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 BELICHICKWhen you get wet, it usually means something good.
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The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.
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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 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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There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
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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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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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This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
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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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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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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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Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.
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You get the job done or you don’t.
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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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So many different things happen in a split second during the course of the play, just like it is for a quarterback. The more of those things that you can do right, slow down, get the most important things, not get distracted by all the stuff that’s happening, but just really zero in on a target.
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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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Some guys, football comes really easy to them; they can see what all 22 players are doing, can see what all 11 guys are doing on their side of the ball, how it all fits together. It’s easy for them.
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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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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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When you get wet, it usually means something good.
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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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For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.
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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 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’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’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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