Patriots Strategy: Mayo's Exit and Vrabel's Impact Explained

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00:00I would have thought New England initially preseason would have let Mayo

00:04Learn right. They knew it was his first time as a head coach. They've had him in their building for a long time and

00:10I thought if they would have moved on from Gerard Mayo then maybe they wanted to try and shake things up

00:15Maybe a Ben Johnson, maybe they couldn't get Ben Johnson, but they've made their move very quickly here

00:20So it looks like the idea is still the the Patriot way

00:24So what could that mean for their ensuing offseason? They currently hold the fourth overall pick

00:31Yeah, so a couple things here

00:32first of all with Mike Rabel there were other teams involved that the Patriots knew if they wanted they had to act fast and

00:38That's that's the big reason why they did it plus they know him

00:40This guy's a very successful for a while a head coach for the Titans a former coach of the year

00:45They know what they were getting because Kevin as you know, he was in their building for many years as a football player

00:50So they're looking to

00:52Sort of duplicate that success now, let's let's go forward

00:55What what can we expect out of Mike Mike Rabel?

00:57So a coaching source who?

00:58Worked with Mike for a number of years told me that despite his reputation for being run first and win with defense

01:05Well, they had Derek Henry for Tennessee

01:07Had Rabel not been fired

01:10They were they were not going to be moving on with Derek Henry

01:14Derek Henry was going to be gone as they understand no matter what if Rabel he was going to come back to the Titans

01:19So what what what Mike has told people at least he did then his last coach of staff was

01:24He wanted to be more forward-thinking

01:25I'm not it wasn't going to be a pass first guy

01:28But more a little bit more of balance stop coming out just try to run the ball establish the run which is kind of a

01:33Fallacy Kevin and try to be more forward-thinking so that could happen here now Drake may

01:38The one thing that the coaching agent told me this week was before they had the agreement with Rabil today

01:44Is that you look at Drake may that's the one ace in the hole that they have they have their

01:49Quarterback, they have to continue to develop them, but he's got enormous arm pretty athletic

01:53He's a little bit more ahead of schedule when people thought yes

01:55They have to help them and that's where I'm going next year Kevin the Patriots have a bottom five roster

02:01They need much more talent at receiver remember they try to get Brandon. I you they try to get Calvin Ridley

02:06They've admitted clearly that they know they have to upgrade at the Robert Shearer position

02:10They have to get younger and more athletic at tight end. They have to improve their offensive line

02:14They have a bottom half of the NFL clearly

02:17Difficult offensive line and they need more playmakers on defense so there's a reason why this team was it was bad wasn't that Mayo?

02:24Struggle a little bit he did but the roster is clearly poor and that that's why this is a rebuild

02:29But a rebuild not needing quarterback