My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited.
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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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 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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This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
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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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You get the job done or you don’t.
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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’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
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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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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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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 don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers…I mean Chargers.
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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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I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
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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 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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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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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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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 really worried about the other 31 teams.
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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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Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.
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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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The more things we do together, talk about together, work together on, the closer we become and the more we rely on each other. I feel like our relationship is very close and continues to grow closer every year as we grow older together.
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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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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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