{"id":317,"date":"2005-12-22T07:07:51","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T12:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2005-12-22T07:07:51","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T12:07:51","slug":"new-england-head-coach-bill-belichick-transcript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2005\/12\/22\/new-england-head-coach-bill-belichick-transcript\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Head Coach Bill Belichick Transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of New York Jets<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Brooks Bollinger\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong>
\nI think he played very well against MIA last week. I think he made passes to a lot of different receivers. I thought he really made some good plays in the opening game too as far as scrambling for first downs. I think he showed a lot of poise in there, and I think that overall, this team has improved quite a bit offensively since we seen them, which was a very short time ago. They run the ball well, they ran it well against OAK, they had over 180 yards rushing and I think Brooks did a very good job managing the team, moving the ball, both throwing it and getting some keepers down on scrambles. I believe they have confidence in his running ability when they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re designing plays like QB draws, shovel passes and those types of plays. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mind your QB running. I think that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shown he can play, and play well.<\/p>\n

On the Patriots making a Super Bowl run\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong>
\nRight now we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just trying to get ready for the Jets. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know about a run anywhere. I hope we can run the ball. That would be a change if we could. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just trying to get ready for the Jets. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Monday night game. Herm always does a great job in getting his team ready to go. They play with a lot of emotion, a high energy level; they certainly have the last couple weeks. I think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made some improvement over the last couple weeks in our play, but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re still lacking consistency in some areas. Hopefully, we can do a better job of that. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re looking forward to playing the Jets down there at home where they usually play well. Herm does a great job of getting the team ready to go. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be at their best Monday night.<\/p>\n

On keeping the game plan normal going into the playoffs\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong>
\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to improve our football team. I think we need to be playing our best football. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to get to. I think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made some improvement in the last couple weeks in different areas, but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still a long way to go. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to keep working on.<\/p>\n

On Tom Brady\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shoulder\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong>
\nHe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably be probable this week. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slightly less than 100 percent. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just following the rules the League lays out for us on injury reporting.<\/p>\n

On playoff games being significantly different from regular-season games\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong>
\nI think there is an intensity level that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little higher just because of what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at stake at the game. You know, single illumination, one mistake, one loss and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it, you go home. I think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a jump in the intensity level in a game from preseason to regular season and I think there is a jump when the post-season starts. Not to lessen the quality of the games in those other times, but just because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s potentially the last one. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just a one-game season at that point, there are no second chances.<\/p>\n

On specific elements in a playoff game that you may not need in a regular-season game\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong>
\nI don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. I think the only thing I would say is at the end of a playoff game, I think you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to have the feeling that you lost because you were doing something that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not very good at. In other words, if they beat you because you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gone with your best stuff and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done the things you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been successful with all year, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one thing. If you try to do something you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not very good at and that ends up costly and you end up not winning, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d probably look back and say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I wonder if we just went with what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been successful with all year if that would\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been good enough?\u00e2\u20ac? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a tough one to walk away from. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean that you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to do anything different or change up anything, but I think you want to give your players and your team a chance to be successful doing what, at least a certain percentage of what has gotten you to that point.<\/p>\n

On their injuries\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong>
\nWell, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to have all your players out there every week. Realistically, hardly anybody in the League is in that situation. We have confidence in all 53 players, the ones we take to the game. We feel we can win with them. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why they are there. They need to step up and perform their role and do their job whatever that happens to be. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the way we look at it and we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t try to concern ourselves too much with things we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t control. If a player is out, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s out. Somebody else has to step in and perform at that level.<\/p>\n

On Ellis Hobbs\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong>
\nI think Ellis has improved a lot during the season. He came in and has a good level of talent, but some of the coverages we do are probably a little different than the way he was used to doing them. But he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worked hard; he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been very competitive and I think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gotten better each week. He has a good level of confidence and his confidence level has probably been growing as he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been able to have success on the field. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard working kid that wants to do better. He puts a lot into it and I respect his approach to the game. I think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an improving young player.<\/p>\n

