Bill Belichick 10/22: "Good team victory"

Bill Belichick (0:08)

Oh, a good win for us today. You know, a good team victory.

You know, had a lot of contributions from all three units, offense, defense, special teams. There's, you know, a lot of good football. Obviously, you know, Buffalo is a very good team, quality team, very explosive. So, you know, came down to the last handful of plays, and, you know, fortunately, this week we were able to make them. So, good, you know, good day today. Still got a lot of work to do, things we can do better, but it's good to have those results, so.

SPEAKER_2 (0:43)

Bill, after Mac hit Remondre and Remondre got down to the 7, he called you last time out.

So, you're first in goal at the 7, and Mac hit Pop Jones, Pop at the one-yard line. He did not get out of bounds, but you had the pass interference call, which stopped the clock. In retrospect, the way things went, how did that pass interference call just change the complexion at the end of the game?

Bill Belichick (1:07)

Yeah, well, I mean, it is what it is.

Kind of the same thing happened at the other end, you know, the penalties. I mean, look, there were flags, there were no flags. They picked them up, they threw them late.

You know, I don't know. But, yeah, there's defensive penalties. It stops clock. That's what it is. So, you know, when you're on defense, in those situations, penalties are never a good thing. And, you know, we had them, they had them. Helps the offense.

SPEAKER_3 (1:33)

Hi, Bill.

SPEAKER_4 (1:34)

What did you see from Mac Jones today, especially on that last two-minute drive?

Bill Belichick (1:37)

Well, I mean, it's, you know, kind of a good offensive drive. You know, a good, you know, a good run there by Ramandre. You know, got up a lot of, you know, covered a lot of field, but, you know, made a good check on the blitz, got it to the weak side to Parker, you know, hit pop down there, you know, good throw for the touchdown. So, you know, a lot of good football pass protection. I mean, they were rushing, they were blitzing.

So, we picked them up, we threw what we caught up, and it was good execution.

SPEAKER_5 (2:07)

Coach, you got players making plays on both sides of the ball, guys stepping up big time, but Peppers, he seems to come through for you week in and week out. How big is Jabril?

Bill Belichick (2:17)

Yeah, I've had a good year, you know, very explosive player, hard tackler, a big play in the interception. That was a nice, you know, kind of, we got hit on that play against him last year, and, you know, worked on it in practice, and, you know, he played it well, did a nice job, go up high, point the ball.

We worked a lot on, you know, Alan throwing the ball down the field. He had that one in the end zone, seemed like he threw it about 70 yards. I don't know how far it was, but it was, JC broke it up down there, so it was kind of 50-50, deep balls. You know, our toughies, I mean, he's got a big arm, and, you know, he got good receivers, so. But, yeah, Peps, you know, Peps ain't good for us, and, you know, he's helped us in the kicking game as well.

And he mentioned offense and defense, but I thought we had, you know, I thought Chad, you know, it was a big kick there, a 49-yarder, and upon return, you know, gave us good field position there in the first quarter, you know, covered kicks, obviously, a lot better than we did the last time we played him, so. And punts, you know, thought, you know, Bryce had a, you know, big field position swing there, so. You know, all the units contributed, and it's good to have that.

SPEAKER_6 (3:21)

Thanks. Bill, first few games here at home this year, you guys started slowly, you were playing from behind, turnovers, that sort of thing. Today, you had the lead, 10-0. And you obviously had the turnover. What was the difference for your team here today?

Bill Belichick (3:34)

Yeah, well, I mean, we played well today, so there's still room for improvement, but yeah. We'll see how it goes next time we play, I don't know.

SPEAKER_4 (3:44)

Bill, what factor in to the decision to put Mike Nwanyu at right tackle today, and is the plan to keep him there going forward?

Bill Belichick (3:52)

Yeah, we'll see. I don't talk to Mike about it, I don't know, so, yeah.