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.
BILL BELICHICKEach 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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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 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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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 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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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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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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This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
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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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My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited.
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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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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 not going to be able to talk about the people who are involved specifically in any ongoing judicial process.
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Well this week’s all about Seattle, so we’ve been doing our best to prepare for the Seahawks. I’m doing that, our team’s doing that and we’ll be ready to go Sunday. That’s our focus.
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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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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 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 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 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’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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I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.
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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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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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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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The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.
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I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
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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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