FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick will be breaking down the film of the team’s next opponent, but he won’t be doing it while watching live TV this weekend with the rest of us.

Belichick was asked how much help it can be to watch the games live.

“Less than 1 percent,” Belichick said during his news conference on Wednesday. “Less than 1 percent, I’d say. At the game live we can actually see what’s -- but then you have to travel and all that. Now you can get the film just as quickly. But I’d say watching it live versus watching it on TV, you would be able to get a lot more, a lot more out of it.”

Belichick, who has 40 years of coaching experience in football, lectured on the evolution of game film for all of the football nerds out there.

Belichick grew up watching his dad scout games live, back when the turnover for game film was two days, which is a long time when teams are trying to game plan for their next opponent.

“I’m not saying they didn’t have them, but there was a time lapse there,” Belichick said. “You’re trying to make up game plans, you haven’t even seen the game film yet, so you had to rely on live game scouting so it was critical.

“As technology has evolved it’s become less so. Certain things you can get from a game live that you don’t get off film, especially things like no-huddle and the communication procedures, things like that.”

Even the time of film has evolved, as Belichick and coaches throughout the league can select one player to focus on thanks to computerization of film.

“You can get a lot of information now that’s already preset for you,” Belichick said. “All the players that are on the field, so if you just want to watch all the plays with No. 79, you can click it and you’ve got them. Whereas even five years ago, you were, ‘Is that 78, is that 79? That’s the guy with the tape on his left hand.’

“Things like that are a lot easier now: down, distance, field position, who the ball carrier was, who the penalty was on, all the stuff that basically comes off the play-by-play stats. That’s all entered in. It’s quicker that way. It’s like anything else.”

While Belichick appreciates the speed and efficiency of modern game film, he still sees the advantages of old-school film review with live scouts.

“The downside of that is when you do it yourself, you really know what it is and you remember it,” Belichick said. “When you just see a bunch of crap on the page then you kind of skim through it and you get what you want to get out of it, but it’s not like detailing it [and] writing it out yourself.”

With game film being processed quickly in today’s game, Belichick will crack into the game film of the Patriots’ next opponent within hours of the game’s conclusion.

“Certainly by the next morning; depending on when the game is, maybe even later that evening,” Belichick said. “A 1 o’clock game, you can probably get to it by 7, 8 o’clock at night.”