Jim Bates Played Quotations

He has caught on surprisingly fast. The one thing he has going for him is he's played in the NFL and started a lot of ball games. So, he understands football.

Our guys at end don't get the big hits. Jason Taylor in Miami played 99% and was (expletive) off if we took him out. We'd still like to have a good rotation going even with those guys.

It's disappointing. The guys fought their tails off today and deserved better, ... I mean, our players came together and played a darn good football game. I wish we could have given our offense the ball back at the end, that was an important part of the game. That's the biggest disappointment.

They've gotten to where they are doing a good job running the football with a controlled passing game, and they've played great defense. They may open it up a little bit. We'll just have to wait and see.

Ahmad will get several opportunities in the nickel and he's on the special teams and for us the nickel back is like a starter. Over the last five years, our nickel back has played as much if not more than one of our linebackers because of the substitution.