Bill Belichick

Now, if this was the game to win the division, then okay, let's talk about winning the division.

But until we get to that point, you know, manage the expectations.

The expectations are to have a good day today, have a good week, and to win this game.

But those are our weekly, you know, expectations, you know, not where we're going to be in January, who we're going to play in the playoffs or, again, managing expectations of like, oh, this guy should go out and, you know, he should have two or two thousand yards receiving.

why don't you just worry about what you're going to do and, you know, stop talking about what other people, what your expectations are for them.

That's speaking for yourself, but that's also managing expectations or, or a player saying, well, I expect to, you know, I expect to go to the Pro Bowl.

Well,

Is that your goal to go to the Pro Bowl or is our goal to win a championship?

And let's go back here for a minute.

You know, what are our expectations?

Like, let's think about what's the first thing first.

Put the team first.

You know, and that's, you know, team, teammates, self.

That was the whole, you know, progression of, you know, trying to put the priorities in order for each of us.

Yeah, you know, Shane, it's funny.

Sometimes you play a game and you feel like you have control of the game, but you don't have control of the score.

And that was that game.

I felt like we had pretty good control of the game, but we didn't control the score at all.

There are other games where you have control of the score and you don't have control of the game.

You know, maybe you're ahead by...