BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – It’s a dizzying blur of player-and-coach access reporters get from Monday through Thursday during Super Bowl week. Some of the best leftover quotes and quips I found in my digital audio recorder:

Bill Belichick, curmudgeonly Patriots head coach and proud Luddite, when asked if he’d seen any segments of Tom Brady’s life-at-home documentary posted at Facebook: “No, I don’t have SnapFace.”
Brandon Graham, ever-smiling Eagles defensive end, on where Eli Manning ranks among NFC East starting QBs: “I’d say three … No, he might be fourth.” This was before the Washington Redskins arranged to acquire Alex Smith via trade.
Cris Collinsworth, ex-Cincinnati Bengals WR and NBC game analyst, on how often he thinks about losing two close Super Bowls to Joe Montana and the San Francisco 49ers in the 1980s: “Only every day of my life.”
Josh McDaniels, Patriots offensive coordinator and Indianapolis Colts head-coach-in-waiting, on the necessity of adjusting schemes to fit players: “We could all sit here and draw up a lot of pretty-looking plays, but the guys who win plays are the players. So if you’re putting together some play or plan that they can’t execute, it’s a bad play, or a bad plan. The biggest thing you have to learn is what your players do well, and how can you keep putting them in positions to do those things over, and over, and over again?”
Fletcher Cox, Eagles defensive tackle, on which rule he’d like to see eliminated: “Defensive holding on defensive linemen. That’s rule’s GOTTA GO. I don’t know how you would get a holding penalty on a defensive lineman! I got one this year, by the way. That’s why I’m fired up about it.”
Matthew Slater, Patriots special-teams ace and backup WR, on how the game might change if the complete-the-catch-to-the-ground rule were eliminated: “That’s tough to say … I’m sure there are some fans that are glad the rule is the way it is right now, and there are some that aren’t … It would be nice to have just some clarity on that rule where we know when that’s a catch, and that’s not a catch. Right now there’s a lot of grey area because of the way that that rule is worded.”
Howie Roseman, Eagles GM, when bold player acquisitions don’t work out: “The hard part is accepting that you’re going to have some failure. But you have to have your good decisions WAY outweigh your bad ones … And when you make those bad decisions, research the heck out of it so you don’t do it again.”
Belichick, with eyes rolling in appropriate disgust, when asked at a news conference by some radio fanboy if the coach could supply four Super Bowl LII tickets to him, at cost: “I’ll put you on the list, yeah. On the 50, right? Yeah, gotcha.”