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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.

Bill Belichick

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Bill Belichick
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 16
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William Stephen Belichick
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I'm trying to coach the team and that's what I want to do.
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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'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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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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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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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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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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You get the job done or you don't.
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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 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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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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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 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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