May 20, 2025 • 11 mins
Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel addresses the media on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh, I'm just curious about your early impressions of Brake
May and how he's been adapting to, you know, learning
a new system. Well, I think everybody's worked extremely hard,
including Drake, uh, to to pick up what we want
to do.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Offensively and defensively, and.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Now that has to start to translate onto the practice
field and in a spring setting without pads, and you know,
I think that it's, uh, we're off to a good start.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I think we had a positive day.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We're able to mix some speed stuff in and some
competitive stuff to a point, uh, kept guys off the ground,
got a bit du bunch of looks and bunch of reps.
So I think we're off to a good start. And
you know, Drake's a part of that.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
As part of the stage.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
What are the things that you look for from your
players to get better as they go about this stage
of the process.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, I think that that's uh, probably an interesting question
just to dynamic through the spring.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Is you know the offensive line.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I think you can maybe evaluate some pass protection or
somewhat footwork, but it's to evaluate the run game. Defensive line,
it's a difficult time of year for them, you.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Know, they're they're they're wired a.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Certain way and they want to do things that affect
the quarterback and create a new line of scrimmage, and
you have to pull them back to a sense. This
is a this is a passing camp, this is a
non contact camp and time of year.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
But I think the receivers and the dbs.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Can certainly look to to mirror and shadow and react
and you know, still go make plays on the football
and try to stay up. It's hard to you know,
maybe the running backs you can evaluate are they picking
up the right person and protection not necessarily sure if
they're going to be able to block them, but are
they getting the right guy?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Quarterbacks, operation, the urgency in which we practice are things
that are important. Our tempo, uh, the way that we
finish plays, our effort and continue to build the identity.
Are we taking care of the football when we're when
we're running with it in the open field?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Things like that.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Wanting to take guys to the ground, how do you
balance this that I would love to take guys.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
That's okay, I'm joking.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But these are the rules that everybody's just come to
live by in the National Football League, And that's that's great.
It's just explain it to the players what it is
that we have to do and what we have to
try to get accomplished. So go ahead and finish your question,
But how.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Do you accomplish the physicality that you want at this stage?
Will still making sure that I don't think that you can.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I don't I think that you could focus on pad level,
you could focus on hand placement, but that physicality is
not something that's going to be identified.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Over the course of, you know, the next four weeks.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
With the understanding that this is obviously a non contact camping,
we're talking about not being able to get a good
sense of where maybe running backs are from a physical standpoint,
and he just talked about where maybe Remandri is at
this stage. I know he's going through a personal thing,
but maybe you overall value that he has did this franchise.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
We're extremely excited to.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Have him with us, have been in constant communication with
him and obviously our thoughts and prayers with him and
his family as they heal and they grieve, and you
don't want to be a part of that.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
To to help him and get to know him, and had.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Met him early on and then he went back and
now those conversations have just been.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Over the telephone.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So when you start to evaluate just this season and
you watch the effort and that he played with when
he didn't have the football, he played extremely.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Fast without the football.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
His ability to step up and protect is taking care
of a teammate, is protecting the guy with the ball.
He did that on numerous occasions. He always saw him
downfield when he didn't have the ball.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
So he's going to be a large part of, you know,
what we do, and it'll just have to you know,
determine where he's at when when he's back here.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
What constitutes a.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Good day for you at OTA is like what what
would make you happy.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
At the end of him today.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That you know, again, I'm going to set myself up
for failure because you're going to look and read off
every single one I say here, that that we're in
and out of the huddle, that there's clean substitution, that
there's communication, you hear the defense making checks when somebody
on the offense moves or motions, there's coordination, and that
the offense is moving with urgency, and that the play
clock isn't sitting at zero for four seconds and all
(04:15):
the operational things, and then obviously there's got to be
a level of execution when we're in the speed and
then when we get to the jog through. Can we
practice at a tempo that's less than one hundred percent
and still get something out of it? Mike, what does
the competition truly starting from traditional standpoint for guys trying
to ren spots, Well.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I think that it already has. I hope that it
already has their life's of competition.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Everything we do every day, what we're trying to improve
and we're trying to do better than the next person.
But whether that's a competitiveness to know what to do,
to be able to to play more than one position,
to go extra reps when somebody's down, to take advantage
of opportunities young guys, you know, popping in their third group.
(04:58):
You know, they do a nice job, then they get elevated,
they get some reps with the twos.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And see how they do with those opportunities.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So I think that there's always a level of competition
to what we do. It just may not be as
physical as what it would be in training camp.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Question how much evaluation is going on for the coaching
staff right now? Versus the installation of the teaching that
obviously you're doing the spring.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Well, there's certain things you have to maybe change the
way that you evaluate, you know, do they know their assignment,
can they adjust? Do they make you know, the same
mistake over and over. Then there's a level of you know,
physical ability that we have to be able to evaluate.
