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Mike Vrabel Hired by the New England Patriots: An Analysis
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1/18/2025
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00:00
The coaching cycle so far has been quite quiet.
00:04
We've only seen Mike Vrabel get a job.
00:07
We still have six remaining.
00:09
And I'll just start with Mike Vrabel quickly
00:12
as we've had a little bit more time to digest that news,
00:16
Leecey, do you find yourself thinking kind of one way
00:19
or another about that move by New England?
00:21
No, I mean, it makes sense in the sense
00:23
of you wanted a patriot, you know, the patriot way.
00:27
You wanted to maintain, you know,
00:28
the level of integrity and the discipline
00:32
that the Patriots had in the middle part,
00:34
early part with Bill Belichick,
00:36
obviously they tailed off in the last couple of seasons.
00:39
And you thought you had that in Gerard Mayo,
00:42
but from the coaching perspective and resume,
00:44
Mike Vrabel has more experience and has done more.
00:47
And again, does that mean Gerard Mayo
00:49
couldn't live up to those expectations eventually?
00:52
No, it's just that I think Kraft and the organization said,
00:56
we have an opportunity to get our guy.
00:58
We have an opportunity to get our guy now
01:00
and get back quickly to at least becoming
01:03
a winning football organization.
01:05
And that's what they did.
01:06
Do I agree with it?
01:07
No, the way it played out, it's unfortunate.
01:10
I thought Gerard Mayo was given only one year.
01:12
He should have been given at least two or three
01:14
with that roster, but that's what we see right now.
01:17
And I think Vrabel will get this team to a certain level.
01:20
I'm not so sure they get back to the playoffs
01:22
and be a contender like the Chiefs.
01:24
Very safe pick.
01:25
And I agree with this pick.
01:26
You just had an absolute abject disaster at head coach.
01:30
You can't afford to take a shot on another up-and-coming
01:32
coordinator to see how it's going to turn out.
01:34
You had to go for the sure thing.
01:36
One thing you know about Vrabel, he
01:37
understands the Patriot way.
01:38
He won in Tennessee at a high level
01:40
that you need Super Bowl champion?
01:41
No.
01:42
But he's going to come in and steady those waters here.
01:44
And as we said, they have really good draft capital
01:46
and a ton of money to spend.
01:48
This should work out.
01:49
They could not afford to take another risk on a head coaching
01:52
hire.
01:52
Yeah, I understand that they couldn't take a risk.
01:56
But I don't think that Ben Johnson would have been a risk.
02:00
I don't think that Joe Brady would have been a risk.
02:02
I think it would have been a, let's
02:04
try something different here.
02:05
And that's my issue, hesitation, if anything, with the hire.
02:10
Honestly, Vrabel could end up being good.
02:12
And I just, it's just doing the same thing now for 25 years.
02:18
It's a lot.
02:19
And you could say, well, why wouldn't we want a carbon cotton?
02:22
It was a mess for a decade.
02:25
However long it's been since Tom left,
02:27
it was a little bit of a mess towards the back end there.
02:29
Tom left for a reason.
02:31
And that just kind of bombed to me.
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