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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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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Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
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You get the job done or you don’t.
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For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.
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My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited.
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Each decision will be done on a case-by-case basis and we’ll make the decision we feel is best for the New England Patriots football team.
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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.
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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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To live in the past is to die in the present.
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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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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 .
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I don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers…I mean Chargers.
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I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
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I feel like I’ve had a strong relationship with Robert [Kraft] and his family since I was here in 1996 and I think it’s gotten stronger every year that I’ve been here with the Patriots.
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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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When you get wet, it usually means something good.
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I’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
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If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you’re going to come up short next time
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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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Whatever success I’ve had it is because I’ve tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach’s duty is to avoid complicating matters.
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I’m not going to be able to talk about the people who are involved specifically in any ongoing judicial process.
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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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All sources are not equal. When you get information, you take the information, you evaluate it, and you do the best you can with it. So, there’s a variance in the quality and the amount of the information. It’s a case-by-case basis. Each one’s different. There’s no set formulas.
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I would say that during the course of the game, I honestly never – it probably has happened on an incomplete pass or something – but I’ve never touched a game ball. It’s not something I have any familiarity with on that.
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I’m not really worried about the other 31 teams.
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Tom’s [Brady] personal preferences on his footballs are something he can take about in much better detail and information than I could possibly provide.
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