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 BELICHICKTom’s [Brady] personal preferences on his footballs are something he can take about in much better detail and information than I could possibly provide.
More Bill Belichick Quotes
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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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The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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To live in the past is to die in the present.
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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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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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My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited.
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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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Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
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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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You get the job done or you don’t.
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