Jim Mora Quotes (158 Quotes)

I have respect for some of the young guys trying to make this team, but I think our players are anxious to get going on the season. It's been a long preseason.

Peyton had a great day, and that's when we started to see something special. There were still some down times, but frankly he got through it better than I thought he would. The first off-season is crucial. Quarterbacks get a lot of work in between the first and second year. That's when you really ought to start seeing something, by the second year.

In three of our four games, we have faced defences that have done things that are a little bit out of the norm. Maybe a little bit more exotic then you would expect, and that was Philadelphia and Buffalo and yesterday against Minnesota. They are not your typical line-up-in-four, get-in-the-shade and play defence.

I still think about things like lining up for the national anthem and having to stand on the 50-yard line like head coaches do,

It was hard to watch people attack my dad, especially because I knew how hard he worked and how many great things he had done there, with and without support from the organization, with and without a lot of talent.

I'm proud of the way the young guys fought, especially those hanging on the edge. I was very impressed with the way we ran the ball.

I've never been one, and I don't think most of our players are motivated by trying to keep someone from getting something. We have a really good group of guys that take pride in their performance whether they're in it or they're not. This is a division game against a team that beat us pretty badly earlier in the year and there's always some motivation there. If we weren't a team that had the type of high character individuals on it that I think we do, then there would be cause for concern. I think we'll give it our best shot.

When it got right down to it, he still was able to make plays running. He did make some key plays with his arm, buying time to throw it, hanging in the pocket against an outstanding blitz package and making some key third-down conversions.

I have decided not to extend Mike Johnson's contract. Mike has worked hard as our quarterbacks coach for the last two seasons and we wish him the very best in the future.

We're off a little. We're off a hair. When you're off a hair in this league it can look very bad. Very bad.

Whether he starts or not, I don't know if the impact he has on our team will change. I think it's going to be just as dramatic, whether he's a starter or not. He's just that type of player. He rallies guys. He is a pro. He's a man. Demorrio Williams played well, too. Ike played a lot at inside linebacker and that's where he practiced today. Ike is very versatile. He can play any of those three positions.

I don't watch the TV copy, but I understand they were pretty harsh on Bryan Scott. I wouldn't be as hard on Bryan Scott as they were. Bryan played better yesterday than he has, than he did the week before. I saw some improvement there.

I have great control of my emotions.

The eight carries a game, that doesn't make me nervous because we're asking him to do it on four to five of them. He's not just dropping back and scrambling. Those are by design.

Roddy practiced today and it looks like he'll be ready go.

In fairness to him, once we make the decision, let's go. Let's give the guy a chance to go somewhere else and have success. We're not spiteful, we're not vengeful and we're not out to see him fail. I don't think anyone in this organization feels that way. We hope he lands a job.

I hate to say more comfortable because that makes it sound like you're taking it easy, or more relaxed, but there's more familiarity. We know each other. They know what I expect of them on the practice field, in games, in the community and in the meeting rooms. I understand how they're going to respond in certain situations.

Everything's so real now. Every game has significance. Every practice matters. You can't waste a rep. You don't get it back now. There's only so many reps you get during a regular-season week. I think the sense of urgency heightens.

He's out for the year, unfortunately, more for him than anybody, ... Christian will come in and do a good job for us, so we've just got to move on. That's how you do it in this business.

One of my obligations to the players is to make sure I'm looking out for their health.

In the cover two, cornerbacks squat at seven or eight yards, but the rules now say you have to hit them within five yards, ... You just have to be more conscious of when you hit them. You always teach, 'Hit them at five yards and carry them for a while. Find out how far they're going to let you carry them. Let them call it, and then we'll worry about it, you know what I mean' You have to find out what the parameters are going to be. This year, early at least, the parameters are going to be five yards. They're going to strictly enforce it.

If we sit back and take a look at it, there will be some good things for the future. Maybe not good for this year, but for the future.

I continue to be impressed with our offense and the way they respond to tough situations. (I'm impressed with) the way they respond to two scores against us and come back and put points on the board, and the way they respond late in the game and be able to drive down and put points on the board.

You can make a case either way if you want to. He's not even close to his potential, nor is he done learning.

It doesn't matter to us. It's the first game we play. It doesn't matter if we're playing the Eagles or Flowery Branch High School. OK, that might be a little stretch. To people outside the locker room, there's a real significance to it. We don't want to let that become a part of our thought process.

