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.
BILL BELICHICKI’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
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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 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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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’m not going to be able to talk about the people who are involved specifically in any ongoing judicial process.
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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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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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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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There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
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This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
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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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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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Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.
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The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.
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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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