ... That last play of the game, and the call by the official, was a bad call. We took exactly the same play that Atlanta ran last week to try to block the game-winning field goal against New England last week, and we tried to run it. They didn't call it last week against Atlanta.

It is hard to defend the quarterback. He does a great job. He made a nice play. I guess his hand touched the pylon. I thought the ball was outside the pylon, but if any part of your body touches the pylon it is a touchdown.

It's a shame it happened, but there's lots of people worse off in this country than we are now.

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.

You can't kick field goals in this league and win games. It's just not going to happen.

You know, we take this thing day by day. I've been in four complexes in four weeks ... three hotels, now an apartment. But that has nothing to do with what we did on the field today -- we sucked on that field, if you want to know the truth.

We turned it over way too many times. It's a shame we didn't score more points. If you hold a team to 17 points you should win. We moved the ball well, we just didn't score enough.

I'm sure the grounds crews will take good care of the fields. And one thing about Louisiana, it is not hard to grow grass and get it fixed up and ready to grow the next day. Stuff grows fast down there.

I look up at the scoreboard and there are signs, 'Let's Go Giants'. The referees, when they flipped the coin, they asked us if we wanted heads or tails. They had no idea who the home team was and who was away. The crowd noise we had to deal with, we never had to do a silent count at home.

Safeties can't miss tackles. He's a young kid, he needs to keep working on that.

My kids enrolled here, but we've decided they're going to go back with my wife. They're going to go back around the first of October, when school starts.

Bah humbug I've been visited by the ghosts of Saints past, present, and future, and they don't wear white sheets like most ghosts. Instead, they wear brown paper bags over their heads. Anyway, they all said it was time for a change.

If you draft someone in the second round, you should feel comfortable with them. Hopefully, he can get playing time with the first team.

There was so much buildup, ... It was just one game, and it was built up like a Super Bowl for obvious reasons. We just didn't do a very good job.

We didn't make wholesale changes, ... There are less new parts than before. Everything we're doing, we're doing with a purpose. That's the way we ended last year with our last four games. I didn't feel like that early in the season last year.

It was a poor decision by Aaron. They were playing roll-up coverage, and he should have never thrown it.

It's amazing to watch. I played against Marino, and it's amazing to watch Manning perform.

In this business, guys get hurt and I think everybody else has to elevate their game. The defense has to play better, the quarterbacks are going to have to play better, the linemen are going to have to play better.

I think it is a great opportunity for Todd. I think the team will rally around him and give him the support. He's excited about the opportunity.

I've been in four complexes in four weeks, ... I've moved offices numerous times. I think three hotels and now an apartment.

He played pretty (darn) good, ... He's going to be a hell of a player.

Our guys are really resilient to things that go on. And they adapt to things very well, and there's not a lot of complaining, ... They just kind of do it, and they're on time, and they do everything right. That's all you can ask from a football team.

It was a poor decision by Aaron. He threw the ball and they were playing a rolled-up coverage. He never should have thrown it. It was a bad decision on his part.

That's something the staff will talk about tonight and tomorrow. We'll go with it as we see fit. There could be (changes), depending on what we see.

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.

Come kick-off time, though, it will - and must - be business as usual. Everybody on our team is heartbroken, ... They feel for the people. I think the one thing about our football team is that we're resilient. When we step on the field, we're focused. When we get off the field, our minds go somewhere else.

I'd like to have them here because we're practicing here, ... But I think we owe it to the state and the region to play a couple games in Baton Rouge if we can.

I think he's really matured this year, compared to his first couple years. We drafted him when he was a junior. People forget that he was (21) years old. I think he's really matured the last couple years, but this year it's evident by his play and taking care of himself and understanding that, in order for him to be a good football player, he has to take care of himself on and off the field.

I think it's a good rivalry. Any time we play them, we rise to the challenge. I think all our football games are close. Even the game we had in Baton Rouge (in November) in front of about 10,000 people, it was one of those battles. It helps when both teams know each other well.

He's been consistent all along. He's just picked it up where he left it last year and he hasn't missed a beat.

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.

The turnovers and the penalties had nothing to do with the crowd, really, ... That was all us.

Part of me says maybe it's time for a change.

In a matter of three series, we had a poor planned kickoff, and they get the ball at midfield. They go deep for a big play the next play. They score a touchdown. They kickoff to us, on the return we get a holding penalty. We get the ball out on a reverse and we fumble. In a matter of a five-minute span we gave up 17 points, really 21 points.