It always seems like there’s something Patriots-centric going on with the Chiefs, and this week’s series of OTA’s is no exception. First, Matt Cassel addressed the media on Tuesday and touched on a number of topics, including being a father for the first time (he says he didn’t call Tom Brady for any advice) and working with new Kansas City offensive coordinator Charlie Weis, who left the Patriots to become head coach at Notre Dame months before Cassel was drafted by New England in 2005.

What sort of advice did Brady give him when it came to working with Weis?

“Tom is a dear friend of mine and I talk to him constantly, not just about Charlie, but also about life in general,” Cassel told reporters. “He has talked a lot about Charlie, and said that Charlie has been one of the big keys to his success over his career especially when he was a young quarterback. What he has said about Charlie is that he is going to push you and push you and push you and it is just to make you better. At the end, all the yelling and sometimes getting on you is all for the betterment of you as a player.

Charlie Weis was New England's offensive coordinator from 2000 through 2004. (AP)

“Charlie pushes you each and every day and he is a guy who doesn’t let anything slip by. He is very meticulous in how he coaches. Yesterday, like we were talking about earlier, he was very tough on us because we can’t let that happen. We can’t have any lulls and that is important for us as we move forward. As a quarterback, that is what you need. You constantly need someone to push you and strive to get better even when you have a good day.”

Not every young player can work with Weis — in New England, he was known to rip off an R-rated diatribe at the drop of a hat, and it doesn’t sound like much has changed.

“You just have to take it in stride,” Cassel said. “What point is he trying to get across? What message is he trying to get to you as a player? From there, you have to take that as positive coaching and the negative part you kind of have to let go by and move forward.”

What’s easier — working with Weis or changing diapers?

“Changing diapers is difficult, but I’d have to say it’s working with Charlie,” Cassel said with a smile. “He’s a competitive son of a gun. If we come out and something doesn’t go right, he wants to win every single period and he’ll let you know that. That is something that has stuck out to me since we been work together.”

Also this week, Chiefs head coach Todd Haley talked a little bit about his experience working with Bill Belichick when the two were on Bill Parcells staff with the Jets more than 10 years ago. Haley was offensive quality control coach, and part of his duties each week was preparing the diagrams of opponent’s plays for the offensive scout team to use against the New York defense, whose coordinator was Belichick. The plays are printed on cardboard cards and shown to the practice offense before they ran each play.

“I was running cards, coaching the show team receivers and Belichick would scream at me for having a play one-yard out of line on the cards,” Haley told reporters. “At that time I had no idea. I said ‘Why is this guy being a jerk to me? I’m trying my best.’ Now I understand … now I know how important those details are. That’s how you learn all that.”