WEEI Afternoons: The Patriots are prioritizing Mike Vrabel's wants

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00:00and that he had comfort with it, and Wolf explaining that

00:04he's there basically to serve Mike and what he wants in players, so

00:08it seems like everything is moving smoothly.

00:11Mike's preferences are probably going to be,

00:14in my estimation, just reading Mike's preferences

00:18will get first airing, and then if you're going to talk him off at Elliot Wolf, who

00:23is the general manager, you're going to have to

00:25have some good solid logic for moving him off a player. Like who

00:29decided the culture was that important with this team this year? Who made that

00:34decision? I would imagine it was very much a

00:37Vrabel-inspired decision, so if that's been the

00:40marching order throughout free agency, that's a coach-type decision, isn't it,

00:45generally? No doubt. I mean, they're going to work hand in

00:48hand, but Mike wants a particular kind of locker room,

00:51and the personnel folks aren't in the locker room as much, so I would say that

00:56this shows who they've gotten and the reasoning that they've used

01:01time and again in terms of culture is Mike's

01:05vision for what he wants.