Jim Bates
Jim Bates
Football coach who served as the interim head coach of the NFL's Miami Dolphins in 2014 after a promotion from defensive coordinator.
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth31 May 1946
five game gotten scheme
I think there's a lot of things that get into it. He's been in the scheme for five weeks. He's gotten a lot more reps through the game experience.
game key randy
A big key to this game is eliminating the big play, and Randy can make the big play.
best counting defense definitely far game high influence level playing plays push
We're counting on him to do it, ... That was his best game for us by far this season. We need more of that, because it definitely has an influence on how we play defense when he's playing at a high level and making plays in the backfield and getting some push up the middle.
best counting defense definitely far game high influence level playing plays push
We're counting on him to do it. That was his best game for us by far this season. We need more of that, because it definitely has an influence on how we play defense when he's playing at a high level and making plays in the backfield and getting some push up the middle.
best far game
That was by far his best game this season,
good rotation
We've got some good flexibility there with the rotation we've been in,
defensive fear negative plays
You can get more negative plays just by penetrating gaps. You can also be gashed for more big runs. That's the fear we have as a defensive staff.
blinders bottom bounce bring closer dropped dwell early learn together
You just bounce back. It's part of life; it's part of football. You learn and you go forward. You can't dwell on the past; you can't dwell on what's happened. You put the blinders on, bring it closer together and get back to work. It's too early (to think the bottom has dropped out). If we had that attitude, we'd go 0-16.
chance head list opportunity people pick whom worked
When you get that opportunity to be a head coach, you have a list of people you've worked with. I wanted to give him the chance to pick those people with whom he had relationships. I didn't want to get in his way.
great joey opportunity players ready stamp until
Well, when you have as many young players as we have, until they put a stamp on the position, it can change. And so nothing's permanent, especially with the young players. But Joey now has the opportunity, he's ready for the opportunity and he had a great offseason.
sit soak sometime talk tape visit
We (coaches) will sit around and talk it over, and let the tape soak in and see where we are. We'll visit sometime (today) and be set for Wednesday.
decision plays total
We'll make that decision (today). But we'll go on a lot of plays and the total preseason, not just tonight.
definitely higher situations third
We definitely have to improve. Third down-and-long situations have been the one that's been most disappointing. We should be off at a much higher percentage.
evaluate
We're going to evaluate every position. We're going to evaluate, see what happened. We'll evaluate as we do after every week.