"It's everything," Ochocinco said, "not just what you see on the field, it's how we work in meetings. Every little thing has to be right or you're getting ripped. Everybody gets ripped, even Tom [Brady], me, everybody. In Cincinnati, nobody ever said anything to Carson [Palmer]. Not here, because that's the expectation. I love it. They expect perfection. You don't hear the coaches saying, 'Good play.' That's what you're supposed to do."
Haynesworth echoed that: "I've been around some really good teams, like that year [2008] we were 10-0 in Tennessee. But this is another 20 percent above that in terms of what everybody expects. We had a great coach in [former Titans coach] Jeff Fisher, but Belichick is beyond even that. He doesn't let anything slip through the cracks. Not one little thing. It all has to be right."
As for the 33-year-old Ochocinco, his sense of relief is constant. He talked about the morning last week when agent Drew Rosenhaus texted him, "Emergency, call ASAP." "I'm thinking, 'Yeah, what could this be?' " Ochocinco said, sarcastically. "I called Drew and he said, '[Bengals owner] Mike [Brown] has agreed to trade you to New England.' I just dropped the phone and started crying. I was just bawling. You know how it is on draft day when you finally get selected. It was like draft day all over again."
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