August 10, 2025 • 9 mins
Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel addresses the media on Sunday, August 10, 2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Happy Sunday.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Can you players are coming out here, but can you
give us an update on Christian guns Hols's status.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Might we see him in Minnesota or at all this week?
Or you might see him in Minnesota. Polk got hurt.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I won't see Jayleen Polk in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
You'll see him in Minnesota. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Now, before you think I'm being funny, You'll probably see
Christian in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
You won't see him on the field, probably in a uniform.
See how I did that.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You'll see him in Minnesota, but he probably won't be
practicing this week.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Because if I did it, then it would be like, oh,
he's yeah. But anyways, I wanted to clarify that cancer. Mike,
you get two weeks to cut down town.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I'm just curious if you know there are any players
that are not going to be on your school, would
you have a tendency to cut them early so they
could possibly pick up another team.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I think we're so far away from that.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I me personally, I'm focused on just having another great
day and continuing everything that we did on Friday, And
as you could see, everybody that you know was healthy
played in the game and gave those guys opportunities, and
whether it was John Giles or you know, Webby the
offensive lineman, some of those guys that we talked about
(01:27):
that didn't get to play or practice against Washington really
did themselves well when they were given the opportunity. And
so I want to continue to reward those players that
that treat the team well and treat them the same
way they treat the team. So as long as they're
here working and getting better, you know, we're we're going
to practice.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Them or eventually, you know, get them action in the game.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
After looking at the team, anything specific standouts you from
Friday that you didn't see during the game.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And I think I thought we played yuh to continue
to build the identity of playing with great effort and
you know, trying to take care of the guy with
the ball. We had to tackle better, you know, and
that happened sometimes in the first live action. A lot
of good stuff to teach off of their continue to
talk about the ball security, whether it came out or not,
the opportunities where we feel like the ball is in jeopardy.
(02:23):
You know, I thought we ran it well. I thought,
you know, we took advantage. I thought we played a
clean game. I thought we took advantage of the field position,
won that battle. And you know, I saw the kickoff
returns or how explosive that play can be, and we're
going to have to cover those same kicks this year.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So did a lot of those good things.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And then we just have to continue to improve the
things that we talked about with the mistackles or you know,
getting getting into a rhythm with the passing game, and
you know, kind of just continue to progress, just coming
off the bushes in the and anly joined proctices.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Coming up, we'll be in the red zone. You know,
we know how critical that is.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
You know, we were you know, we we didn't get
a stop defensively in the red zone. We did, you know,
a nice job offensively in the red zone, but defensively
it wasn't wasn't very good. So again, we like coming
off these days off in the red zone. Shorter space,
uh for the players, but it's still a critical area
where you need precision and speed.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's just not maybe long speed.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So I couldn't hear is one of the players I'm
just curious to feels still good about the path that he's.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
On right now.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, yep, and anticipate him to practice today and be
in Minnesota as well.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
The kickoff return that Henderson took back ponders in there
and looked like he had one of the blocks that helped.
I want to ask you about him one, what are
you seen from him in camp? And then maybe the
block if that stood out to you as a good play.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Sure, Uh, yeah, No, Elijah continues to improve, and I
think that that the ability to play on special teams
as an outside linebacker who probably in college they don't
get a whole lot of work at UH is something
that that you're always trying to build and develop because
it is new for some of these guys. On that
(04:25):
particular play, you know, it's it's at the point of
attack and it's a big block, and you know there's
going to be a lot of these that that are close.
And when I say close, I mean close to to
a penalty and close to a touchdown, and we have
to coach the heck out of it. We have to
make great decisions, split second decisions when you're at the
point of attack, because when they start to see that,
(04:47):
and then you know, we just have to stay square
and and the backs have to help us by setting
some of these things up, and you know, because the
alternative is now you're starting inside the twenty yard line
and defeat the whole purpose of taking advantage of the
field position.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So there was a lot of good blocks there.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You know, we'll have to see where the trends start
to go on the penalties and the more kickoffs are
going to be, the more penalties you would imagine, and
just see what the league wants to do there. When
you watched the film back when the quarterbacks ran in
the game, you think they had chances to throw them,
would you rather than take advantage of those opportunities for
pricing things in the game than run.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I mean, one was from the five, one was from
the two.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I don't think Josh was doing anything but trying to
not get hit and happened to find the end zone.
Drake I thought made two good decisions when he went
up into the to the B gap, got the first down.
