We’ll continue to work hard to do a better job in every area going forward. I don’t know where those little things will come from but we’ll continue to be diligent on them.
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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 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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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 everyone is a case-by-case basis. Whatever the circumstances are that come with any individual, they exist and you have to make a determination as to what your comfort level is with that person and the characteristics that they bring.
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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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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 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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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 trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
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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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There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
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This is the end of this subject for me for a long 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 don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
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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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I’ll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.
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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.
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I’m sure that any current or past player of mine would tell you that the balls we practice with are as bad as they can be: wet, sticky, cold, slippery.
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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 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.
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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’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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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.
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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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The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.
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