Bill Belichick on WEEI 10/23: "Offensively it was one of our better performances"

Greg Hill (0:00)

Good morning, Bill.

SPEAKER_2 (0:01)

How are you?

Bill Belichick (0:02)

Good, good.

Greg Hill (0:03)

Nice to get a win?

Bill Belichick (0:04)

Always.

Greg Hill (0:05)

Always good?

Bill Belichick (0:06)

Always good to win.

Greg Hill (0:06)

Your 300th win, I know you said you'll talk about that later. When are you gonna talk about that?

Bill Belichick (0:13)

We're focused on Miami right now, so.

Greg Hill (0:15)

Focused on Miami.

Bill Belichick (0:16)

We'll deal with that later.

Greg Hill (0:17)

Focused on Miami. We've been having a little discussion back and forth here, as we always do, about Mac Jones.

Thought Mac had, Shime refuses to say, said he had a good game. He started off fine, then he said good. What'd you see from Mac yesterday?

Bill Belichick (0:33)

Yeah, well, I'd just say offensively, one of our better performances. Had some consistency, moved the ball, scored some points.

So those are all good things. Mac's a big part of that.

Greg Hill (0:44)

Bill, when you look at what you were able to do defensively, I mean, I thought you did guys did a great job all day long, especially when you start the game off with turnover, which defensively you guys were able to do. What's that like for the morale of the team when you're able to play like the way you guys are playing, especially starting off early like that?

Bill Belichick (1:04)

Yeah, well, turnover is big. First play is turnover, last play is turnover, so those are good things. But, you know, they're tough. I mean, obviously a great quarterback, hard to tackle and big arm and all that. So, you know, just try to limit the damage that he does.

There's going to be some, but you try to limit it. And I thought we went out there and competed well.

Courtney (1:24)

Bill, the O-line had the best game of the season so far. You look at what they made it look like. They made it look easy for Mac Jones. They made it look easy for Zeke and Ramandre. What clicked in this game for them? What do you think was the difference maker for this game?

Bill Belichick (1:37)

All right, I don't think it was easy. It's never easy.

Courtney (1:42)

Right.

Bill Belichick (1:43)

So, yeah, again, it's, you know, team offense.

There were some good things with the offensive line. You know, receivers, backs did a good job running with the ball.

Mac made some good plays, tight ends and a couple of big catches. So, you know, a lot of contributions from different areas. I don't think it was just one guy or one thing. But, you know, overall, complimentary football, offense, defense, special teams, you know, it was just, you know, a better all around game for everybody. So we need.

Greg Hill (2:09)

Twenty-three seconds left in that game. Mac came over and talked to you.

Bill Belichick (2:12)

What did you say to him?

We were just talking about the situation. No timeouts and tie score, you know, how we want to play. It was really pretty straightforward. Just turned out well.

Greg Hill (2:29)

Bill, when you look at that situation, it's interesting to see if you kind of go back on that last kind of series before Kasecki Kits is the game winner. The play before that, you run the same exact play with Pop Douglas from the slot, and then the next play looks like it's the same route where it was like an inside kind of option route slant that both of the guys ran.

Was there something that you guys saw that led you to just change up the personnel group to almost run the identical pass play, which worked out for Kasecki from maybe something you noticed the play before with Pop Douglas?

Bill Belichick (3:05)

Well, it was a different personnel group.

And on Pop's play, that ended up being a sub man protection. They blitzed, and then on the last play, we substituted and we had four players out in the round instead of three. So it was a little bit different. But the idea was to throw the ball up there high to Mike. And Mike's made that catch in practice. A lot of it was a good throw, a good catch, and a big time to hit it.

Courtney (3:34)

Kasecki gave a lot of credit to Mack after the game and said that the feedback from fans, from media, personnel, have been unfair, their criticism of Mack at the beginning of the season. Do you fall in that same category, thinking that it's been unfair treatment towards Mack, or is that just part of the territory when you're a quarterback of an NFL team?