{"id":12201,"date":"2025-01-29T16:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T16:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=12201"},"modified":"2025-01-29T16:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T16:19:05","slug":"breaking-patriots-mike-vrabel-took-specific-approach-to-building-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=12201","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING : Patriots&#8217; Mike Vrabel Took Specific Approach To Building Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-2009195\"><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.www.nfl.com\/image\/upload\/t_editorial_landscape_12_desktop\/league\/ofahszzcpl1efjwdc3eu\" alt=\"Mike Vrabel wants to 'galvanize' Patriots franchise, 'remove entitlement'  from team as new head coach\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel had a specific vision when building his new coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>New England intentionally struck a \u201cbalance\u201d between adding experienced coaches and young assistants who are on the rise, according to Vrabel.<\/p>\n<p>Vrabel spoke more about his vision with the team\u2019s website at the Senior Bowl, specifically as it relates to offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels and defensive coordinator Terrell Williams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s an experience level that\u2019s critical. There\u2019s been some growth from the offense over the years, and (McDaniels) has blended that with some of the new trends, but the foundation will remain the same,\u201d Vrabel told Evan Lazar. \u201cI\u2019m excited about adding some of those new trends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to invest in people, and (Williams) is one,\u201d Vrabel also said. \u201cHe\u2019s a great person, a great coach. He\u2019s got a large, wide reach on every player that he\u2019s ever been around, and he\u2019s made an impact. He was very instrumental in our success in Tennessee. The opportunity to be able to get (Williams) here, I felt like that was important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots added a combined 51 years of coaching experience between McDaniels and Williams, while skewing younger with the majority of the reported position coach hires.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Ashton Grant and Riley Larkin will work directly under McDaniels, neither having coached in the NFL before landing jobs in New England. Thomas Brown and Doug Marrone, however, each have long coaching resumes that include stints as head coaches, and will be tasked with helping modernize the offense.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Richardson II, Clinton McMillan, Zak Kuhr and Milton Patterson are all younger defensive coaches who are expected to join the defensive staff under Williams. The Patriots could still add veteran voices on that side of the ball, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Vrabel did a pretty decent job of striking that balance, but we\u2019ll have to wait and see if it results in improvements on the field.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel had a specific vision when building his new coaching staff, and made it come to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-england-patriots"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING : Patriots&#039; Mike Vrabel Took Specific Approach To Building Staff - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=12201\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING : Patriots&#039; 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