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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.
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 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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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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When you get wet, it usually means something good.
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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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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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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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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 not really worried about the other 31 teams.
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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 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 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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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 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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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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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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I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.
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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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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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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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