FOXBOROUGH — Though he has begun the season 3-0 with Jimmy Garoppolo and Jacoby Brissett at quarterback, Bill Belichick deflected the idea that quarterback success in New England is a product of the team’s system.

“Well, of course the players’ talents are important,’’ Belichick said in a conference call Friday morning. “They’re the ones that win the game. Who do you think goes out there and runs the ball, and blocks, and tackles, and throws and catches? It’s all of the players. Who else does it besides them?’’

Wide receiver Danny Amen­dola also dismissed the notion.

“Great coach, great football player. That’s it,’’ Amendola said.

Amendola said he had “no idea what you’re talking about’’ with regard to the possibility that the Patriots may be in for yet another quarterback switch due to Brissett’s reported thumb injury.

If he has to get on the same page with yet another quarterback, however, no problem.

“It’s a spiral and it’s a football flying through the air so you’ve just got to catch it whether, whoever’s throwing it,’’ he said. “That’s pretty much it.’’

The connection between wide receiver is important, Amendola said, but it’s not the only thing that matters in devising a successful game on offense.

“The more you work with a guy the more familiar with him, just like anything else, but every play is different, every route is different, every situation is different,’’ he said. “There’s a lot of variables on every play whether it’s the route or who you’re going against, the coverage that they’re playing, you’ve got to be on the same page with the whole program.’’

Amendola said “everybody was really happy for’’ Brissett, who completed 11 of 19 passes for 103 yards and also ran for a touchdown.

Shockingly, Amendola also said he wasn’t sick of talking about the quarterbacks.

“They throw me the ball so I like talking about them,’’ he said.

Team first

Belichick noted that tight end Rob Gronkowski, who played just 14 offensive snaps almost exclusively in a blocking role, was “obviously limited.’’

“I thought it was good to have him out there,’’ Belichick said.

Even in the glow of the one-sided win, the coach was still classic Belichick. He got in a jab when asked about Jamie Collins acting as the signal caller on defense with Dont’a Hightower absent.

Collins, who clearly wasn’t bothered too much as he led the team with 14 tackles and an interception Thursday, has said in the past that he’s not fond of wearing the green dot on his helmet. Belichick countered that by saying that players sometimes have to do things they don’t like to do to help the team.

“If an athlete wants to do his individual thing, then play an individual sport,’’ he said. “Be a swimmer or play tennis or go do whatever you want as an individual sport.’’

And those spiffy navy color rush uniforms?

“I mean, I can’t even tell you how excited I was about the uniforms last night,’’ he said. “That’s really incredible.’’

Immovable force

The source of the epidemic lethargy that consumed the Texans Thursday night has been discovered. No, not the Patriots’ smothering defense — traffic was the culprit.

Houston made the odd decision for the team to stay a half-hour away from Gillette Stadium in Waltham. Engulfed in the double whammy of rush-hour and gameday traffic, it took the team bus an hour and 20 minutes to get to Gillette, where they arrived “zonked’’ at 6:15 p.m., according to an NFL Network report.

It seems like Bill O’Brien should have known better. He is from Massachusetts, went to Brown, and coached with the Patriots for five years. But apparently none of Foxborough’s many finely appointed hotels were satisfactory.

Nora Princiotti can be reached at nora.princiotti@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter at @NoraPrinciotti.