Probably could have been a little muddy, I guess if
you're nitpicking to Mac collins, but you know, I don't
think he was, you know, putting harm's way to where
(05:57):
he went. So you know, I saw Mac break and
again when you have the football in your hand. We
trust you to make great decisions. So, I mean, I
don't know if there were any other opportunities. You know,
we had a couple moved the pocket plays and you know,
found Jaheima on one which was a nice catch and run,
(06:18):
and then you know, I think found chiz on the
other one.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Those are ones. I don't know which ones you're specifically
referring to.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I think that the way that he went, I think
it would have been hard for him to remain a
passer to the left side, just physically. I mean again,
we once you start to scramble, and again you'll see
some of these scrambled joels hopefully today in the red zone,
but we would like him to be able to shut
off half the field. You start looking back here, bad
things kind of happen. So to me, I think he
(06:57):
was going to the right. I think he saw soft coverage,
uh and trusted in his ability to be able to
go and pick up the first down.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Marcus Bryant so far in this camp and just sort
of to start there on Friday night what fled to
that Musiu?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I think he earned it.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I think that when they switched over and he had
some snaps on the left a lot of the.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Beginning of training camp.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I think moving him over to the right, I thought
he did well, especially in the joint practices, earned that
opportunity and continues to improve.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
We'll have to play both sides for us.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And I think he's just a young player that has
taken the coaching and was one of the players I
remember when we first put pads on, had had a.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Really high pad level. Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
We we talked about it, we coached it, we showed him,
and I think that has improved him. And he's six
foot six, so first day, I guess we'll cut him
some slack and it's improved. And that's all we ask
of the players is that each day they they continue
to improve and and and focus on improving. So uh,
kind of like Marcus and you know it just it's
(08:01):
kind of a happy, lucky, go go kid, and I
think there's a lot of good football in front of them.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
The joint practice. Just wanted to get your take on
what happened to the scrum there and do you have
any fun with the film review with the team.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I didn't show the team.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I'm sure they all looked at it obviously in their
meeting rooms because guys were laughing at me, and but
I realized that you know, you know, Will and I
were thinking the same thing, just trying to you know,
get get the second guy off, you know, and Travian
and in a restaurant. I just don't want any thing
to happen to anybody, you know. I mean, my job
is to try to to break those up, and I
(08:38):
don't mind doing it. And that's kind of how it went.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
You have a quarterback like Drink who has a unique
ability to extend plays.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
What's the teaching process and he has this unique ability
wanted to play to that versus sometimes knowing when to
go down or just look to another day. Yeah, we
we have to be able to to protect ourselves as
the quarterback of the football team, you know, at the
yard markers, at the sideline, near the line to gain,
and especially the goal line. And you know, I just
(09:08):
think the biggest thing is, you know, just don't assume,
try to use the rules to your advantage and being.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Able to slide.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And you know, whether you go feed first or whether
you go head first, you're still protected. And again we
want them to be aggressive, but just not reckless and put.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
The ball or himself in harm's way. Thank you, I
appreciate
Happy Sunday.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Can you players are coming out here, but can you
give us an update on Christian guns Hols's status.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Might we see him in Minnesota or at all this week?
Or you might see him in Minnesota. Polk got hurt.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I won't see Jayleen Polk in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
You'll see him in Minnesota. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Now, before you think I'm being funny, You'll probably see
Christian in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
You won't see him on the field, probably in a uniform.
See how I did that.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You'll see him in Minnesota, but he probably won't be
practicing this week.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Because if I did it, then it would be like, oh,
he's yeah. But anyways, I wanted to clarify that cancer. Mike,
you get two weeks to cut down town.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I'm just curious if you know there are any players
that are not going to be on your school, would
you have a tendency to cut them early so they
could possibly pick up another team.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I think we're so far away from that.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I me personally, I'm focused on just having another great
day and continuing everything that we did on Friday, And
as you could see, everybody that you know was healthy
played in the game and gave those guys opportunities, and
whether it was John Giles or you know, Webby the
offensive lineman, some of those guys that we talked about
(01:27):
that didn't get to play or practice against Washington really
did themselves well when they were given the opportunity. And
so I want to continue to reward those players that
that treat the team well and treat them the same
way they treat the team. So as long as they're
here working and getting better, you know, we're we're going
to practice.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Them or eventually, you know, get them action in the game.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
After looking at the team, anything specific standouts you from
Friday that you didn't see during the game.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And I think I thought we played yuh to continue
to build the identity of playing with great effort and
you know, trying to take care of the guy with
the ball. We had to tackle better, you know, and
that happened sometimes in the first live action. A lot
of good stuff to teach off of their continue to
talk about the ball security, whether it came out or not,
the opportunities where we feel like the ball is in jeopardy.
(02:23):
You know, I thought we ran it well. I thought,
you know, we took advantage. I thought we played a
clean game. I thought we took advantage of the field position,
won that battle. And you know, I saw the kickoff
returns or how explosive that play can be, and we're
going to have to cover those same kicks this year.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So did a lot of those good things.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And then we just have to continue to improve the
things that we talked about with the mistackles or you know,
getting getting into a rhythm with the passing game, and
you know, kind of just continue to progress, just coming
off the bushes in the and anly joined proctices.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Coming up, we'll be in the red zone. You know,
we know how critical that is.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
You know, we were you know, we we didn't get
a stop defensively in the red zone. We did, you know,
a nice job offensively in the red zone, but defensively
it wasn't wasn't very good. So again, we like coming
off these days off in the red zone. Shorter space,
uh for the players, but it's still a critical area
where you need precision and speed.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's just not maybe long speed.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So I couldn't hear is one of the players I'm
just curious to feels still good about the path that he's.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
On right now.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, yep, and anticipate him to practice today and be
in Minnesota as well.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
The kickoff return that Henderson took back ponders in there
and looked like he had one of the blocks that helped.
