Brian Belichick 11/7: "A lot of factors in every play"

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

Thanks, Aaron. Brian, how are you today?

How is, um, just looking at some of the big plays allowed by the team over the last two games, I'd say 20 yards or more, what do you see in that area, Brian? And what do you want to see improve so that number comes down?

Brian Belichick (0:21)

I mean, of course, every play is, you know, pretty specific, where there's, you know, there's 11 guys on both sides of the ball that are doing something, and they can be doing it well, they can be not doing it well. And so there's a lot of factors on every play, what play they're running, what defense we're in, you know, et cetera. So a lot of things lead to why we give a big play or not. But, you know, obviously, there's consistencies of, you always want to have good communication and execution of the call and good fundamentals, including, you know, tackling coverage, et cetera.

SPEAKER_1 (1:04)

So sort of maybe a loaded question, but how much do you think those are hurting you guys?

Brian Belichick (1:13)

Big plays always hurt, you know, it's about, you know, anytime you give a big plays on defense, that's about the worst thing that can happen. Now, we've had, we've played a lot of good defense this year, so that's, you know, what I expect going forward. But yeah, I mean, if you're asking about big plays, if you're on defense and you give a big plays, that's, you know, about the worst thing that can happen.

Aaron (1:42)

All right, we'll go to Evan Lazar, followed by Nick O'Malley, then Ian Steele.

Brian Belichick (1:48)

Go ahead, Evan.

Aaron (1:50)

Hey, Brian, how you doing?

Brian Belichick (1:51)

How's it going?

Aaron (1:53)

Good, I just wanted to ask you about Marte and just, you know, how his development has gone from your perspective as a deep safety. I know that's not something he did a ton in college. So, you know, I was just curious, you know, that that has gone and I know it, you know, looks kind of like he's been involved in some big plays over the last couple of weeks, but, you know, rookie just, you know, trying to learn the spot, I assume.

Brian Belichick (2:21)

Yeah, Marte is a guy where his strength as a player is probably his versatility to play in the box and have the speed and athleticism to play, you know, other places on the field. So, you know, he's a guy, is a rookie coming from a small school who you want to get experience throughout the defense and have him understanding the defense as a whole so that as he continues to get more and more involved, he really understands what he's doing and how he can fit in.

And if he doesn't understand the big picture, then he's not able to move to different spots. So he's done a great job of that.

He's eager in the classroom to learn multiple spots in the defense and understand defense as a whole. So that's been great. So he's a guy who gets better with every rep, with the experience he gets. So yeah, I'm happy with how he's developing and excited to see his career as it unfolds.

Aaron (3:39)

Yeah, and you know, when you guys drafted him, I know you might not be completely involved in those types of decisions, but did you view him as somebody that you thought was gonna be playing in the deep part of the field, or is that something that's just kind of developed over the course of the season just because of team needs or whatever?

Brian Belichick (4:00)

Yeah, I think, like you said, I'm not involved in the exact selection of players for the draft, so the exact vision for them is up to the people who make those decisions. But I think we do a good job of, no matter what idea we have, we had for the player in the draft process, once they get here, that's the most important thing, is seeing what they can do after they can get here, what they can handle, how they fit into the defense, whether it's athletically in their role, or how they can handle things mentally.

Physically, there's different standards and things that players have to deal with in the NFL than in college. So you have to see how they match up against bigger guys or different schemes that run at this level and how they can fit in. So I think he's shown the ability to do multiple things on the field, and so we're trying to develop him in that way.