Patriots coach Bill Belichick sounds off on Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy

The Dallas Cowboys are riding high right now as they take their 4-1 record to the confines of Gillette Stadium for a Week 6 matchup against the New England Patriots, who are continuing to adjust to life without the ageless Tom Brady. 

Head coach Bill Belichick, who has lost only one time in his career current Cowboys and former Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy, had nothing but positive things to say about his opponent for tomorrow. 

"Well, I did compete against him. I have a ton of respect for Mike [McCarthy]. I talked to him and seen him at the owner's meetings and things like that. I think he does a great job offensively. Always watch their film. Take a look at the things they're doing. They have some very good concepts. He puts the defense in a lot of stress. Depending on what the defense is doing, he has different ways of, whether it's a zone, man, tempo, formations, route combinations, misdirection plays, plays that potentially slow the defense down or give them a conflict with their keys. Situationally, I think Mike is probably as good as anybody that we play against. It hasn't been very often, and I'm happy about that. I wouldn't want to play Mike twice a year."

"Mike's teams are sound fundamentally. You've got to go out there and play well to beat them. They don't beat themselves. They don't make mistakes. To stop them, you've got to go out there and play 60 minutes of good football. That's really hard. I think every time we've played them, I've always felt like they had a really good game plan and they had a really good plan of attack."

"They made it hard on us, and they're hard to defend. Not just the players, but the positions they put us in, how they try to attack us, and they have a variety of ways doing it, but at the end of the day, they gave us some problems. They challenged us, both schematically and with their personnel matchups."