Mike Vrabel lays out expectations for players in fiery speech to kick off Patriots' offseason program

The New England Patriots person won six Super Bowl titles, but, successful caller years, the Patriots person experienced much losses than wins.

New England has finished 4 of the past 5 seasons with a losing record. Mike Vrabel, who played linebacker for the Patriots for 8 seasons and won 3 Super Bowls with the team, is present tasked with turning the erstwhile arrogant franchise around.

During his playing days, Vrabel learned what it took to scope large heights successful the NFL. This week, the first-year Patriots manager laid retired immoderate of the expectations helium has for players.

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New England Patriots caput manager Mike Vrabel discusses the team’s caller escaped cause additions with the media astatine Gillette Stadium March 13, 2025.  (Eric Canha/Imagn Images)

As the 2025 NFL Draft nears, the Patriots are kicking disconnected their offseason program. Some cardinal points from Vrabel's archetypal ceremonial code to the squad earlier this week person since circulated connected societal media. 

Players volition beryllium required to permission cellphones successful their idiosyncratic bags.

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"We've each got cellphones," Vrabel said. "Most of you person much than one, arsenic a substance of fact. Just permission the cellphone successful your bag. Just enactment the telephone away."

New England Patriots caput manager Mike Vrabel smiles portion posing with squad proprietor Robert Kraft, right, Jan. 13, 2025, successful Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

He besides wants players to beryllium connected time. If a subordinate is moving late, Vrabel instructed them to communicate. But helium besides doesn't privation it to go a habit.

Vrabel past asked players to defy pulling sweatshirt hoodies implicit their heads during meetings.

"We're gathering our ain identity," Vrabel said. "We're gathering our ain team. We're gathering our ain program. There are going to beryllium things wrong that that are antithetic ... and it's each astir however we marque you guys arsenic bully arsenic you tin perchance beryllium arsenic an individual, arsenic a subordinate and arsenic a team. That's our full goal, and you person to commencement knowing that — wherefore we're doing what we're doing."

Mike Vrabel acknowledgment Patriots fans during a halftime solemnisation aft being inducted into the Patriots Hall of Fame successful 2023 (Imagn)

Vrabel besides stressed that employees who enactment astatine the team's office are determination to "help" players beryllium successful, but they are not the athletes' "housekeepers."

"They are present to assistance you bash your job," Vrabel said. "They aren't present to beryllium your valet, to beryllium your housekeeper, to beryllium your butler. You get wherever I'm going? We're going to dainty those radical with the utmost respect."

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The Patriots and Bill Belichick agreed to portion ways successful January 2024 aft the Patriots lone appeared successful 1 playoff crippled successful the 4 seasons aft Tom Brady's exit.

Shortly aft Belichick's departure, Jerrod Mayo was named the Patriots' caput coach. Mayo was dismissed aft the 2024 play finale, and Vrabel took over. Vrabel was the Tennessee Titans' caput manager from 2018-23 and spent the 2024 play arsenic a advisor with the Cleveland Browns.

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