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Postgame Press Conference Sunday, September 14, 2025 Looks like you're trying to keep up with Antonio along the sideline. What were you doing? MIKE VRABEL: Again, I told you, we had to have those guys be a weapon for us. Too many times we had penalties, and we didn't. Rhamondre answered and then Gibby answered.

Again, we had a similar situation in practice where we had a couple bad plays, and I'm like we've got to just keep — we're going on. We've got to snap the next play. Then somebody hit a play, a back hit a play. I'm like, you see, it just takes one play. That's exactly what Rhamondre did to get us out of that lull. We unfortunately just gave up the punt return but then answered, and Gibby answered and that unit answered.

Again, I felt like we were willing to get into a street fight. We had a little lull, and we didn't pack it up and quit. To follow up on that, was that involuntary by you, running along? Just talk about that, where you were when all that was happening? MIKE VRABEL: I just was watching about the 50. I'm just excited for these guys.

I'm really excited that they could fight and compete, come on the road, be in a game, get off to a good start, not be front runners — everything that we talked about. We tried to get the drive stops sometimes. We ended the drives with scores, with touchdowns, much better in the red zone. Offensively the only thing that stopped us today was us, so there was a lot of really good keys there. Again, the penalties on special teams, there's lots to coach from, but it's going to be easier to coach from a win. We'll be able to coach them hard and make sure we're trying to fix the things that hurt us.

We got off to a good start. Again, we knew that a lot of that was to make sure we made them earn it, and we didn't get the drive stop on a couple of those X plays and they scored... New England Patriots Head Coach Mike Vrabel Looks like you’re trying to keep up with Antonio along the sideline. What were you doing? MIKE VRABEL: Again, I told you, we had to have those guys be a weapon for us.

Too many times we had penalties, and we didn’t. Rhamondre answered and then Gibby answered. Again, we had a similar situation in practice where we had a couple bad plays, and I’m like we’ve got to just keep — we’re going on. We’ve got to snap the next play. Then somebody hit a play, a back hit a play. I’m like, you see, it just takes one play.

That’s exactly what Rhamondre did to get us out of that lull. We unfortunately just gave up the punt return but then answered, and Gibby answered and that unit answered. Again, I felt like we were willing to get into a street fight. We had a little lull, and we didn’t pack it up and quit. To follow up on that, was that involuntary by you, running along? Just talk about that, where you were when all that was happening?

MIKE VRABEL: I just was watching about the 50. I’m just excited for these guys. I’m really excited that they could fight and compete, come on the road, be in a game, get off to a good start, not be front runners — everything that we talked about. We tried to get the drive stops sometimes. We ended the drives with scores, with touchdowns, much better in the red zone. Offensively the only thing that stopped us today was us, so there was a lot of really good keys there.

Again, the penalties on special teams, there’s lots to coach from, but it’s going to be easier to coach from a win. We’ll be able to coach them hard and make sure we’re trying to fix the things that hurt us. We got off to a good start. Again, we knew that a lot of that was to make sure we made them earn it, and we didn’t get the drive stop on a couple of those X plays and they scored... Opening comments: "Great battle of a football game. New England made more plays than we did.

I thought our play style, I thought our guys played fast, played physical. At the end of the day, we didn't take advantage of opportunities that were presented to us. Every game is going to have those opportunities, and we have to take advantage of them. They won the turnover ratio. They won some situational stuff, and that's how this game was decided. We didn't make enough plays.

I have to find a way for myself to coach better and put ourselves in better situations to be more successful as a football team. There's too much good and not enough in those little margins. Medically, I think we are OK. Nothing really drastic coming out of the game. We just have to get better and keep moving." On the roadblocks offensively: "That's on me.

We're not doing a good enough job. We're extending some drives. We're not getting the ultimate points that we need out of that drive. Whether it be settling for a field goal from the red zone or getting stalled out across the 50-yard line, we are not doing enough good stuff. It seems like there are always a bunch of little things that come up between penalties, missed opportunities. We have to find a way to get that because I thought we moved it at a decent rate.

We just did not take advantage of the opportunities." On defending against New England's wide receivers: "New England made plays. They had one-on-one opportunities, and they made plays. Those were contested, those were challenging situations, but we have to find a way to come up with more of those on our end. That's what this game is all about. It's one-on-one opportunities throughout this game, and we have to find a way to get it done."

On the defense's slow start: "We're not starting fast enough from a defensive perspective. We have to play better. We have to have a sense of urgency out there and be ready to roll. That's a couple of weeks in a row in that scenario, and that's not the formula we want to be feeling, like we are playing behind for a little while. Again, we have to take advantage of opportunities. They come in all four quarters, and every moment is the same value from the first quarter on to the fourth quarter."

On the margins of victory being so slim: "That's what this game is. It's the NFL. The margins are really, really small, really tight. They have good players; we have good players. It's a matter of taking advantage of the opportunities that are presented. We're not getting it done.

We are not getting it done in those situations when we have opportunities. For myself, I have to figure out a way to get us there. We're close, knocking on the door, but we're not opening it. I have to find a way to get better." The culture in New England has shifted, and the man behind it all is New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel. The man who once aided in the early days of the franchise's dynasty as a player is now the architect of whatever the future may hold for them.

In doing so, it's been the little gestures that go a long way that have his squad in sync and ready to win for him every week. The Patriots have had a coaching problem over the last five years. The back end of the Belichick era is not notable. Only one winning season, confusion at the coordinator spot, and there was no quarterback at the helm to live up to the standards set out by the coach. The Jerod Mayo era was brief and easily forgettable despite many seeing the skills of Drake Maye in his rookie season and feeling a dose of foggy optimism. Vrabel's arrival showed both discipline and care for his players.

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