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Originally Posted by Katipan
Belichick explained that he forces a culture of anti-bitching about balls. If players talk about the balls, he makes them play with worse ball in practice. It's more reasonable to assume he would want ALL the players on the field to feel the Brady balls.
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I don't think that's true. What I think Belichick was saying is that he makes the practice balls as bad as possible so WHATEVER the game ball condition is, it will be better than the practice balls.
I don't think he's getting the team ready to use Brady's pre-selected footballs. Also, see my other post. He isn't picking 24 balls prior to the week of practice. He picks them, presumably out of a much larger pool, shortly before the game. Once he picks them, I doubt they get handed out for the entire team to screw around with.