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.
BILL BELICHICKAll 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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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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The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.
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I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.
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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 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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For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.
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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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I’ll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.
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The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.
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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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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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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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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 really worried about the other 31 teams.
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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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