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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.

Bill Belichick

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.
BILL BELICHICK

Different Numbers Player
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Balls Games Steps
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Talking Team Thinking
Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling
BILL BELICHICK

Basketball Ceiling Character
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Different Information Quality
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
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Details Football Information
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 BELICHICK

Games Opportunity Team
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Easy Football Good Guy Player
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 BELICHICK

Doctors Football Play
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Philosophy Player Practice
I think a smart guy can learn. Some guys learn – it’s just like all of us – some guys can learn electronics, some of us can’t.
BILL BELICHICK

Mean Smart Thinking
I don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers…I mean Chargers.
BILL BELICHICK

Charge Mean Sports Thinking
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Decision Football Team
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Football Play Use
You get the job done or you don’t.
BILL BELICHICK

Action Done Jobs
I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.
BILL BELICHICK

Criminals Ongoing Player
There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
BILL BELICHICK

Foundation Shortcuts Team
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Done Information Trying
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Football Past Player
When you get wet, it usually means something good.
BILL BELICHICK

Good Mean Something Wet
I’m trying to coach the team and that’s what I want to do.
BILL BELICHICK

Team Trying Want
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Continue Each Game Main Relationship Together
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Country Football Organisation Team
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Football Kickers Thinking
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.
BILL BELICHICK

Football Games Knowing
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

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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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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