Head Coach Mike Vrabel on WEEI: "It was fun to watch - there was a flow and everyone was feeding off each other"

Greg Hill (0:00)

Good morning, Coach.

Mike Vrabel (0:00)

Good morning.

Greg Hill (0:01)

Victory shot time, once again here. Get us going.

Mike Vrabel (0:04)

Congrats.

Greg Hill (0:05)

That is 11 of them. All right. A little energy boost. And really good. A tradition, and we can't stop doing it, because of the-

Mike Vrabel (0:17)

That baby's gonna come out just immunified up and wake me up.

Greg Hill (0:21)

Yeah. Get you going.

Mike Vrabel (0:23)

It will.

Greg Hill (0:23)

Well, late night last night. By the way, we were sold the bill of goods by the guys doing the broadcast, Buck and Aikman. And they said you have the stash taken care of this morning. And it's-

Mike Vrabel (0:35)

That was not on the top of my list. It was just trying to get down here this morning. All right.

Greg Hill (0:39)

So you're gonna keep it?

Mike Vrabel (0:40)

No. I'm going to go on today.

Greg Hill (0:42)

I like the cleats. Yeah.

Mike Vrabel (0:44)

That turned out cool.

Greg Hill (0:45)

Pretty cool. And certainly, that's 11 wins and a good effort here at home. And that's a team. It's so interesting. Wiggy talks all about, has been talking a lot this season more than any other, about parity in the league. And that's a, you look at that Giants team, they beat the Eagles, beat the Chargers. It's, that's a football team that could have bothered you.

Mike Vrabel (1:12)

Well, I think they all can. You know, and if you don't show up ready to go and you don't do the things that are important to winning and you don't play complimentary and you take a nap, you lose. But I thought it was cool just talking about my shoes and the player's shoes and just the causes that they have and seeing, you know, Drake and the rest of our team and Gonzo, you know, things that they hold dear to them, I think is important. So I'm glad that they were able to do that on a national stage.

SPEAKER_3 (1:44)

Now, I need you to give me the lottery numbers because I think it was last week, you said Jones is going to pop punt return and he actually did it. What did you see on that play that ultimately led to him being able to score?

Mike Vrabel (1:58)

You got to get him started and to do that, you got to block the guys on the edges. I thought our guys did that. I thought Charles Woods, I thought Miles Battle got, you know, did their job, Del got him started. And then you're going to need some some blocks, some legal blocks down down there to spring them for a touchdown. And I thought guys were doing that. And we do that on Friday and it's not that pace. But it's like, OK, he catches he catches the last one. And you know, the show team is running down on the punt and everybody's kind of finishing and he kind of weaves in and out and goes and scores. And I'm standing over there, I'm like, looks just like it did on Friday. I said, that's pretty good or whatever Saturday was for us.

Courtney (2:38)

The last couple of weeks, we've asked you about the defense starting off slow and how do you fix that last night? They were firing on all cylinders. They looked so fired up. Did anything change in practice this week that got them there or it just was working for them?

Mike Vrabel (2:52)

No, I just appreciate how they came out and they were aggressive. It had been a while since we'd played and it just was a long week.

And we talked about attacking and aggressive and just saying, hey, if they're going to run a quarterback or if they're going to run a gadget play, it's hard to scheme these gadget plays up. And sometimes the best answer is violence. And some of those guys chose that and that was good to see.

Greg Hill (3:17)

Obviously missing a couple of guys on the line last night, but you get next man up from low.

Mike Vrabel (3:21)

Yeah, this league is about that and making sure that guys get in there. And Ben played a lot last week. Verdarian played most of the second half. And so they had a week of work. I thought it was a good plan that the players believed in. And ultimately, they went out and performed. And I think we're excited about playing.

Greg Hill (3:42)

I heard a suggestion yesterday, somebody insider, that you guys wanted to make sure Will Campbell didn't rush himself back, hence putting him on.