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
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A lot of things have to happen as far as the injuries. We have to get those guys back.
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It's just one of those things he's got to be on top of. We've got to do a good job of coaching him where he can get back on the field. He's good enough to play in this league, there's no doubt.
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He's a legitimate starter in our eyes. Thus far, he's done everything we've asked him to.
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He's improving. He's still learning a position. He's been moved around a lot.
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Teams can climb back from the bottom to the top in a year, two years. We can be back there in a hurry. I'm not saying one year or two years, but it won't take long.
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It's disappointing. Guys fought their tails off and deserved better. That's a good offense coming in here, a 2-0 team that had a lot of success, and we matched them. The biggest disappointment was the last couple of series.
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One of the hidden benefits is you get good word of mouth back on campus, ... That's invaluable because you can't get that with a brochure. I've had a number of people say, 'I'd never heard of CUNA, but my friend had an internship there, and I want to know more.'
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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.
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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.
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It's huge. But really, there's ways we disguise it that there's eight so you can't recognize it. But we do a lot of it with seven in the box.
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There's going to be hard, hard decisions for our coaches and Ted and his staff.
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He was here all winter, all spring, had a tremendous amount of consistency and made a lot of plays on the ball throughout the offseason. His misfortune was he missed almost all preseason.
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It's one of those things. Basically you stay on coverage, but you can't fault him (for leaving the receiver) when it looks like he (Griese) is wide open to the end zone.
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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.