Patriots’ Belichick begins formulating plan to contain high- flflying

FOXBOROUGH, MASS. — Bill Belichick is on to the Atlanta Falcons.

After taking a day to review and recharge following his team’s AFC championship game win over Pittsburgh, the New England coach said Tuesday that the coaching staffff ’s preparations are fully underway for the Super Bowl.

The Patriots are preparing for their seventh Super Bowl berth during the Belichick era, making them veterans at this point in handling the various logistics involved with the big game. Belichick said it’s helped them turn the page “about as quickly as we could.”

“We’re on to Atlanta now as a coaching staffffffffffff. We’re deep in the middle of them,” he said.

New England has fond memories of the Super Bowl played in Houston, having won in 2004 on Adam Vinatieri’s fifield goal in the closing seconds to beat the Carolina Panthers.

“There was a big matchup against our kind of no-name’ offffffffffffensive line and a very good defensive front that the Panthers had,” Belichick recalled.

But Belichick says that’s the furthest thing from his mind as his team prepares for a Falcons team it hasn’t seen much on fifilm this season with fifive common opponents (San Francisco, Los Angeles Rams, Seattle, Arizona and Denver).

The Patriots do have some familiarity with Falcons coach Dan Quinn, who was defensive coordinator of the Seattle Seahawks when the teams met in the Super Bowl two