On the NE defense showing improvement\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong>
\nTo be honest with you, I think defensively we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made some improvements at about the bye week. It just didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always show up necessarily in the end result. Instead of having three or four things wrong on a play, sometimes it was only one or two. Sometimes those things show up and sometimes they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. The play just goes somewhere else and it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t become that noticeable. When you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing a lot of things wrong on every play, then pretty much whatever they run you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re out of position. I think, overall our consistency level has improved over the last few weeks and hopefully we can continue to keep it in that direction. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it was one game, or one play, or anything that specific. I just think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a lot of little things adding up to the bigger result of being more competitive than a couple months ago. I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a matter of playing better and coaching better, for that matter. I think there was some bad coaching going on there as well, starting with me. I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a combination of playing better and doing a better job of coaching and giving the players a chance to play better. Those things are at an improvement from what they were.<\/p>\n

On NE having interest in Ben Graham\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong>
\nI think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing a great job. He pinned us on the one-yardline twice and did the same thing to OAK a couple weeks ago. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got a good leg and is very good at those plus-50 punts. He gets it up in the air and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost like a golfer hitting the ball to the green. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got control over the ball once it hits the ground which to me is a hard thing to do. The way it bounces, usually it kicks forward, but his balls seem to land softly or sometimes even almost back-up a little bit kind of like a golf shot would when it hits the green. His control is amazing because if that ball comes down outside the 10 yardline, the returner is going to fair catch it and you might get it on your 10, 12, 14 or wherever it is but if it comes down inside the 10, on in some cases inside the five, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really nothing the returner can do. He can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t catch the ball at that point, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a good play, and if you let it go and it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 roll into the end zone, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got you where they want you. The Jets have done a great job of that all year and in our game, they killed us it. They got OAK too. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good weapon and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s well executed as everything that Mike (Westhoff) does in the kicking game are. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good coach and it seems like they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re always one of the best special teams units that we face.<\/p>\n

On this Monday night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s game being historic because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the last one on ABC\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong>
\nWell, I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t thought of it from that perspective, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a very interesting question that you pose. In 1970 I was still in high school, and the early Monday night games in college and that was a big thing because we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d do anything not to study in college. We needed a good excuse and Monday Night Football was that. (Howard) Cosell and (Don) Meredith and the caller they had in the game were a little more unique than they had in the more standard weekend broadcasts. It seemed like the match-ups were always good, exciting match-ups, or at least they marketed it such that it was not only competitive, but entertaining as well. That was my memory of it. To think now that chapter of the book is closing and that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a part of that\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s certainly a big chapter of the growth of the National Football League. That certainly puts it into perspective of where the games are. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m fortunate and honored to be a part of this game in the National Football League with the NE Patriots. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an honor and a privilege for me to coach this team and to be a part of the franchise that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the greatest League in professional sports and to work for an owner like Robert Kraft, who has given me the opportunity to do that. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m very thankful for the situation that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in and to have an opportunity to even participate in a game like this. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s certainly been an important step in the history of football, the popularity of the sport, and what it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s received during that time frame. Certainly, Monday Night Football on ABC has had an impact on that. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s humbling to be one game in, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how many games that would be, that are a lot of games. I guess it is an honor to be that last one in that legacy of broadcasting.<\/p>\n

On if there is a certain element to have to be successful in the playoffs\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong>
\nI think that I could give you the stats of it, but I think that turnovers are right at the top of playoff football importance. For the most part, the teams that are in the playoffs are pretty evenly matched and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only going to take a little bit to decide those games so, ball possession and field position gained when a teams loses the ball on turnovers, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be huge. There are a lot of plays that aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t listed as turnovers, so they kind of fall in that same category. Even though they may not show up in the stat sheet, like a missed FG. If you miss a 40-yard FG, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the same as fumbling the ball. They have the ball, you have no points and they have that field position from what it would\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been if he made the FG. Those kinds of plays just get magnified I think, just because of the closeness in the competitive levels of the teams and what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at stake. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one play, just one thing that can determine the outcome of the game and the outcome of your season.<\/p>\n

On Tedy Bruschi\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong>
\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great to have Tedy out there. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good player. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a very enthusiastic and energetic player. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great leader. He brings a lot of positives to the team and a lot of positives to the field when he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s out there, whether it is on defense or the kicking team where he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s played a number of plays for us. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great to have him back. I think that his game and play has improved steadily through the course of the season since he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s started playing in the seventh game. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just gotten better each week. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always been good, but I think missing all that time in training camp and the first games of the season, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just not as sharp or see things as quickly. It might just be a split second but I think with each game his timing, reactions and reactive quickness is improving and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s continuing to play better and better. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great for our football team and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m obviously happy for him that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s able to achieve and play at that level. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worked hard and I think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deserved the success that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s having.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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