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.
BILL BELICHICKI’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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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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My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited.
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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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The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.
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The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.
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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 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.
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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’ll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.
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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 cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.
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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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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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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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For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.
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