Bill Belichick Press Conference 11/4

PRESS CONFERENCE
November 4, 2022

BB: Alright, good morning. Happy Friday. How’s business?

BB: Good. Kicking, great.

Q: Mac’s [Jones] ability to run has kept some plays alive and moved the chains. How much has that been, I don’t want to say a revelation, but is that something that has grown since he’s been here or is it something that’s always there?

BB: Well, I think he’s got a pretty good feel for that. A lot of it is just really feel and decision. Some of its athletic ability too, but a lot of it is just seeing it through the right time. Tom [Brady] did a good job of that. He didn’t run very often, but when he did, like last year against us, he got us on that third-and-four or whatever it was. [Peyton] Manning same thing, didn’t run very often, but he catches you at the right time, those guys can hurt you. The guys that are really good runners, you know about, and the guys that aren’t, it’s just decisions and recognition of the situation.

Q: Is he sort of in the middle of those categories still? I feel like he runs fairly well, he was sub-five in the 40.

BB: Well yeah, I mean again there is varying degrees of all that, size, speed, athleticism, quickness, running skill. Lot of shades of grey in there, I don’t know.

Q: In watching RPOs, are there elements of the wishbone there, thinking pre and post snap decision making, quarterback right at the line of scrimmage with the ball in his hands?

BB: In terms of three options that’s exactly what it is. Sometimes it’s two, sometimes it’s three, right? So, in the wishbone you had the fullback, the quarterback, the pitch. Now you have the dive, the quarterback and instead of the pitch, it’s some type of pass pattern to a guy in the flat or a bubble screen, or that type of thing. Sometimes it’s run or throw but then there are times when it’s run, quarterback reads the end as part of the run and then either he runs or he throws. So, there is a dual element to the RPOs and sometimes there’s really…