Bill Belichick

He did the same thing.

There were

Um, certain players got a little more grace than others based on, um, you know, what they had done for us and, and they, I would say kind of earned that.

So, um, I tried not to do that, but there were times when, you know, when I did, but I tried to treat everybody well.

The same, you know, they're not all the same, but you certainly want everybody to feel that, you know, we're all team members and it's not, you know, we don't have an elite society here.

We have different ranks and certain players can do some things and other players couldn't.

So.

I try to make it as consistent as possible, but at the same time, I think you have to be flexible in a professional football environment for some latitude and maybe for some, it's called exceptions to your rules.

You know, I made it very clear before we went down there that, you know, it was a business trip.

And, yeah, we had a great year and we were all celebrating the Super Bowl and what we had accomplished to get there.

But here are the rules.

And you don't have to break the rules.

Go to the other person's room if you want to be with them.

But our floors are secure.

And at the Super Bowl in particular, there's a good reason for that.

you know, with Super Bowl tickets and guys with valuables and stuff like that.

If it's not one of our players on the floor, I don't know whether that person is a friend of our players or an intruder.

There's really no way to know.

And no matter what, you know, I mean, unless I knew the person for some reason.

But you know what I mean?