To live in the past is to die in the present.
BILL BELICHICKI 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 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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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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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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I don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers…I mean Chargers.
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The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.
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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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Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
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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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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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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.
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I told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that’s really about it.
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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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Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.
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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.
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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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