So I would say that there's still an evaluation even
(05:40):
though we don't have pads.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
On the culture you're building.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And all that. Just from early days of the team
kind of all being together. What are you noticing just
from them all coming together?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I think there's an excitement, there's an energy. I think
there's a willingness of players that walk in and want
to improve and want to get to know the new
players and the ones that they're familiar with from last
year and the coaches and everything else.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So we're just constantly trying to build that each and
every day.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Diggs has been, you know, dealing with last year's injury,
anyone else that we shouldn't expect to see based on
coming back.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
From something from last year.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
There'll be a group of guys that will be modified
today or won't be doing stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So I mean it's a long list, not going to
go through it, but there'll be a few guys.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
They'll be doing some individual they'll be doing some return
to play, may do some jog through stuff at the end.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Like I know that.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Like, how would you describe the jump for running back
and pass protection from the college game to the NFL
Helm important? Are these practices for trayveon in particular as
young becks.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well, these are mental reps.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
These are seeing things at speed until you know it's
full speed to.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Contact, is really what we say.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
So we want the blitzer to go, you know, as
fast as he would and disguise the way he would
and try to time it up the way that he would, uh,
and then once he gets to the player that's blocking him,
that that we're going to ask them to stop and
then you know, be ready to go and sprint out
of the stack and get his you know, finish his
play that way. So they're they're good because there's disguises,
(07:09):
there's moving parts, there's other bodies. It's not just a
walk through pace. So I think the tempo is going
to allow him to identify the right person to to
to protect and to block and then we'll see you
in training camp physically they'll be able to do it,
which by all counts, I think that they will get.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Excited about it when the NFL schedule comes out. How
do you look at that from as a head coach?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I just make sure that we've got seventeen games, nine
of them are at home this year and eight of
them are on the.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Road, and then we go from there.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
We're so far from from looking at opponents right now
at this point in the game. We're just really trying
to focus on ourselves, which you know, individual improvement, continue
to build the identity that we try to talk about,
and that's where my focus is today.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Joy practices with the Commanders and Biking.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I think that the for sure that the Washington Commanders
will come here and then they'll play us, and then
we are excited to go to Minnesota. It's a good
setup that they have allows for great work. Kevin's got
a you know, the Vikings have an excellent football team
and have worked with them before, so excited to go
back up there. Like you see the young player, you
need to see the field consistently or first team grabs
(08:23):
consistently to become the effective leader in your lovely no
I think that any player that comes here with a
great attitude, that knows what to do UH and plays
a style and with the demeanor that we expect, that
does things the right way, that makes great decisions, we'll
have an ability to lead uh someone or have some
sort of leadership qualities, whether that's with the third group,
(08:47):
with the.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Second group, or with the first group.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
But I don't think that a young player has to
be on a starting unit to be considered somewhat of
a leader. Then over analyized line at this point of
the season philosophy when it comes to the depth chart,
is it veterans and then you earn it or it's
just kind of what we put together and somebody's got
to go with eleven.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It's gonna be very fluid.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You'll see that a lot of people are getting a
lot of different reps and a lot of different groupings,
and wide receivers will rotate out of there, and some
lineman will play a position and then we'll see if
they can move over and play another position. So again,
you have.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
A job to do. We have a job to do.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
We're gonna try to move guys around and and put
eleven out there.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Every play a.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Story about how you enjoy getting called out by you.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That's first of all, that's not being called out by me.
That was just an encouragement. No, it was, uh, you know,
if you have the ability to do something, I think
you should try to maximize that ability. And I think
it sends a great message to the team where we're
gonna need our best players to play good every week
for us to win. And that's just another example of,
(09:58):
you know, the leadership and when one guy I found
when one guy runs fast and other guys tend to
run fast, and then the next you know, the more
and more you see, you got a bunch of guys
trying to push each other and compete.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And that's what we're trying to do with specifically, what
are you looking for? It's a very full room at
the moment.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
What are you looking for specifically with them in these
early days? Well as far, I think that when you
say things like it's a full room, I would say
that thirty one other teams, that's okay with thirty one.
Other teams are going to have eleven or twelve wide
receivers at this point in time, so everybody's room is full.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
There's eleven or twelve.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I would say that the players that aren't available need
to make sure that they're doing everything they can to
stay up mentally and continue to work hard to get back.
The young players that are coming onto this roster have
to earn a role, and the ones that are returning
have a clean slate to go and compete, and whether
that's a carryover position from last year or a new position.
(10:54):
So we're very early on in the process, but we
need that group to to compete and have a willingness
to go out there and help the quarterback through this
spring process.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Thank you.
