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.
BILL BELICHICKI 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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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’ll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.
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You get the job done or you don’t.
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To live in the past is to die in the present.
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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 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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This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
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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 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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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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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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I don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers…I mean Chargers.
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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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When you get wet, it usually means something good.
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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 don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
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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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Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.
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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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Each decision will be done on a case-by-case basis and we’ll make the decision we feel is best for the New England Patriots football team.
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I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.
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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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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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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 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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