{"id":78100,"date":"2025-08-16T01:25:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=78100"},"modified":"2025-08-16T01:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:25:50","slug":"exclusive-mike-vrabels-blunt-message-to-patriots-after-latest-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=78100","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Mike Vrabel\u2019s blunt message to Patriots after latest practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex w-full max-w-[980px] flex-col px-4 pt-4 font-secondary lg:px-0\">\n<p class=\"dek prose mb-2.5 italic text-secondary\">Mike Vrabel was not overly pleased with the Patriots Thursday practice session against the Minnesota Vikings<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex w-full max-w-[980px] flex-row gap-5\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col lg:max-w-[660px]\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aspect-video w-full max-w-full object-contain object-center px-4 lg:px-0\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/The-Patriots-need-Drake-Maye-to-step-up-this-season.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye (10) reacts after defeating the Washington Commanders at Gillette Stadium.\" \/><\/figure>\n<article class=\"article-body prose max-w-none pb-7 pt-5 prose-figure:max-w-full prose-ol:pl-10 prose-img:max-w-full prose-video:max-w-full md:prose-ol:pl-6 [&amp;_iframe]:m-auto [&amp;_iframe]:block [&amp;_iframe]:max-w-full\">The\u00a0New England Patriots and the Minnesota Vikings have been sharing a practice field this week. The two teams have been going at it at the Vikings home facility. Dual practice sessions give teams a better opportunity to see how players are performing when they are competing against an opponent.The Patriots\u00a0have not pleased head coach\u00a0Mike Vrabel\u00a0with the team&#8217;s performance against the Vikings. In the Thursday session, there was a sequence late in the practice that saw the Patriots gave up consecutive sacks to Jonathan Allen and Dallas Turner. The next play saw rookie left tackle Will Campbell get whistled for a false start.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Mike Vrabel did not like the sequence. While\u00a0Drake Maye\u00a0was able to complete a 40-yard Hail Mary to wide receiver Kayshon Boutte for a touchdown on the next play, the way the Patriots performed on the sequence\u00a0 upset the coach quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Safety Jaylin Hawkins\u00a0explained how Vrabel reacted to his team&#8217;s performance. \u201cBasically, we got to find it and we haven&#8217;t arrived. We&#8217;ve got a lot to work toward and we have to keep on going toward that goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Patriots hoping to reverse course after three consecutive losing seasons<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3485750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3485750\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3485750\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Offensive-coordinator-Josh-McDaniels-is-trying-to-get-the-Patriots-offense-on-track.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Offensive-coordinator-Josh-McDaniels-is-trying-to-get-the-Patriots-offense-on-track.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Offensive-coordinator-Josh-McDaniels-is-trying-to-get-the-Patriots-offense-on-track.jpg?resize=300,168 300w, https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Offensive-coordinator-Josh-McDaniels-is-trying-to-get-the-Patriots-offense-on-track.jpg?resize=768,431 768w, https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Offensive-coordinator-Josh-McDaniels-is-trying-to-get-the-Patriots-offense-on-track.jpg?resize=1024,574 1024w, https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Offensive-coordinator-Josh-McDaniels-is-trying-to-get-the-Patriots-offense-on-track.jpg?resize=150,84 150w\" alt=\"New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels heads to the practice fields for training camp at Gillette Stadium. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"574\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3485750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mandatory Credit: Eric Canha-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The days when\u00a0the Patriots\u00a0were the glamour team in the NFL and the dominant team in the AFC are long over. Those days came to a conclusion when Tom Brady left to close his career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Any lingering doubt was put to bed the team parted company with head coach Bill Belichick.<\/p>\n<p>The glory years are now ancient history and now the Patriots are trying to return to respectability. Vrabel was brought in as head coach to provide the team with more discipline and determination. If he can do that, the team may have a chance to win eight or nine games this season<\/p>\n<p>He is clearly not happy with what he saw in the majority of the team&#8217;s practice against the Vikings. The Patriots will have a chance to turn it around at Friday&#8217;s practice session and in Saturday&#8217;s preseason game between the two teams at U.S. Bank Stadium.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Vrabel was not overly pleased with the Patriots Thursday practice session against the Minnesota Vikings The\u00a0New England Patriots and the Minnesota Vikings have been sharing a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Exclusive: Mike Vrabel\u2019s blunt message to Patriots after latest practice - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=78100\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Exclusive: Mike Vrabel\u2019s blunt message to Patriots after latest practice - 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