{"id":89757,"date":"2025-09-08T08:42:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=89757"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:43:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:43:58","slug":"mike-vrabel-on-drake-maye-will-campbell-in-patriots-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=89757","title":{"rendered":"Mike Vrabel On Drake Maye, Will Campbell In Patriots Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-2044286\"><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/G0Rb3i6WkAAa2JD.jpg:large\" alt=\"Dan Kelley on X: &quot;Most discouraging aspects of today's #Patriots loss (to me) \u2014 \ud83c\udfc8 Unimpressive start to the Mike Vrabel Era \ud83c\udfc8 Drake Maye played poorly \ud83c\udfc8 Will Campbell really struggled\" \/>There\u2019s a consensus among the New England Patriots: Everyone could have done better Sunday.The Patriots fell 20-13 to the Las Vegas Raiders at Gillette Stadium in the season opener. New England was firmly in control in the first half, despite leading just 10-7 at the break. However, they unraveled in the second half by giving up 13 unanswered points.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t altogether surprising that a Patriots team with an overhauled coaching staff and roster had a bumpy start.<\/p>\n<p>One of those new additions was 2025 No. 4 overall pick Will Campbell, who made his first NFL start Sunday at left tackle. He was among those with a forgettable second half, giving up a pair of sacks and getting whistled for a backbreaking false start on a 4th-and-5.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Mike Vrabel was asked about Campbell\u2019s debut after the game.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s tough right now. I apologize, I\u2019ve got to look at the tape,\u201d Vrabel said, via a team-provided transcript. \u201cAgain, I\u2019m sure there\u2019s going to be some good plays, some plays we\u2019d like to have back, that he would like to have back. I think that would go for pretty much everybody. I think there was some good football, just certainly not consistent enough in all three phases. That\u2019s kind of what it looked like for me, and I\u2019ll try to give you a little better answer after looking at the tape.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Maye finished 30-of-46 for 287 yards in the air with one touchdown and one interception. Though Vrabel said he\u2019d also need to refer to the tape on Maye, he was able to offer more of an initial analysis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, without looking at the tape, I thought there were some good positive plays and really good command of what we were doing, and then there were times where maybe we or he missed somebody, and we\u2019ll have to see,\u201d Vrabel said. \u201cIt\u2019s a challenge playing quarterback in this league. We\u2019ve got to help him out. We have to be more balanced. We have to use our run actions and be able to run the football.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to turn it into a drop-back passing game in this league. That\u2019s just the facts. When they\u2019re up two scores and they\u2019re in their 3rd down package, we just don\u2019t want to ever live in that world. We all can be better, whether that\u2019s me, the coaching staff, Drake, Will and everybody that you asked about, that\u2019s the attitude that we\u2019re going to take. That\u2019s the belief that we\u2019re going to take. We\u2019re disappointed, but we can\u2019t sit there and hold on to it too long. We\u2019ve got to go on the road and we\u2019ve got to play a division opponent, and we\u2019ve got to embrace moving on. I think that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to try to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Vrabel offered his instant reaction to the play of Drake Maye and Will Campbell in the Patriots&#8217; Week 1 loss to the Raiders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":89759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89757","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>Mike Vrabel On Drake Maye, Will Campbell In Patriots Opener - 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=89757\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mike Vrabel On Drake Maye, Will Campbell In Patriots Opener - 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