I’m not sure we learned anything that we didn’t already know,” Belichick told hosts Glenn Ordway and Michael Holley of the Big Show, who were alongside Steve DeOssie. “I think the situation was similar to what we saw at Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh was a game that we didn’t do much of anything right in the first quarter, we were down 10-0, and they had the ball and moved it. We hung in there and fought right until the last play, and had a chance with an onside kick, even after the safety. It was still a chance. Certainly the odds were against us at that point, but we had a chance in a one-score game. We hung in there in a tough environment. "So I’m not surprised that our players can hang in there on the road in a tough environment. The same thing happened in Philly. We went down on them early and hung in there and were able to win convincingly. I think the toughness of the team has come through at different points during the season. "I’d say the Pittsburgh game, that’s really the one where I saw it clearly.
One of the underrated things about this defense, as bad as they are, is how they never have given up once this year. Some people might even call them “scrappy”. It’s not always pretty, in fact it’s usually pretty ugly, but they have a fight in them that I know will take them down to the final second of their season whenever that might be.
