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    Bill Belichick

    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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    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.

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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.

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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    I could tell you that in my entire coaching career I have never talked to any player, staff member about football air pressure. That is not a subject that I have ever brought up.

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    Bill Belichick

    I don't think there's anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers...I mean Chargers.

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    Bill Belichick

    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. 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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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    I'll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.

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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    I'm not going to be able to talk about the people who are involved specifically in any ongoing judicial process. 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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    Bill Belichick

    I'm not really worried about the other 31 teams.

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    Bill Belichick

    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. 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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    Bill Belichick

    I'm trying to coach the team and that's what I want to do.

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    Bill Belichick

    In short, we accumulate all the information that we can accumulate, wherever that information comes from, and try to analyze it and make the best decision we can make for our football team on a case-by-case basis. It's the same for every single player; the process is the same.

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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    It hasn't even been competitive. That's the first thing we're going to have to do is just find a way to stay competitive because these (first two games) have been over by halftime. We saw that last year too (on Halloween). It was 21-3 (Steelers) at the end of the first quarter.

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    Bill Belichick

    I think a good quarterback or a good linebacker, a good safety, even though you have a lot of bodies moving out there, it slows down for them and they can really see it. Then there are other guys that it's a lot of guys moving and they don't see anything. It's like being at a busy intersection, just cars going everywhere. The guys that can really sort it out, they see the game at a slower pace and can really sort out and decipher all that movement, which is hard. But experience certainly helps that, yes.

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    Bill Belichick

    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. Some people can learn something else, some of us can't. I mean, we're all wired differently.

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    Bill Belichick

    I think everyone is a case-by-case basis. Whatever the circumstances are that come with any individual, they exist and you have to make a determination as to what your comfort level is with that person and the characteristics that they bring.

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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    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. They have a great running back - they have a great group of running backs - but Lynch obviously is really kind of in a class by himself. The quarterback's a problem, the receivers are a problem, they have a good offensive line.

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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    It's time for the New England Patriots to move on and that's what our job is. And as I said, our goal is the same: to have a winning football team, to be a pillar in the community. That's what our direction is; that's what we're going to do.

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    Bill Belichick

    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. Knowing that now, in the future we will certainly inflate the footballs above that low level to account for any possible change during the game.

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    Bill Belichick

    I've learned a lot about the process. I had no idea how the balls got from the officials locker room down on the field and so forth and so on and all of that. That's not something I have ever thought or concerned myself about [on] game day. I've concerned myself with preparing and coaching the team.

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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you.

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    Bill Belichick

    My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited. 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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    Bill Belichick

    My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them.

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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    Some guys are football smart and they're not smart in other ways. Other guys get 1500 on their SATs and can't get a double-team block right. No, that definitely, in my experience, sometimes it correlates, sometimes it doesn't. I don't think you just take it for granted.

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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.

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    Bill Belichick

    The linebacker has to make multiple, multiple decisions on every play. Not only what his assignment is and what the play is, but all the way along the line, different angles, how to take on blocks, how to tackle, the leverage to play with, the angle to run to and so forth, the technique. 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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    Bill Belichick

    The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.

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    Bill Belichick

    There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.

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    Bill Belichick

    There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.

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    Bill Belichick

    To me the footballs are approved by the league and game officials pregame and we play with what's out there. That's the only way that I have ever thought about that.

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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    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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    Bill Belichick

    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.