Bill Belichick 10/1: "We're a lot better team than we showed tonight"

Bill Belichick (0:00)

All right, well, we obviously didn't do much of anything well enough to be competitive tonight. So at this point, I think we're a lot better team than what we showed out there tonight, but that's what we showed and that's what it was. So I got a lot of work to do. I do a better job playing, coaching, just got to perform better, so there's really not much to say.

SPEAKER_2 (0:30)

Bill, why do you believe you're a better team than one and three that just lost by 35 minutes?

Bill Belichick (0:36)

Yeah, I say we're better when we work today. I think there was no point in leaving them in the game.

Mike (0:56)

Will he be starting next week against the Saints?

Bill Belichick (0:58)

Yeah, so there's no point in leaving them in the game, Mike.

Mike (1:01)

In that sense, do you think, consider taking Judon out on the other side? Or, you know, at that point.

Bill Belichick (1:16)

Yeah, I mean, you gotta put somebody out there.

SPEAKER_4 (1:20)

So Bill, was he benched for bad performance, or was he pulled because...

Bill Belichick (1:24)

No, I said there was no point in leaving him out there, so I took him out.

Let me know the plans to start, to start back going forward. Yeah, I didn't think there was any point in leaving him out there, so I took him out.

SPEAKER_4 (1:44)

Any early level concern you can share regarding the injuries to both Judama and Gonzalez?

Bill Belichick (1:51)

Yeah, we'll see.

SPEAKER_5 (1:56)

How much does the Gonzalez injury affect you early? I mean, obviously, it happened early in your thinnest corner, your thinnest corner to begin with, with injuries.

Bill Belichick (2:05)

Yeah, well, that's obvious.

SPEAKER_5 (2:08)

Change how you wanted to play defensively?

Bill Belichick (2:10)

Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_4 (2:15)

What do you account for for Max Port performance, even if that wasn't worked on bench, he just...

Bill Belichick (2:21)

I just said we didn't do anything well enough as a team.

So that includes everybody, coaches, players, offense, defense, special teams. So it wasn't anything that was good enough.

SPEAKER_5 (2:34)

Bill, what do you think of Max's decision making today?

Bill Belichick (2:37)

I don't think any of us played or coached well enough to be competitive today. Just everybody.

SPEAKER_4 (2:48)

How concerned are you of Max's confidence?

Bill Belichick (2:51)

Is there anything you need to talk with him about?

I don't think we need to go out and play well. All right.