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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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’ll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.
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When you get wet, it usually means something good.
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However bad we can make them, I make them. Any time that players complain about the quality of the footballs, I make them worse and that stops the complaining.
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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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I 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 cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.
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I’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
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I’m not really worried about the other 31 teams.
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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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You get the job done or you don’t.
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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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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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To live in the past is to die in the present.
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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 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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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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The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.
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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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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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The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.
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Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
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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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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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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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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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