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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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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I’m not really worried about the other 31 teams.
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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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The more things we do together, talk about together, work together on, the closer we become and the more we rely on each other. I feel like our relationship is very close and continues to grow closer every year as we grow older together.
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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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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 trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
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Well this week’s all about Seattle, so we’ve been doing our best to prepare for the Seahawks. I’m doing that, our team’s doing that and we’ll be ready to go Sunday. That’s our focus.
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