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.
BILL BELICHICKI 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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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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You get the job done or you don’t.
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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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The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.
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The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.
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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’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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Tom’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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This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
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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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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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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 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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Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
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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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