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
BILL BELICHICKThere are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
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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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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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To live in the past is to die in the present.
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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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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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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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So 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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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’m not going to be able to talk about the people who are involved specifically in any ongoing judicial process.
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I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.
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When you get wet, it usually means something good.
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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 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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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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You get the job done or you don’t.
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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’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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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.
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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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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 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 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’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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