Uh, I'm just curious about your early impressions of Brake
May and how he's been adapting to, you know, learning
a new system. Well, I think everybody's worked extremely hard,
including Drake, uh, to to pick up what we want
to do.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Offensively and defensively, and.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Now that has to start to translate onto the practice
field and in a spring setting without pads, and you know,
I think that it's, uh, we're off to a good start.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I think we had a positive day.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We're able to mix some speed stuff in and some
competitive stuff to a point, uh, kept guys off the ground,
got a bit du bunch of looks and bunch of reps.
So I think we're off to a good start. And
you know, Drake's a part of that.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
As part of the stage.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
What are the things that you look for from your
players to get better as they go about this stage
of the process.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, I think that that's uh, probably an interesting question
just to dynamic through the spring.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Is you know the offensive line.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I think you can maybe evaluate some pass protection or
somewhat footwork, but it's to evaluate the run game. Defensive line,
it's a difficult time of year for them, you.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Know, they're they're they're wired a.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Certain way and they want to do things that affect
the quarterback and create a new line of scrimmage, and
you have to pull them back to a sense. This
is a this is a passing camp, this is a
non contact camp and time of year.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
But I think the receivers and the dbs.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Can certainly look to to mirror and shadow and react
and you know, still go make plays on the football
and try to stay up. It's hard to you know,
maybe the running backs you can evaluate are they picking
up the right person and protection not necessarily sure if
they're going to be able to block them, but are
they getting the right guy?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Quarterbacks, operation, the urgency in which we practice are things
that are important. Our tempo, uh, the way that we
finish plays, our effort and continue to build the identity.
Are we taking care of the football when we're when
we're running with it in the open field?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Things like that.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Wanting to take guys to the ground, how do you
balance this that I would love to take guys.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
That's okay, I'm joking.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But these are the rules that everybody's just come to
live by in the National Football League, And that's that's great.
It's just explain it to the players what it is
that we have to do and what we have to
try to get accomplished. So go ahead and finish your question,
But how.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Do you accomplish the physicality that you want at this stage?
Will still making sure that I don't think that you can.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I don't I think that you could focus on pad level,
you could focus on hand placement, but that physicality is
not something that's going to be identified.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Over the course of, you know, the next four weeks.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
With the understanding that this is obviously a non contact camping,
we're talking about not being able to get a good
sense of where maybe running backs are from a physical standpoint,
and he just talked about where maybe Remandri is at
this stage. I know he's going through a personal thing,
but maybe you overall value that he has did this franchise.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
We're extremely excited to.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Have him with us, have been in constant communication with
him and obviously our thoughts and prayers with him and
his family as they heal and they grieve, and you
don't want to be a part of that.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
To to help him and get to know him, and had.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Met him early on and then he went back and
now those conversations have just been.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Over the telephone.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So when you start to evaluate just this season and
you watch the effort and that he played with when
he didn't have the football, he played extremely.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Fast without the football.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
His ability to step up and protect is taking care
of a teammate, is protecting the guy with the ball.
He did that on numerous occasions. He always saw him
downfield when he didn't have the ball.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
So he's going to be a large part of, you know,
what we do, and it'll just have to you know,
determine where he's at when when he's back here.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
What constitutes a.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Good day for you at OTA is like what what
would make you happy.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
At the end of him today.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That you know, again, I'm going to set myself up
for failure because you're going to look and read off
every single one I say here, that that we're in
and out of the huddle, that there's clean substitution, that
there's communication, you hear the defense making checks when somebody
on the offense moves or motions, there's coordination, and that
the offense is moving with urgency, and that the play
clock isn't sitting at zero for four seconds and all
(04:15):
the operational things, and then obviously there's got to be
a level of execution when we're in the speed and
then when we get to the jog through. Can we
practice at a tempo that's less than one hundred percent
and still get something out of it? Mike, what does
the competition truly starting from traditional standpoint for guys trying
to ren spots, Well.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I think that it already has. I hope that it
already has their life's of competition.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Everything we do every day, what we're trying to improve
and we're trying to do better than the next person.
But whether that's a competitiveness to know what to do,
to be able to to play more than one position,
to go extra reps when somebody's down, to take advantage
of opportunities young guys, you know, popping in their third group.
(04:58):
You know, they do a nice job, then they get elevated,
they get some reps with the twos.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And see how they do with those opportunities.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So I think that there's always a level of competition
to what we do. It just may not be as
physical as what it would be in training camp.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Question how much evaluation is going on for the coaching
staff right now? Versus the installation of the teaching that
obviously you're doing the spring.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Well, there's certain things you have to maybe change the
way that you evaluate, you know, do they know their assignment,
can they adjust? Do they make you know, the same
mistake over and over. Then there's a level of you know,
physical ability that we have to be able to evaluate.
