I’ll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.
BILL BELICHICKSo 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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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 don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers…I mean Chargers.
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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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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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My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited.
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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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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 trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
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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 not going to be able to talk about the people who are involved specifically in any ongoing judicial process.
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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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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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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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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’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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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 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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When you get wet, it usually means something good.
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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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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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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 cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.
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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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Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.
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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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