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FOXBORO -- Moments ago, Patriots coach Bill Belichick spoke about Tom Brady's season-ending knee injury, which will require surgery.

While he did not set a date for when Brady will be back, he did reveal how he feels about the situation.

The following comments were from his 3 p.m. press conference at Foxboro:

"We feel badly for Tom about the injury," Belichick said. "You hate to see anyone go down. Nobody's worked harder and has done more for this team than Tom has so it's a tough setback for him."

Belichick said that nothing will change with Brady out.

"We all just have to do our jobs. That's what every player has to do. Each guy has a job to do, a coach, a player, they have a job to do, and they need to do it as well as they can. Really that doesn't change.

"[Brady] played one position and he played it very well. There will be somebody else playing that position now. I have a lot of confidence in Matt [Cassel] and everybody else does to. They just have to continue to do their job just like they always have and like they always need to."

Later in the press conference, Belichick said: "I think everybody is going to do the same thing that they will do every other week and that's understand what they have to do and do it as well as they can. Prepare as well as they can and go out there and play as well as they can. I think that's what we do. We each have a separate job to do."

Belichick said that he did not know when Brady would return.

"I'm sure when he's ready he'll be back out there."

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