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FOXBORO - It was a happy and refreshed Bill Belichick who participated in Monday afternoon's conference call from San Jose State University.

That's exactly what the coach wanted to accomplish for his Patriots following Sunday's 30-21 victory over the San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park.

"It's good to wake up here this morning, get on the film and get working on finishing up the San Francisco game, instead of traveling back and forth across the country," Belichick said from the Patriots' temporary home for the week. "I think we had a good meeting today. I think everybody's refreshed and is positive after the game yesterday."

The Patriots have opted to stay at SJSU, a popular stand-in with many professional and amateur sports organizations (it served as a staging area for the U.S. Olympic team this past summer) until Saturday, when they will fly to San Diego for Sunday night's meeting with the 2-3 Chargers at Qualcomm Stadium (8:15 p.m.; Ch. 7, 10).

As far as Belichick is concerned, the week will be conducted as if Gillette Stadium had been moved 3,130 miles to the west. "It will be a normal week for us," he said. "We will treat it right now like it's a home game. We really didn't travel last night. We are doing the same thing today that we would do on Monday following a home game.

"It will be like that for the entire week," he said. "Then we will have our normal Saturday and travel like we would on a normal Saturday traveling day."

Already, the Patriots' extended stay in California has met with the players' approval.

"To play a game like this, such a physical game, a long grinding game, and then to have to fly back six hours to the East Coast, and to try to get yourself re-acclimated and get some rest, practice for a few days and fly right back, I thought that was probably the dumbest thing we could possibly do," safety Rodney Harrison said. "For us to play a game and to come back, to be able to sleep in and hydrate and have the guys with bumps and bruises get that taken care of, I thought that was really nice to be on a regular schedule, knowing that you don't have to fly six hours.

"I think it's great for us," he added. "I mean, I'm 35 years old, so I need to feel as good as possible."

"I kind of like it," said wide receiver Wes Welker. "It's almost like the training camp aspect, where it's all football. Everything's football. All the film and stuff is right downstairs, and for me, I don't have to worry about traffic or anything like that, so it's a nice little change of pace."

The Patriots will practice at the Spartan Stadium complex beginning Wednesday. The weather forecast for the week is absolutely perfect, sunny with temperatures in the low 80s through Friday.

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After Sunday's game, Belichick quipped that Kevin Faulk's two touchdowns on rushing plays may have marked the first time he had done that since "fourth grade."

Not so. "That might have been one of the times when Bill was a little bit incorrect," Faulk said, laughing. "I think it was in college that it happened."

Faulk said he couldn't remember specifically which of his games at Louisiana State featured two rushing touchdowns, however.

"I barely can remember what happened a couple of weeks ago," he said.