New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick gave his best Allen Iverson impression Monday when he touched on a rumors of a poor practice week might have led up to a poor performance by the Flying Elvii Sunday."I don’t know, you would have to ask them that. I think practice is practice. Practice never goes perfectly. That’s what practice is for: you work on new things, you work on things that the team you’re playing is doing and you correct those and sometimes you get a chance to run those plays again in practice but usually you really don’t. We just don’t have that many plays by the time you get in all the situation ways – third down, red area, goal-line, short yardage, all the special teams things, second-and-long, second-and-short, all that, you just don’t have time to go back and repeat everything three and four times. There are corrections on every play; that’s what we practice for." the Hoodie said. Media members also asked about Dan Connolly's status, which b...
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