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With the Patriots back in Foxboro for offseason workouts, we’re all getting our first look into how Mike Vrabel’s impact is being felt so far. There’s a lot expected of Vrabel, who was hired this offseason, even without the whole ‘Patriot Way’ stuff hanging over his head.<\/p>\n
And if you were looking to get way too excited, way too early in the season, you’re in luck. While talking to the Boston Herald’s Doug Kyed, new Patriots linebacker Harold Landry went into a good bit of detail about not only what it’s like to play for Vrabel, but why following him to New England \u2013 the two were together when Vrabel was the coach in Tennessee \u2013 was such an easy decision.<\/p>\n
“I feel like one of the main jobs for a head coach is to make sure your team\u2019s prepared situationally,\u201d Landry said. \u201cAnd all I know is, as long as I played for Vrabes, there was never a situation I wasn\u2019t prepared for. Like, I don\u2019t care what the score was in the fourth quarter. I don\u2019t know. We just always had a feeling that we was going to pull this out. Didn\u2019t matter what the score was going into the fourth and we just always found a way to win. It\u2019s crazy. We just found a way to win. And that was just kind of the mentality. We just didn\u2019t think we could lose, to be honest, no matter what was going on in the game.”<\/p>\n
Weird, that also sounds a lot like another Patriots coach. I wonder where Vrabel gets it from! Belichick stuff aside, considering how unprepared the Patriots looked throughout last year’s slog of a season, it’s especially rewarding to hear a player speak so highly about a coach’s process. And it already kinda feels like people want to play for the Patriots more now than they have in the last 3-4 years, so things are starting to look up.<\/p>\n
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I don’t want to sound too crazy, but at this rate, players may start talking about winning games soon. Then, maybe, a home wild card. The sky’s the limit with Mike Vrabel and his preparation \u2013 that’s my story, at least, and I’m sticking with it until the first really ugly Dolphins loss of the year.<\/p>\n Are … are the Patriots back?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-england-patriots"],"yoast_head":"\n