Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel reveals reasoning for return to New England

Mike Vrabel returned to the New England Patriots to beryllium their caput manager this offseason aft helium won 3 Super Bowls with the squad arsenic a player. 

Vrabel, 49, spent 8 of his 14 seasons successful his playing vocation arsenic a linebacker for the Patriots and was a cardinal cog successful their defense. Vrabel is successful the Patriots Hall of Fame.

Vrabel talked astir wherefore helium felt this play was the close clip for him to instrumentality to New England arsenic a manager during an quality connected OutKick’s "Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich."

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New England Patriots caput manager Mike Vrabel discusses the team’s caller escaped cause additions astatine Gillette Stadium successful Foxborough, Mass., connected March 13, 2025. (Eric Canha-Imagn Images)

"I deliberation that wherever I ended up, ultimately, erstwhile things opened up and I started interviewing, I deliberation it was the close clip to travel back. I had opportunities earlier to travel backmost present successful different capacities, and I felt similar I wanted to person my ain coaching journey, which I person and learned from a batch of large radical and coaches," Vrabel said.

Once his playing vocation ended successful 2010, Vrabel served arsenic the linebackers and antiaircraft enactment manager astatine his alma mater, Ohio State, for 3 seasons. 

Vrabel’s archetypal twelvemonth coaching successful the NFL was 2014, erstwhile helium was the linebackers manager for 3 seasons with the Houston Texans earlier being promoted to antiaircraft coordinator successful 2017. 

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New England Patriots linebacker Mike Vrabel walks disconnected the tract aft losing to the New York Giants successful Super Bowl XLII connected Feb. 3, 2008. (IMAGN)

After 1 play arsenic antiaircraft coordinator, Vrabel was hired by the Tennessee Titans successful 2018 to beryllium their caput coach. Vrabel spent six seasons with the Titans successful that relation earlier being fired astatine the extremity of the 2023 season. 

Vrabel spent past play with the Cleveland Browns arsenic a coaching and unit consultant, and helium was successful precocious request successful this year’s caput manager hunt cycle.

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Mike Vrabel acknowledgment fans aft being inducted into the Patriots Hall of Fame successful 2023. (IMAGN)

"I felt similar the clip was close [to return]. I appreciated the interviews with [the Chicago Bears] and with the [New York Jets] and those organizations, and past erstwhile I was capable to get here, we were capable to get thing done."

Vrabel is tasked with turning astir a Patriots squad that finished past successful the AFC East astatine 4-13 successful the 2024 season. 

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