By Danny Picard
CSNNE.com Staff ReporterFollow @dannypicard
FOXBORO -- With Week 1 getting closer, Patriots coach Bill Belichick was asked about the teams captains, who havent been officially announced yet, and he responded by acknowledging New Englands solid leadership up and down the board.
I think we have a lot of good leadership on this team, regardless of who the captains are, said Belichick. Leadership will come from all the players who provide that.
When asked if Belichick ever tells players to take on more of a leadership role in the locker room, he said its just one aspect of the game that the coaching staff is telling its players to improve on.
I think we go to our players all the time and tell them what we want them to do, said Belichick. If theyre doing something well, we try and reinforce that. We tell them that theyre doing a good job with this, this is exactly what we want done, keep doing this, or this is something you need to improve on, or this is something that you could do better.
Sometimes we do that to more than one person, call them in collectively, and say, Look, heres something with you guys thats good, and heres something that isnt so good. . . . We try to coach them the best we can in all phases of the game.
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