So I would say that there's still an evaluation even
(05:40):
though we don't have pads.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
On the culture you're building.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And all that. Just from early days of the team
kind of all being together. What are you noticing just
from them all coming together?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I think there's an excitement, there's an energy. I think
there's a willingness of players that walk in and want
to improve and want to get to know the new
players and the ones that they're familiar with from last
year and the coaches and everything else.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So we're just constantly trying to build that each and
every day.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Diggs has been, you know, dealing with last year's injury,
anyone else that we shouldn't expect to see based on
coming back.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
From something from last year.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
There'll be a group of guys that will be modified
today or won't be doing stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So I mean it's a long list, not going to
go through it, but there'll be a few guys.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
They'll be doing some individual they'll be doing some return
to play, may do some jog through stuff at the end.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Like I know that.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Like, how would you describe the jump for running back
and pass protection from the college game to the NFL
Helm important? Are these practices for trayveon in particular as
young becks.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well, these are mental reps.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
These are seeing things at speed until you know it's
full speed to.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Contact, is really what we say.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
So we want the blitzer to go, you know, as
fast as he would and disguise the way he would
and try to time it up the way that he would, uh,
and then once he gets to the player that's blocking him,
that that we're going to ask them to stop and
then you know, be ready to go and sprint out
of the stack and get his you know, finish his
play that way. So they're they're good because there's disguises,
(07:09):
there's moving parts, there's other bodies. It's not just a
walk through pace. So I think the tempo is going
to allow him to identify the right person to to
to protect and to block and then we'll see you
in training camp physically they'll be able to do it,
which by all counts, I think that they will get.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Excited about it when the NFL schedule comes out. How
do you look at that from as a head coach?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I just make sure that we've got seventeen games, nine
of them are at home this year and eight of
them are on the.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Road, and then we go from there.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
We're so far from from looking at opponents right now
at this point in the game. We're just really trying
to focus on ourselves, which you know, individual improvement, continue
to build the identity that we try to talk about,
and that's where my focus is today.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Joy practices with the Commanders and Biking.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I think that the for sure that the Washington Commanders
will come here and then they'll play us, and then
we are excited to go to Minnesota. It's a good
setup that they have allows for great work. Kevin's got
a you know, the Vikings have an excellent football team
and have worked with them before, so excited to go
back up there. Like you see the young player, you
need to see the field consistently or first team grabs
(08:23):
consistently to become the effective leader in your lovely no
I think that any player that comes here with a
great attitude, that knows what to do UH and plays
a style and with the demeanor that we expect, that
does things the right way, that makes great decisions, we'll
have an ability to lead uh someone or have some
sort of leadership qualities, whether that's with the third group,
(08:47):
with the.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Second group, or with the first group.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
But I don't think that a young player has to
be on a starting unit to be considered somewhat of
a leader. Then over analyized line at this point of
the season philosophy when it comes to the depth chart,
is it veterans and then you earn it or it's
just kind of what we put together and somebody's got
to go with eleven.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It's gonna be very fluid.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You'll see that a lot of people are getting a
lot of different reps and a lot of different groupings,
and wide receivers will rotate out of there, and some
lineman will play a position and then we'll see if
they can move over and play another position. So again,
you have.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
A job to do. We have a job to do.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
We're gonna try to move guys around and and put
eleven out there.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Every play a.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Story about how you enjoy getting called out by you.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That's first of all, that's not being called out by me.
That was just an encouragement. No, it was, uh, you know,
if you have the ability to do something, I think
you should try to maximize that ability. And I think
it sends a great message to the team where we're
gonna need our best players to play good every week
for us to win. And that's just another example of,
(09:58):
you know, the leadership and when one guy I found
when one guy runs fast and other guys tend to
run fast, and then the next you know, the more
and more you see, you got a bunch of guys
trying to push each other and compete.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And that's what we're trying to do with specifically, what
are you looking for? It's a very full room at
the moment.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
What are you looking for specifically with them in these
early days? Well as far, I think that when you
say things like it's a full room, I would say
that thirty one other teams, that's okay with thirty one.
Other teams are going to have eleven or twelve wide
receivers at this point in time, so everybody's room is full.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
There's eleven or twelve.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I would say that the players that aren't available need
to make sure that they're doing everything they can to
stay up mentally and continue to work hard to get back.
The young players that are coming onto this roster have
to earn a role, and the ones that are returning
have a clean slate to go and compete, and whether
that's a carryover position from last year or a new position.
(10:54):
So we're very early on in the process, but we
need that group to to compete and have a willingness
to go out there and help the quarterback through this
spring process.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Thank you.
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