Head Coach Mike Vrabel 12/2: "We're not done. We're not satisfied"

Mike Vrabel (0:00)

How are we doing?

SPEAKER_2 (0:01)

How are you?

Mike Vrabel (0:02)

Where's Nicole? She was so worried about the mustache, she didn't even show up for the reveal.

SPEAKER_2 (0:06)

Oh, nice look.

SPEAKER_3 (0:10)

Did you have any superstitions about shaving the mustache?

SPEAKER_2 (0:14)

No.

SPEAKER_3 (0:14)

Did anyone in the locker room ask you to keep it?

Mike Vrabel (0:17)

No. I mean, I didn't tell them, I didn't shave in the middle of the locker room, so I don't know, but we'll find out here in a little bit.

SPEAKER_3 (0:23)

It's been well-released out that it got.

Mike Vrabel (0:26)

I just did it, so I don't know how many people saw it other than Stretch and Stacey, so we'll see. They can be back quick.

SPEAKER_3 (0:34)

Go ahead.

What did you like from Christian Hellas? It seemed like he kind of led the team and a lot of the juice that they came out with in the physicality. We heard from Stefan Diggs as well saying that you guys had to talk about aggressiveness in your plays before the end.

Mike Vrabel (0:50)

And I just felt like it had been a long week.

And, you know, with these home night games, right, we have a, let's say, Saturday, we, or excuse me, Sunday. And then we are done with them and they go to the hotel and then, you know, Monday morning meetings, and then they leave and they go home and they get some rest or whatever it is that they're going to do to prepare themselves for the game. And I just felt like I wanted to remind them that it was important to have an attacking mindset, an aggressive mindset to continue to find the joy throughout our team with each other, playing, watching each other, feeding off each other, all three units. I just think that's, they appreciate it. I think that they, you know, I've said this after the game, the strength of our wide receiver unit is in the unit. And I know that that's hard for a position, especially that position, but everybody's catching passes, everybody's catching touchdowns. They're trying to block when they don't have the ball. And I understand and I think that that, and I appreciate that. And so I remind them of that. And it can't, it's not gonna be just one guy getting 15 or 16 targets every week. I just don't think that that's what this is. And I appreciate their unselfishness. And I think that that is just a small microcosm of what I want our football team to look like and feel. And then be excited when Kyle catches a touchdown or when Kayshawn catches a touchdown or whoever it may be that gets a big third down conversion for us. So that's all we're trying to do. And Christian Ellis, I think, embodies that. He's a great teammate. His teammates care deeply about him. He cares about this football team. He's got great relationships throughout the building with his coaches and obviously with his teammates. And that's another special group, you know, the linebacker group. And Christian, Christian got us going. And again, there's nothing illegal about anything that he did. There's nothing dirty there. It's him playing football and whether it's covering kicks and he takes a lot of pride in that unit and also on defense.

SPEAKER_5 (3:00)

You have to get in the chase to go back and watch the film. How do you think the left side of the offensive line?

Mike Vrabel (3:05)

I thought that they were excited about playing. And I think that that is probably the thing that pleases me the most is that they wanted it. Ned Verderian wanted to go out there and play and compete and block and Ben fought and battled and I know he had a holding call, which I think was close. I mean, they called it, stay inside out. But I don't mean I've seen worse. There was worse yesterday, but that's what they called. And but they were excited about playing and they were prepared and they were ready to go.

So that's kind of what you have to do at this time of the year or any time in the National Football League is be ready to go. No different than Thayer Munford coming in there from Cleveland and helping us and being ready and going out there and helping us in his opportunities. And we know what happens there. You probably get more opportunities.

SPEAKER_2 (4:00)

Mike, as I can see, what allows Marcus to just see things the way he sees them?

Mike Vrabel (4:05)

Well, I think that that's a great thing for him. I think that's a great question for him. What do you see?