Jim Haslett Last Quotations

Last year was a hard year on myself and all the coaches, and really the whole city. So I decided that if I didn't get a job, or the right job, that I would probably sit out a year and see if I could get back in the next year.

But, again, everything that has gone on with the city and this football team the last two weeks, that's probably the least of our concerns.

We lost one game and this team's overcome a lot in the last month, so that one game is nothing compared to what we've had to overcome,

He twisted it on the last play of practice. I think he's going to be OK.

He's got great ball skills, and he has a lot of intangibles. The question on him is tackling, but he had three tackles last week. He did a pretty good job in that area.

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.

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 that's the last thing on anybody's mind right now. If somebody would say that, obviously they don't have a good handle on what they're talking about. I don't think that's true by any means whatsoever. . . . I think that's something that would have to be determined when the season is over. Right now, we've got four months of football and, hopefully, we can get through those and get in the playoffs and then figure out where we're going to live. Hopefully, it's back where we came from.

I think that's the last thing on anybody's mind right now. That's something that would have to be determined when the season is over. Right now, we've got four months of football, and hopefully we can get through those and get in the playoffs and then figure out where we're going to live. Hopefully, it's back where we came from.

I was proud of the team in the way they came back from last week, and we played well in a lot of areas.

That's been part of our problem on defense the last couple years that we've had so many changes in personnel that no one has ever gotten comfortable with anybody,

We put in new guys last year. We tried to simplify some things. Hopefully this defense can pick up where it ended last year.

You are allowed to pull as long as you are going forward. They allowed Atlanta to do it last week.

We tried that last year -- we won four in a row. I don't know if anything can carry over because of free agency, and maybe a hurricane hitting you.

You look at the people and what they've gone through the last two weeks, ... and the last thing you can do is feel sorry for us.

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.

We were fired up all week. You could feel it. You felt it on the bus. You could feel it last night. Hopefully, we can keep that sense or urgency all year.

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.

We wanted to sign him last week, but we couldn't find a roster spot. He's a guy that's extremely fast, very smart. He'll know Atlanta (this week's opponent) a little bit, but we brought him in to play special teams and learn the safety spot.

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.

He's started to pick it up. With the way he played last week, he feels like he's good to go with the offense.

You don't have to feel sorry for this team. The players are going to do the thing they want to do, and that's play football. You look at the people back on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans and what they've gone through the last two weeks and how they're living. Don't feel sorry for us. We're fine.

It really was a carryover to this week, they started off that way in practices and it carried over in the game, ... Obviously the Hurricane hitting the city played into it. But really the way we practiced, started last year.

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's a bad call because we took exactly the same play that Atlanta ran last week to try to block the game-winning field goal against New England, and we tried to run it, and they didn't call it last week against Atlanta.

I don't think they're true, ... I think that's the last thing on anybody's mind right now.

I do think that us playing here for the first time will be the first normal week where we've had a routine, unlike last week and the week before. Finally we can settle in.

The last three out of four games, we threw the ball way too many times, ... You're going to get holding calls when you throw it. When you throw it too much, bad things happen.