I want to ask you about him one, what are
you seen from him in camp? And then maybe the
block if that stood out to you as a good play.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Sure, Uh, yeah, No, Elijah continues to improve, and I
think that that the ability to play on special teams
as an outside linebacker who probably in college they don't
get a whole lot of work at UH is something
that that you're always trying to build and develop because
it is new for some of these guys. On that
(04:25):
particular play, you know, it's it's at the point of
attack and it's a big block, and you know there's
going to be a lot of these that that are close.
And when I say close, I mean close to to
a penalty and close to a touchdown, and we have
to coach the heck out of it. We have to
make great decisions, split second decisions when you're at the
point of attack, because when they start to see that,
(04:47):
and then you know, we just have to stay square
and and the backs have to help us by setting
some of these things up, and you know, because the
alternative is now you're starting inside the twenty yard line
and defeat the whole purpose of taking advantage of the
field position.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So there was a lot of good blocks there.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You know, we'll have to see where the trends start
to go on the penalties and the more kickoffs are
going to be, the more penalties you would imagine, and
just see what the league wants to do there. When
you watched the film back when the quarterbacks ran in
the game, you think they had chances to throw them,
would you rather than take advantage of those opportunities for
pricing things in the game than run.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I mean, one was from the five, one was from
the two.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I don't think Josh was doing anything but trying to
not get hit and happened to find the end zone.
Drake I thought made two good decisions when he went
up into the to the B gap, got the first down.
Probably could have been a little muddy, I guess if
you're nitpicking to Mac collins, but you know, I don't
think he was, you know, putting harm's way to where
(05:57):
he went. So you know, I saw Mac break and
again when you have the football in your hand. We
trust you to make great decisions. So, I mean, I
don't know if there were any other opportunities. You know,
we had a couple moved the pocket plays and you know,
found Jaheima on one which was a nice catch and run,
(06:18):
and then you know, I think found chiz on the
other one.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Those are ones. I don't know which ones you're specifically
referring to.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I think that the way that he went, I think
it would have been hard for him to remain a
passer to the left side, just physically. I mean again,
we once you start to scramble, and again you'll see
some of these scrambled joels hopefully today in the red zone,
but we would like him to be able to shut
off half the field. You start looking back here, bad
things kind of happen. So to me, I think he
(06:57):
was going to the right. I think he saw soft coverage,
uh and trusted in his ability to be able to
go and pick up the first down.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Marcus Bryant so far in this camp and just sort
of to start there on Friday night what fled to
that Musiu?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I think he earned it.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I think that when they switched over and he had
some snaps on the left a lot of the.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Beginning of training camp.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I think moving him over to the right, I thought
he did well, especially in the joint practices, earned that
opportunity and continues to improve.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
We'll have to play both sides for us.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And I think he's just a young player that has
taken the coaching and was one of the players I
remember when we first put pads on, had had a.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Really high pad level. Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
We we talked about it, we coached it, we showed him,
and I think that has improved him. And he's six
foot six, so first day, I guess we'll cut him
some slack and it's improved. And that's all we ask
of the players is that each day they they continue
to improve and and and focus on improving. So uh,
kind of like Marcus and you know it just it's
(08:01):
kind of a happy, lucky, go go kid, and I
think there's a lot of good football in front of them.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
The joint practice. Just wanted to get your take on
what happened to the scrum there and do you have
any fun with the film review with the team.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I didn't show the team.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I'm sure they all looked at it obviously in their
meeting rooms because guys were laughing at me, and but
I realized that you know, you know, Will and I
were thinking the same thing, just trying to you know,
get get the second guy off, you know, and Travian
and in a restaurant. I just don't want any thing
to happen to anybody, you know. I mean, my job
is to try to to break those up, and I
(08:38):
don't mind doing it. And that's kind of how it went.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
You have a quarterback like Drink who has a unique
ability to extend plays.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
What's the teaching process and he has this unique ability
wanted to play to that versus sometimes knowing when to
go down or just look to another day. Yeah, we
we have to be able to to protect ourselves as
the quarterback of the football team, you know, at the
yard markers, at the sideline, near the line to gain,
and especially the goal line. And you know, I just
(09:08):
think the biggest thing is, you know, just don't assume,
try to use the rules to your advantage and being.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Able to slide.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And you know, whether you go feed first or whether
you go head first, you're still protected. And again we
want them to be aggressive, but just not reckless and put.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
The ball or himself in harm's way. Thank you, I
appreciate
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