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.
BILL BELICHICKMy overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited.
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I’m not really worried about the other 31 teams.
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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 told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that’s really about it.
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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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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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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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I was out of the country for a period of time but followed everything closely through other people in our organization and we’ve made the decisions that we felt were right for the football team and we’ll continue to do that and be as diligent as we can going forward.
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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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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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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 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 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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Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
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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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