Brian Ferentz meets the New England Patriots' media

Friday was Brian Ferentz's turn to hold a press conference of sorts.

The son of Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz and former Hawkeye center is now the tight ends coach with the New England Patriots. Not a bad gig for a 27-year-old in his first coaching job.

Every question but one was about -- duh -- the Pats' tight ends. They have two very good, productive rookies at that position in Aaron Hernandez and Rob Gronkowski. But here's the one Q and A you might find most interesting from the transcript at Patriots.com:

Q: How have you gotten to where you are? Where have your influences come from?

BF: I don't know where I'm at right now. I don't feel very comfortable saying that I'm anywhere. What I do is I try to come to work every day; I try to work as hard as I can and do what I'm asked to do, whatever that may be. As far as learning from one guy in particular or another guy, I think I've been very fortunate with the family I was born into. You don't choose your parents, and I was very lucky. My father obviously probably gets a little bit more attention than my mother. She was very instrumental in raising me, and still is to this day. I think whether I learn from him or Bill [Belichick] or whoever it is, what I try to do is just learn every day. I hope our players take the same approach. I think everyone on the staff does. The best advice I ever received is once you think you've got it figured out, you should probably get out of the business. Every day is a learning experience. I learn something from Alge (tight end Alge Crumpler) every day. I learn something from the young guys every day. Hopefully they learn from me. I can't tell you that. Sometimes it doesn't feel like that. My approach, who do I learn from, where do I take something from, I just try to learn from everybody. I was fortunate to be around a lot of other good coaches at the University of Iowa, not just my dad. I would say he's fortunate to be around a lot of good coaches. He's lucky enough that they stick around and put up with him. Who [do] I learn from? Whoever I'm around. I'll probably learn something from you guys today.