Jones & Keefe: The Mike Vrabel era is off to an underwhelming start

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00:00I did not expect the Patriots to play like jackasses for three straight weeks under Vrabel.

00:05Like, I was pretty annoyed after week one.

00:08We came in after the Raiders lost and we're like,

00:10What was that?

00:11He's not Mayo.

00:12Vrabel's not Mayo, but...

00:14Yeah, but...

00:15That looked a lot like a Gerard Mayo game.

00:17Yeah.

00:18That was the takeaway when we came in after week one.

00:20Now, after three weeks, I'm like,

00:23He's not Mayo, but...

00:25Or...

00:26He's a lot closer to Mayo than I thought.

00:28A lot closer to Mayo than I thought.

00:30You're at the...

00:30He's not Mayo, but I'm at the...

00:33He's not Mayo.

00:34Or...

00:34Is he?

00:36Yeah.

00:37Well, look.

00:39Keith, we heard...

00:40Maybe it's an introductory press conference or an early press conference.

00:43You're like, Boy, there were some Mayo-esque moments in there.

00:46A lot of people were like, He's just like Bill.

00:49Look at him.

00:49Look at the way he handles the media.

00:51He's just like Bill.

00:52Nah, it turns out he's kind of like Mayo.

00:53I had a different impression of him.

00:55I thought, because just from afar, you would hear some of his clips.

00:59You know, if they were playing the Patriots, you'd obviously hear a lot about it that week

01:02and in postgame.

01:03But just as a general NFL fan, and you're like, Hey, it's Mike Vrabel.

01:06You'd hear a lot of his interviews or...

01:09I guess kind of highlight reel, little sizzle reels.

01:11And I'm like, I like his sarcasm.

01:12I think he's pretty funny.

01:13He's both kind of a hard-ass, but also has like a sense of humor.

01:16I'm like, I like the guy's personality.

01:18So then when he got here, I think I was expecting something a little different.

01:23He stepped in it more than I would have guessed.

01:26All offseason, or preseason, I guess, we were talking about certain things that he was asked

01:32about that he kind of offered up these strange comments.

01:36The Christian Gonzalez contract thing is a big one.

01:38I mean, that one still...

01:39That's a big one.

01:40That's still...

01:41That was eight weeks ago?

01:41That still comes up.

01:43Right.

01:43Like constantly, that still comes up.

01:44Bizarre.

01:45And that was his own doing.

01:46Even some of the back and forth with Steph Diggs was kind of strange.

01:50And whether he was going to play...

01:50Phil, you stupid idiot.

01:52Where'd you go to school, Phil, you moron?

01:54He's like, okay.

01:55So there's been a few things along the way.

01:58The McDaniels stuff.

01:59The McDaniels plate stuff.

02:00Is there too much on Drake's plate?

02:03No, there's not too much on him.

02:04Yeah.

02:04So there was a lot of weird stuff.

02:06And then you're like, all right, how much of that matters?

02:10I mean, like, let's see what it looks like on the field.

02:11Okay, great.

02:12Because, like, there's one thing like how you handle your players in the media and stuff

02:16off the field.

02:16Then there's the on the field.

02:17Well, the on the field hasn't been very good.

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