He knew he screwed up. I said, 'What happens there, DeAngelo, besides the fact that it's probably going to cost you 25,000, is you hurt your team, and this team needs you.' He said, 'You know what, I know, and it'll never happen again.' But he's a competitive sucker.

We're extremely happy with Matt. He's just a smart player, understands our system. The players have complete confidence in him. We feel like we can win if he's playing for us.

And what can he teach cornerbacks who are used to grabbing the receiver's jersey at the seven or eight-yard mark You've got to teach them to have a short memory, ... So they can get to the next down.

Mike did more today than he did at any time last week, ... We're hopeful that by the end of the week we'll be able to upgrade him and he can play this week, but we'll see.

We need him catching the ball and hitting it up in there. And with Roddy being out, he'll get more chances. We haven't put our plan together ... but I wouldn't be surprised if takes them all.

It's really tough. We're going to miss him a lot because he was going to be a big factor on special teams.

We're trying to be smart. We're trying to do the right things in terms of using some of our guys. Some ... of the key guys are getting up there in age. So that we get them through the season healthy, we're trying to resist that temptation of just throwing them in there. That's hard to do.

And he said, 'I don't want to hear it. I don't care if I never throw the ball again as long as we win.'

Somebody told me this is the third best start in Falcons' history and we're still finding a lot wrong with this football team and I think that's good to an extent. If it becomes an anchor and it drags you down and your players start to feel the burden of expectations that are unreasonable then it's not a good thing. I don't think we're at that point. I think we're at a good spot. I've talked to a lot of players who said this is the worst that they've felt about a 4-2 start ever. Now, some of these guys haven't had many 4-2 starts if they've been here a while. We just have to keep it in perspective.

Had he not come up to my office, then we might not be talking about this now. We might be talking about this tomorrow or next week, but I have too much respect for Peerless, or any other player, to lie to them when you're dealing with their livelihood.

I think we ran into a Carolina team that was determined today. I don't think we played well at all, but I don't think that there was a guy out there that quit.

Not a lot went right for us, as everyone who stayed around to witness that game saw.

You become consistent when you stay the course. You remain consistent with your coaching staff. ... You stay with the same schemes, so the players get repetition doing it over and over again.

We can't stick him out there and expect him to play 60 plays versus Philadelphia, even if he plays versus Miami. Even if he was 100 percent healthy, had never been hurt, had never had surgery, that's a lot of snaps for a 32-year-old defensive end. It's a lot of snaps for any defensive end. You try to roll those guys through. I think he'll be ready to go. It certainly appears that way right now.

When are we going to start talking about when Peyton Manning is going to start doing what Mike Vick does Let's flip it. The guy wins games, and that's the role of a quarterback, to win games. He doesn't need to do anything. I think it's ridiculous that people keep asking me that question. I don't know why people are so narrow-minded that they can't understand why the guy is a great player.

He looked fine. I watched him move, and that's part of my evaluation, but I also watched the expressions on his face and his demeanor. Mike has a look about him when he's confident and calm and feels good about where he is physically. I see that look in his face.

I saw that, ... and I just thought how impressive it was. It was like, 'There's more to do.'

For a guy that came in and practiced Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and really didn't take any snaps at corner, he did an excellent job. He possesses some of the qualities that Kevin (Mathis) has - a toughness, an instinct playing inside, tackling ability, and a feel for the game. Our personnel department did a great job of bring him in for us.

The one thing we never want to do with Mike Vick is discourage him from being Mike Vick, which is one of the greatest athletes in all of sports,

I think the way we handled this win, ... is almost as important as the victory itself. This is a mature team, and they know what's ahead. I think they understand that what we have to do now is go out and validate this victory.

It probably will be a game-day decision.

I'm a passionate guy. I'm passionate about winning, about my family, my friends, the Atlanta Falcons and about us being the best. Sometimes passion spills over into emotion, and it wasn't as big an incident as it has been portrayed to be. I have apologize

I did get informed that they're going to be fined. The league has an image to protect. I thought the officials did a really good job of defusing what could have been a pretty intense situation. Unfortunately, two good players did not get to play an important game.

He recognizes that T.O. is a great competitor and a great player, and DeAngelo likes that challenge. Last year he got the opportunity to match up against Torry Holt in the playoff game, and Torry got him a couple of times, and he got Torry a couple of times. But he loved the matchup, and that's one of the neat things about DeAngelo. He's a great competitor, and he loves being challenged. He gets bored if he's not challenged.

My family and I love it here. Our business is a little bit nomadic at times. We'd like to stay here as long as we can. I appreciate the confidence they have shown in me.