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Bill Belichick

As part of the process, there are a lot of different ways to evaluate players. There are a number of different companies and things out there that do different things; that have different ways of evaluating and those types of tests and so forth.
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Different Numbers Player
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.
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College History Personal School
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.
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Football Games Knowing
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.
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Philosophy Player Practice
I don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers…I mean Chargers.
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Charge Mean Sports Thinking
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.
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Process Team Tests Use
So many different things happen in a split second during the course of the play, just like it is for a quarterback. The more of those things that you can do right, slow down, get the most important things, not get distracted by all the stuff that’s happening, but just really zero in on a target.
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Course Down Happen Important Quarterback Slow Thing
My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited.
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Day Football Games Limited
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.
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Business Decision Football Guy Team
I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
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Face Twitter Yearbook
I think it’s relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that’s not what we’re talking about here with Seattle.
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Talking Team Thinking
I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I’m accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.
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Coach End Football Jobs
There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
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Foundation Shortcuts Team
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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Balls Games Steps
Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
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Basketball Ceiling Character
The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.
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Football Versatile Wells

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

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