Jimmy Garoppolo on footballs: “I came from a small school (Eastern Illinois), we had about four or five footballs for the year. I don’t know. I’m used to using whatever. It’s one of those things you can’t put too much thought into. A football is a football. You just have to go out and throw it.”
Devin McCourty’s take: “If it doesn’t involve intercepting or stripping the ball, the defense doesn’t want to talk about it. ... Honestly, I just don’t care at all about that issue.”
Kyle Arrington on where the team goes from here: “Ignore the noise. It sounds like I’m preaching at this point, but that’s our motto. It’s what we firmly believe in. We have one job to do and hopefully we will come out on top of this one. Just let the dust settle.”
Duron Harmon on Belichick’s “no-knowledge” of the situation: “It’s the truth. Coach Belichick never lied to us, never told us anything that would make us not believe what he told us. That’s our coach. That’s our leader and that’s who we are going to follow and believe.”
Ryan Allen on moving forward: “Like I said, I have nothing else to further shed light on the ball situation. We are just focused on what we need to do this week and next week to focus on Seattle.”
Matthew Slater on being called “cheaters:” “I’m not really aware of what’s being said outside of the locker room. ... It’s unfortunate. We’d rather be celebrating our trip to the Super Bowl. But the situation is what it is.”
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