Head Coach Mike Vrabel on WEEI 1/27: "We've enjoyed this thing and we're going to continue to enjoy it"

Mike Vrabel (0:00)

Hey, good morning, Coach.

Greg Hill (0:01)

Great to see you.

Mike Vrabel (0:02)

Great to see you, too.

Greg Hill (0:03)

And we got shots and blueberries.

Mike Vrabel (0:05)

Cheers.

Greg Hill (0:05)

Congratulations. Victory shot Tuesday, one more to go here. I'm always asked, because there are some that attempt to do them with us while listening or watching on Twitch, and that is the Pure Green Wake Me Up Shot, which you introduced to us, like week three or four or five or whatever it was, and here we are.

Mike Vrabel (0:29)

We needed something.

SPEAKER_3 (0:30)

We needed something to wake us up.

Greg Hill (0:32)

We needed something. How bad?

SPEAKER_3 (0:34)

We need some low tea.

Greg Hill (0:35)

We need some low tea. He's fixed now.

SPEAKER_5 (0:39)

Yeah, Northeast Meads Health.

Greg Hill (0:41)

Northeast Meads Health, two shots so far.

Mike Vrabel (0:44)

Could you imagine if I had two shots? I'd still be playing.

Greg Hill (0:48)

I mean, I've heard, I don't know, I like getting you on because I never know how accurate the reporting is, but is it accurate?

Mike Vrabel (0:54)

Not very.

Greg Hill (0:54)

Post game, you chugged Miller Lite and then you Mount Crushmort it. Is that accurate?

Mike Vrabel (1:01)

I was just walking by, Morgan handed me something, I trusted him, and then I just put it right in Will's face, just having fun.

Greg Hill (1:07)

Okay. Did you crush the can off the head or? No, not on this face.

SPEAKER_4 (1:14)

Everyone make a buzz?

Greg Hill (1:15)

Now, everyone make buzz.

SPEAKER_3 (1:16)

There you go.

Greg Hill (1:17)

That's really issues.

SPEAKER_5 (1:18)

There you go.

Mike Vrabel (1:20)

Walked on at eight o'clock and everybody was there.

SPEAKER_5 (1:22)

Good job.

Greg Hill (1:23)

From a weather perspective, a ton of stuff to talk about when it comes to that game, and obviously the next one. But from a weather perspective, they were saying broadcast wise that we couldn't even tell how bad it was, but it got really bad.

Mike Vrabel (1:36)

The wind was a factor. And then it was kind of like a wet snow, somewhere out here. The field was actually, it kind of started to freeze on top. You could see Ramandre kind of slipped there. So the footing was interesting. And again, those are just things that you have to be ready for and try to plan for and adjust accordingly.

SPEAKER_5 (1:58)

No more like, because I try to get a look at the guys cleats. I know they have the grass field. And when you get the weather like that, the guys are not wearing seven studs no more.

Mike Vrabel (2:06)

It's impossible to try to get these. They never use them growing up. And, you know, I mean, it's like telling them to stay off their phones.

SPEAKER_4 (2:15)

When it comes to Drake and the awareness at the end of the half, for him to be aware that there was one second left to go down, I know it didn't result in points, but to give Andy the opportunity, how impressive is that as a second year quarterback?

Mike Vrabel (2:27)

Those are things that we've been practicing. And again, that's kind of what we ended up doing the last couple of weeks there at the end of the half.

And we kind of go through these scenarios. And like, if you're going to scramble or we're going to, you know, we're going to have to know how far we can get. Before we have to get down or get out of bounds. So he's done a really nice job of that. And we're going to need some of those situations here in, you know, 13 days. And the situation is 14 days, whatever it is, 12 days.

Greg Hill (2:54)

He did say post game that he thought you were going to be mad on the keeper to seal the game that he ran out of bounds.

Mike Vrabel (3:01)

No, because again, once where the timeouts were and everything else, there's certain times where, you know, you're okay getting out of bounds if you get a first down. There's times where we would definitely like to stay in bounds. But in that situation, you know, resetting the downs with them, they don't have any timeouts, and we're good to go there. They've got the one timeout.

Greg Hill (3:24)

A lot of intrigue about that particular play by itself. What's the play call there? Is he deciding to go on his own?

Mike Vrabel (3:31)

Like, no, he doesn't go rogue. No, those aren't things that he does and goes rogue. And, you know, so we discuss those things, and Josh and I talk them through and what we want to do in five minutes, and plays that we have available, and, you know, those are always things that we can go to. So, just trying to get everybody on the same page, and, you know, Drake was able to do that and give us use his legs.