Is Bill Belichick Coaching for His Job against the Indianapolis Colts?

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick was asked this week if he had any assurances from ownership that his job was safe.

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00:00 - Hi, Bill.

00:01 Have you been given any assurances from ownership

00:04 about your job status for the rest of the season?

00:07 - Yeah, my focus is on getting ready for the Colts.

00:09 - Do you personally believe that you could be coaching

00:13 for your job this week against the Colts?

00:15 - I'm gonna control what I can control.

00:18 I'm gonna get ready for the Colts.

00:20 Yeah, obviously we need to do a better job.

00:24 It's a combination of things, but yeah,

00:27 need to do a better job.

00:29 - Yeah, well, like yesterday, we had our chances.

00:32 We just, you know, need to make more plays

00:35 than at the critical times in the game.

00:38 So, but that's, you know, that's in the past here.

00:43 Moving ahead to Indianapolis and, you know,

00:46 get ready for the Colts.

00:47 Yeah, I don't know if I really see it that way,

00:51 but yeah, fundamental tackling is always important.

00:55 Work on that every week and we'll always work on it.

00:57 And it's the most important part of defense,

00:59 getting the ball, getting the guy with the ball

01:01 on the ground.

01:02 So, times are fundamentals, could need to be better,

01:06 could be better, and we'll keep working on it.

01:09 Yeah, well, it's been a transition.

01:11 I think his off-field training and physical,

01:16 you know, health and conditioning,

01:18 the conditioning has definitely improved.

01:20 And so he's done a good job, you know, working at that.

01:25 And then, you know, just the consistency

01:28 in the secondary from everybody is, you know,

01:32 something we need to do a better job of.