Coach Bill Belichick 1/8: "Proud of the way the team competed"

Bill Belichick (0:00)

All right, thank you. Well, I'll kind of follow up a couple of things from yesterday. You know, as I said, it was obviously a very disappointing season all the way around.

Players, coaches, staff, organization, you know, everybody is not anywhere close to what our standard and expectations are. So, you know, obviously things need to be fixed. I'm proud of the way the players in the team competed, but not the results, obviously, for many of us. You know, start with me and, you know, all the way down to everybody else that was involved in it. I know we all feel the same way. So, I'm in a contract. I do what I always do, which is, you know, every day I come in, work as hard as I can to help the team in whatever way I can. So, that's what I'm going to continue to do. And, you know, today was kind of the wrap-up day for us with the players. We'll have a meeting with them and then go from there. So, as far as any, you know, decisions or direction or anything like that for next year is, you know, way too early for that.

End of the year process is, you know, I don't think we'll be fundamentally any different from a, you know, the standpoint of how it's done. The decisions, that's a whole other conversation, but how it's done, you know, meet with Robert like I always do, meet with the staff, meet with the personnel department, kind of recap the season, look at the big picture, and then look at some of the individual situations that are, you know, looming, one way or another.

So, but that's, you know, obviously a long way off from where we are right now. So we'll start, you know, at the end of the day, putting the pieces back together in terms of, you know, setting things up to go through a, you know, a good detailed analysis and to, you know, start a reconstruction, if you will.

SPEAKER_2 (2:26)

We have more hands raised, then we're going to have time for questions. I'm going to ask everyone to just ask one question. We'll move on to the next. If we get through the cycle here, we'll go back to you, but in all likelihood, we won't get all the way through this.

We're going to start, I'd ask you to turn on your cameras when you ask the question, and I'm going to start with Mike Reese, followed by Andrew Callahan.

Mike Reese (2:45)

Thank you, Stacey. Good morning, Bill. I'm curious, how do you view the Patriots' current culture as established by ownership in terms of setting a coach up to succeed?

Bill Belichick (3:00)

As I just said, I think we'll evaluate everything and take a course that we feel like collectively will put us on the best path to success. Success.

SPEAKER_2 (3:13)

Next question, Andrew Callahan, followed by Chris Ryan.

Bill Belichick (3:17)

Hey, good morning, Bill.

SPEAKER_4 (3:18)

You've mentioned you're meeting with Robert Kraft.

SPEAKER_5 (3:20)

When is that scheduled for?

Bill Belichick (3:23)

Yeah, I'll leave all that out, Andrew, because we, you know, might not be a series of meetings. I don't know.

We'll deal with that internally.

SPEAKER_2 (3:32)

We've got Chris Ryan, followed by Dan Roach.

SPEAKER_6 (3:39)

Morning, Bill.

Chris Ryan (3:40)

Obviously, two years ago, this was a playoff team and appeared to be, you know, ascending. In your view, how did the franchise, you know, get to this point, and what are the deficiencies that you're looking at initially to clean up heading into next season?

Bill Belichick (3:56)

All right, well, that's what I just talked about, Chris, and we'll, you know, take a look at everything, both, you know, the current situation, the current year, and if there's a trend or, you know, whatever we feel like we can do collectively as an organization, again, it's the same thing we've always done, just organizationally, figure out where we're going, what's our best path to get there, and, you know, look at the previous results, which obviously this year weren't very good, and, you know, chart a course to end of the future.

SPEAKER_2 (4:36)

Thank you. Dan Rhodes, followed by Josh Brogadier.

Dan Rhodes (4:38)

Good morning, Bill.

Bill Belichick (4:39)

Hey, there.

Dan Rhodes (4:41)

Just a thought on what you were saying is how much, you know, it's one day after this season, but how much do you want to be here to fix this?

And you often talk about your passion for coaching still being there. How much does that all factor into you just, you know, want to get this right here into England after the year that you guys just had?