Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
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.
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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 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.
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I’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
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I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.
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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’m not really worried about the other 31 teams.
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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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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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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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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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There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
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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’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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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.
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The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.
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