Mike Vrabel shows how far he’ll go for his Patriots players, spilling more than just sweat during a practice spat
Vrabel is two-thirds of the way to the phrase “blood, sweat, and tears” after Wednesday’s practice.
As a player, you love to know just how far your head coach is willing to go for you as a member of the team. And for the New England Patriots and new head coach Mike Vrabel, players just got a first-hand example of it. In the midst of a practice scrum on Wednesday, the former Patriots defender and head coach did not hesitate to jump into the pile and shed more than just a few drops of sweat in the process.
The phrase ‘blood, sweat, and tears’ comes to mind.
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Talk about putting yourself out there for your players. Vrabel has poured plenty of sweat into his new team this summer, but now he’s pouring blood for them, too. It is no surprise that a former player like Vrabel offered zero hesitation to jump into the fray when frustrations poured over.
For a coach like Vrabel, who is taking over a downtrodden and once proud organization, finding those moments to galvanize the players and prompt buy-in can be lightning rod moments. After a long first two weeks of camp, New England may have caught their first strike of lightning in a bottle. That is, of course, if the reaction to the scrap and Vrabel’s willingness to jump into the fray is received the right way.
Given his status as a former player, Vrabel undoubtedly gets ‘it’.
And the thought of Vrabel pulling himself out of the pile in the dog days of summer with a cut on his face should be one that helps all of his players to feel confident that he’s going to lay it on the line for them every single week — and if they can do the same, New England can recapture some of that old magic sooner rather than later.
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