Bill's follow-up

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August 31, 2007

Patriots coach Bill Belichick held his follow-up conference call with the media (11 a.m.) and opened with the following statement:

"Just kind of a follow-up from last night, I was impressed with the way the team played. We didn't play very many players, but got a long look at them. A number of those guys played on a lot of special teams plays as well as their offensive and defensive units. There were certainly some positive things to see from a lot of players, almost throughout the entire duration of the game. Certainly, there are a lot of things we need to work on, and things that were far from perfect, but overall I thought it was a positive effort.

"Right now, we have to go through a lot of personnel decisions here in the next day and a half, and figure out exactly what we want to try to do. There are a number of factors involved. Not only just roster decisions, but practice squad spots. And some of the physical condition of our players, and so forth. That will be part of it, and of course, we want to get started on the game preparation for the Jets. That's kind of where we're at here for the short-term, and we'll let you know when we've made any of those personnel moves. There are a lot of moving parts."

Other nuggets from Belichick:

On potentially keeping 4 QBs: "We've done it before. We've kept four, we've kept two, and we've kept three. We'll do whatever we think is the best decision for the football team, and trying to take everything into consideration when we make that decision -- not just that position but the other roster spots that may be influenced or affected by that as well. But I liked what the three guys did last night. I thought they all, at various points, handled themselves well and did some good things."

On receiver Bam Childress: "Bam has showed a lot of versatility. We've also used him on defense. Last year, he played both running back and receiver spots in the Jacksonville game. I think that's one of his biggest strengths, his versatility and his intelligence, the fact he has value in more than one spot."

Belichick did not have an update on the physical condition of ILB Oscar Lua, saying he was still being evaluated.

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Bill's follow-up

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