Concentrate, New England media, Mike Vrabel’s first coaching camp as Patriots coach is now in session.
One Boston reporter discovered that lesson the arduous method Tuesday after they obtained a scolding from the Patriots’ Tremendous Bowl-winning linebacker-turned-head coach at a press convention after posing an identical query that Vrabel had already answered about how gamers utilized their time away from the power.
“I mean, whether you were in a coma when I answered Tom’s [Curran] question, typing on your phone or tweeting, I don’t know, but I spent five minutes answering that question. I can go back through it, but I’d rather not,” Vrabel stated.
The Boston Globe’s Ben Volin was on the receiving finish of the Vrabel call-out and flagged himself for a “total lack of focus.”
As Tuesday’s press convention continued, Vrabel supplied additional context on the gamers’ conditioning and expressed hope that he wouldn’t must repeat himself down the road.
“We won’t know — we did pretty good on the linear run test, which they practiced; they knew what it was going to be. The big thing will come when they’re in line contact. You’re sitting there, you’re wrestling with a guy, and then the D-lineman’s rushing, he almost gets to the quarterback, but we’re telling him to plant, run and go sprint to the football, and then go do it again. Or, we’re asking Kyle Williams to go run a post, and he didn’t get the ball, but he wanted to get the ball, but he didn’t. Can he run back, get set and know what to do the next play? That’s really where we’ll see. So, I’ll be able to answer that question, again, hopefully only once, in a few days,” he stated.
Vrabel, 49, is tasked with restoring the Patriots to their glory days following a string of dreadful seasons underneath his former coach, Invoice Belichick, and fellow New England alum Jerod Mayo, who was fired in January after an embarrassing 4-13 marketing campaign.
He spent the 2024 season as a training and personnel guide with the Browns after being fired by the Titans in January of that 12 months following six seasons on the helm.
A profitable tradition is on the forefront of Vrabel’s sport plan getting into coaching camp.
“I have to continue to teach, develop and make connections with our guys. Through that, preparing them to win, and the situations, getting them to understand that there’s different ways to win a football game. There’s a lot of ways to lose them, but we want to focus on the ways that we’re going to win, and sometimes that’s going to be different each and every week with whatever that plan to win is each and every week. I have to try to do that. I have to get our coaches to do that and get our players to understand that,” he stated.
The Patriots open the season at dwelling towards the Raiders on Sept. 7.
