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I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I’ve learned a lot about that.

Bill Belichick

I was out of the country for a period of time but followed everything closely through other people in our organization and we’ve made the decisions that we felt were right for the football team and we’ll continue to do that and be as diligent as we can going forward.
BILL BELICHICK

Country Football Organisation Team
I obviously understand that each team has the opportunity to prepare the balls the way they want, give them to the officials and the game officials either approve or disapprove the balls. That really was the end of it for me until I learned a little bit more about this .
BILL BELICHICK

Games Opportunity Team
I’m a football coach. I’m not a doctor … They don’t call plays, I don’t do surgeries. We have a great deal here.
BILL BELICHICK

Doctors Football Play
Not all teams use the same tests and certainly those tests are far from being 100 percent as well. It’s part of the process.
BILL BELICHICK

Process Team Tests Use
It’s the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.
BILL BELICHICK

Business Decision Football Guy Team
I’ve learned about the inflation range situation. Obviously with our footballs being inflated to the 12.5-pound range, any deflation would then take us under that specification limit.
BILL BELICHICK

Football Games Knowing
I told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that’s really about it.
BILL BELICHICK

Change Football Levels Pressure
I think that we’ll continue to try to look at ourselves in the mirror and see where we can do a better job, maybe where we can improve the process. But I think the fundamentals of the process will remain the same.
BILL BELICHICK

Jobs Mirror Thinking
I’m not going to be able to talk about the people who are involved specifically in any ongoing judicial process.
BILL BELICHICK

College Player School
We do the same thing with all our players. We take a look, as I said, at their personal family life, we look at the history of what they’ve done in high school and college.
BILL BELICHICK

College History Personal School
The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.
BILL BELICHICK

Anthem Cheer Philadelphia
I think everyone is a case-by-case basis. Whatever the circumstances are that come with any individual, they exist and you have to make a determination as to what your comfort level is with that person and the characteristics that they bring.
BILL BELICHICK

Comfort Determination Thinking
That has never been a priority for me and I want the players to deal with a harder situation in practice than they’ll ever have to deal with in the game. Maybe that’s part of our ball security philosophy.
BILL BELICHICK

Philosophy Player Practice
This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
BILL BELICHICK

Ends Long Subject
I don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers…I mean Chargers.
BILL BELICHICK

Charge Mean Sports Thinking
I’m sure that any current or past player of mine would tell you that the balls we practice with are as bad as they can be: wet, sticky, cold, slippery.
BILL BELICHICK

Football Past Player

I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I’ve learned a lot about that.

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I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I’ve learned a lot about that.

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