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 .
BILL BELICHICKI’ll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.
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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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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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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 never use the condition of the footballs as an excuse. We play with whatever or kick with whatever we have to use and that’s the way it is.
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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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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 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.
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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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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’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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You get the job done or you don’t.
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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’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
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