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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.

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

Done Information Trying
There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
BILL BELICHICK

Foundation Shortcuts Team
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Strong Thinking Years
We never use the condition of the footballs as an excuse. We play with whatever or kick with whatever we have to use and that’s the way it is.
BILL BELICHICK

Football Play Use
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Continue Each Game Main Relationship Together
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 we all know that quarterbacks, kickers, specialists have certain preferences on footballs. They know a lot more about it than I do. They’re a lot more sensitive to it than I am.
BILL BELICHICK

Football Kickers Thinking
Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
BILL BELICHICK

Basketball Ceiling Character
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

Balls Games Steps
The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.
BILL BELICHICK

Football Versatile Wells
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Different Numbers Player
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Different Information Quality
I’m not really worried about the other 31 teams.
BILL BELICHICK

Really Team Worried
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
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
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

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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