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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.

Bill Belichick

I told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that’s really about it.
BILL BELICHICK

Change Football Levels Pressure
I don’t Twitter, I don’t MyFace, I don’t Yearbook…
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Face Twitter Yearbook
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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Feel Feelings Good Past
That has never been a priority for me and I want the players to deal with a harder situation in practice than they’ll ever have to deal with in the game. Maybe that’s part of our ball security philosophy.
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Philosophy Player Practice
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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Decision Football Team
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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Games Opportunity Team
I think everyone is a case-by-case basis. Whatever the circumstances are that come with any individual, they exist and you have to make a determination as to what your comfort level is with that person and the characteristics that they bring.
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Comfort Determination Thinking
To live in the past is to die in the present.
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Dies Live Past Present
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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College Player School
I’ve learned about the inflation range situation. Obviously with our footballs being inflated to the 12.5-pound range, any deflation would then take us under that specification limit.
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Football Games Knowing
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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Continue Each Game Main Relationship Together
There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
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Foundation Shortcuts Team
I’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
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Team Trying Want
I don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers…I mean Chargers.
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Charge Mean Sports Thinking
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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Talking Team Thinking
Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.
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Basketball Mental Team Toughness
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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Details Football Information
I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.
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Criminals Ongoing Player
Whatever success I’ve had it is because I’ve tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach’s duty is to avoid complicating matters.
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Football Player Thinking
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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Business Decision Football Guy Team
When you get wet, it usually means something good.
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Good Mean Something Wet
This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
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Ends Long Subject
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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Done Information Trying
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Best Prepare Sunday Team
My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited.
BILL BELICHICK

Day Football Games Limited
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.
BILL BELICHICK

College History Personal School
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Strong Thinking Years

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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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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