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 BELICHICKI 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.
More Bill Belichick Quotes
-
-
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
You get the job done or you don’t.
BILL BELICHICK -
I’ll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.
BILL BELICHICK -
I’m not going to be able to talk about the people who are involved specifically in any ongoing judicial process.
BILL BELICHICK -
We’ll continue to work hard to do a better job in every area going forward. I don’t know where those little things will come from but we’ll continue to be diligent on them.
BILL BELICHICK -
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 -
However bad we can make them, I make them. Any time that players complain about the quality of the footballs, I make them worse and that stops the complaining.
BILL BELICHICK -
I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.
BILL BELICHICK -
I think a smart guy can learn. Some guys learn – it’s just like all of us – some guys can learn electronics, some of us can’t.
BILL BELICHICK -
My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited.
BILL BELICHICK -
This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
BILL BELICHICK -
We have absolutely done as much work as we can on finding out things like that and we’ll try to get all the information that we can as that would apply to any current situation, which I can’t talk about.
BILL BELICHICK