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The first-team offense failed to get a first down in six of nine possessions. He didn’t particularly like that.

“We didn’t do anything offensively except lose yardage and turn the ball over,” Belichick said. “It was tough to watch anything offensively.”

The first-team defense allowed 16 points through about three quarters. Credit the Bucs for drilling three field goals of at least 50 yards. And after the first series, the defense was better. But Belichick didn’t like the fact that they weren’t making any big plays.

“Didn’t make any game-changing plays,” Belichick said. “No turnovers, didn’t put them in long yardage very often. They did what they wanted to do, scored 30 points.”

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It’s not about beating somebody in practice; it’s about working with somebody and getting better. We’re not here to try to win a drill or trick Tampa on something. That’s not the point of it; the point is to work on what we want to work on and work on what they’re working on so that we can become better and when we walk off the field we’re a better team than we were when we walked on it.

Bill Belichick Press Conference Transcript – 8/23/2012

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“The coaches are tired,” Belichick said. “The players are tired, but we’re going to have a short week during the season. We’ve got a Sunday-Thursday game (week) during the season. That’s what training camp is for. It’s to suck it up. It’s to be mentally tough in whatever situations you have. You’re tired. You’re sore. You didn’t get enough sleep. You travel. Whatever it is, you block that out and you focus on what you can control, which is your performance and your effort. You go out there, and you work through it, as a team and individually. That’s the way it’s going to be during the season. “There’s going to be plenty of weeks during the season that somebody is going to be tired. Somebody is going to be sore. Some position is going to be a little short on numbers or whatever it is, and you build your toughness and your resiliency and those type of things through training camp. And it serves you well during the season. Then you look back during the season and say, ‘You know what? Maybe this isn’t really that bad. We went through a lot tougher stretch than this in camp.’ (You have) the confidence you can do it. I’m not really worried about that. These guys came to camp in good condition. We’ve had a good camp. They’ve worked hard. We’re going to put a challenge in front of them, and I expect them to meet it.”

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Bill Belichick Press Conference Transcript

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Bill Belichick Press Conference Transcript

Interesting comments here from BB on kickoff returns. One of the more surprising non-moves of the off-season was not bringing in a kick off returner.

Q: On the kickoff returns, what did the statistics show you last year in terms of the ball being moved up? Was the number of returns dramatically reduced? What are your thoughts on how that affects the value of the returner?

BB: The number of returns was down and there was a higher percentage of those [touchbacks] earlier in the year than later in the year when the weather wasn’t as warm, conditions weren’t quite as favorable, then percentage-wise there were more balls returned but still less than in the past. We didn’t return them very well in any conditions at any time and still haven’t based on the New Orleans game. That’s obviously an area that we can improve in, that we have worked hard in but based on the results still need to do a lot more work on. Important area in the game, it’s a big momentum play, it’s a way of answering the opponent’s score or start of the half, whatever the situation is there. It’s a big play in the game and an important play so we put a lot of stock in that just like we do every other play.