New England Patriots
“I believe I headbutted everyone. However I forgot Vrabes ain’t haven’t any helmet on.”
FOXBOROUGH — Mike Vrabel’s days of doling out punishment on the soccer discipline are over.
However the former linebacker and three-time Tremendous Bowl champion was sporting some injury as he made his manner as much as the rostrum after New England’s 16-3 win over the Chargers within the wild-card spherical.
The Patriots head coach had a fats lip as he fielded questions — courtesy of New England star defensive sort out Milton Williams.
After Williams sealed New England’s first playoff win since Tremendous Bowl LIII with a fourth-quarter sack towards Justin Herbert, the 6-foot-3, 290-pound defensive sort out left a path of destruction in his wake as he celebrated together with his teammates alongside the sideline.
After Williams dished out some helmet-to-helmet headbutts with a few of his teammates, Vrabel went into embrace the important thing free-agent pickup —catching Williams’ helmet right in the mouth.
“I used to be simply turnt,” Williams joked postgame. “That was simply pure emotion. I believe I headbutted everyone. However I forgot Vrabes ain’t haven’t any helmet on. He’ll be alright although.”
Regardless of taking a soccer helmet to the face, Vrabel laughed off the sequence whereas exhibiting Williams the injury.
For Vrabel, it was a becoming exhibiting from Williams and a Patriots protection that made life depressing for Herbert and the Chargers offense all night time lengthy.
Williams completed with two sacks as a part of a six-sack exhibiting from New England’s protection, with Herbert finishing simply 19 of 31 throws for 159 yards.
“We talked to them about being prepared to spill some blood on the market, that the large canines come out in January,” Vrabel stated of his protection. “I believe Milt took that to coronary heart in the way in which that he performed the sport, in the way in which he completed the sport. He came visiting and bought me fairly good. That’s what occurs.”
This isn’t the primary time this season that Vrabel has taken some injury in his first 12 months as Patriots head coach.
In August, Vrabel was bloodied after jumping into a fight that broke out between his gamers and the Washington Commanders throughout joint training-camp practices in Foxborough.
“I stated, ‘Coach, what’s unsuitable with you?’ And he stated, ‘You need to have seen the opposite man,’” DeMario Douglas stated of Vrabel’s bloodied face in August, per Mike Reiss of ESPN. “I simply noticed the scar on his face, however I didn’t know what occurred.”
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