Jim Fassel
Jim Fassel
James Edward "Jim" Fasselis the former head coach of the NFL's New York Giants. He has also served as offensive coordinator of several other NFL teams, and as the head coach, general manager, and president of the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth31 August 1949
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Deep inside, I know we can fix this thing and get going, ... Now, the clock is running.
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I think we have higher expectations and desires than a lot of people think, or that we're capable of. Our guys weren't going to stop unless they were going to win.
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I thought Jesse did all right, considering some things. We had some routes that weren't where they were supposed to be and protection problems.
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Kerry is evolving into an elite quarterback in this league. One of the top guys who is going to play this game. And as he goes on, there's no limit to him right now. He's come so far and handled himself so well. There's no limit. He's got tremendous talent.
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I would say that whatever our numbers are, they're probably pretty much league-wide and probably pretty much society-wide. I don't think our team is any different from any other team or society as a whole. I don't think those numbers are out of whack. The hard thing is we hold these players to different standards. That's going to be the difficult part, figuring out how we are going to bridge that gap if these guys can't be within these normal societal numbers.
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When we walk out of the meeting, and it's all drawn up on the piece of paper, you don't run routes as a stick man. You run routes with a feel. You know when to sit. You know when to slide. You know when to change directions. That stuff.
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We didn't play real well all season and realistically, we should have beaten them twice. They didn't hammer us. We should have beaten them twice. I think Seattle's a pretty hard-nosed, athletic group of guys that will match up pretty well.
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When you start looking at the coaching standpoint with OT, you're throwing a lot of what ifs in there,
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We're not going to panic here, ... You keep trying, you just have to keep adjusting little things until we can get 'em going. There's no magic fix. I try little different things, but it still comes down to we have to go out and play and execute.
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He has worked hard. He wants to be good. His fundamentals are so much better. He is smooth, he is crisp, and he just looks comfortable out there now.
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I couldn't, ... It was the hole in our lives.
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We changed up his fundamentals last season and it really kicked in towards the end of the season,
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There have been a lot of questions: 'Can Kerry step forward and carry this team?'
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The most incredible thing, ... is here I sit, and I've got four granddaughters now. Unbelievable! So much about it is really overwhelming. Imagine you've tried to keep an important secret over the years. What would be the worst thing? That it'd end up on the front page of the New York Times . But then it did, and what a wonderful story it is -- for everyone.