PHOENIX — It’s the moment New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick waited nine days for, Super Bowl Media Day.

“We are focused on the Seattle Seahawks,” Belichick said from a director’s chair facing hundreds of media and a partially filled lower bowl on the floor of U.S. Airways Center Tuesday morning.

Having held two press conferences and spent hours by his self-calculation familiarizing himself with the pregame football inspection protocol, process and procedures, the coach is, as he likes to phrase it, “On to Seattle.”

Belichick said he didn’t tell his team not to talk about the NFL investigation, nor does believe it’s necessary.

“This is what you work your whole year for, your whole life for, is to get to this game,” Belichick said.

With questions spanning from predictable to inane, Belichick’s session was anything but ordinary. He was a few yards shy of jovial, and tapped the brakes on topics he would never touch.

Belichick did offer a thoughtful response to left-field queries, such as “What is your favorite stuffed animal?” — a monkey puppet, of course — and discussed in detail his friendship with rocker Jon Bon Jovi, sharing a memory of going on stage at a concert with his son (won’t do that again, the coach said) and snarled at the idea that Bon Jovi was disloyal by going on the sidelines at New York Giants games.

For 45 minutes, it was not deflating conversation about legacy, or air pressure, and Belichick effectively paused the public clamoring for more “CSI: PSI.”

The Patriots hold three more full workouts this week and a walk-through Saturday, when New England will shift hotels as players, coaches and staff narrow the attention to Super Bowl XLIX. Their schedule includes two extended media sessions at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass, where the Patriots are staying for the week, and Belichick is required to take part in a shared press conference with Seahawks coach Pete Carroll early Friday morning.

Belichick said he understands the part of the job that pushes him before cameras and microphones. And wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt with Patriots scripted on the front and faded blue jeans with a black backpack, he genuinely seemed to show interest in cooperating, even if he doesn’t enjoy the flesh-pressing moments with the media.

“It’s a way for us to connect to our fans,” Belichick said. “It’s why we’re all here.”