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Highlights from Bill Belichick on The Big Show 11.02.09 at 7:30 pm ET
By Christopher Price

Patriots coach Bill Belichick joined “The Big Show” on Monday, and here are a few highlights from the Q&A. (For the entire interview, click here.)

Good bye-week for you?
Two of the three AFC East teams lost, so that’s good.

You ever see a crazy game like that Miami-Jets game yesterday?
Well, you know three returns for touchdowns. Usually when you have one that’s, statistically that’s the difference in the game. To have three in one game it’s pretty unusual also. It’s hard not to when it was you have a fumble and two kickoff returns that. That’s the NFL. It’s crazy.

On your experience with bye weeks and the first few days back…
I think for the most part that they do pretty good job. They were back in today lifting and working out. And we’ll meet with them tomorrow and get going on Miami. They’re back in the routine a little bit today.

In the past it seems like you have a more veteran teams. This year, it’s a younger team. Any words of wisdom to them before the bye week?
Well, I think everybody knows you know with stake here — we have Miami and, you know, the second half of the season. We’re in decent position, but we have tough opponents coming up. Division games, a couple of defeated teams, so … we’ll worry about all them later. Right now, it’s Miami and we know it’s a big game. We have to win in the division.

If you had your choice, is this where you would have your bye week?
Well, I think any time it comes, everybody is happy to have it. And if you have it early in the year after, you know, four weeks of training camp, five weeks of training camp, two or three games like we had last year, that was good. If you have it in the middle season that’s good. Whenever it comes, I think every team enjoys that little bit of a break. Preparation and just the mental part of it — the game plans, the adjustments, the preparation and all that … and it’s a little bit of a physical break for a couple of days.

Did you work out those two running backs today?
We worked out some backs, we worked out some tight ends. We worked out, I think about 11 or 12 guys last week because the, you know, bye week. Just getting caught up on some guys. Both workouts, physicals, just seeing where people are. There are obviously some changes from where guys were in September when they’re released by teams or maybe they just had injury situations and we just wanted to stay on top of that. So it’s a normal, bye week kind of thing.

On Chambers maybe coming to Foxboro for a “peek.”
I haven’t, I guess that was on the wire a few minutes ago…

At 2.4 million, is that feasible, or is that too much? If you had to. If you really like him, could you fit him in?
Yeah, I think we would have the cap space to do it, but you know, we have other priorities too, so …  that’s something we haven’t talked about. I don’t really know what the situation is there.

How would you evaluate where you are right now? Do you talk during the bye week with your coaches about where you need to be?
Well, we need to be better in a lot of areas, and that’s always the case so, yeah … we looked at some of things we’ve done, trying to find ways to improve it. Certainly, the red area is always a good place to start, on both sides of the ball. And third down — even though statistically, we’re not bad, we could be better there. Score more points. Give up fewer. Keeping the ball in third-down situations. Two-minute. Our special teams, always better coverage. Explosive plays in the return game. The running game, the run defense. All … you know —  everything.

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