Mike Vrabel is not the final head coach to be fired by the Titans.
However that gained’t make his return Sunday to Tennessee any much less intriguing.
A day after the Patriots held off New Orleans 25-19 for a 3rd straight street win, Vrabel took a peek forward to their subsequent journey to play the Titans.
“Having spent six years there or seven years there, I believe it’ll be good to see some people who I haven’t seen in just a few years that helped us win, gamers and workers,” Vrabel mentioned Monday. “However we’ve received an enormous job to do right here as we put together for them.”
Vrabel downplayed the importance of Sunday’s reunion, which is able to pit his 4-2 Patriots in opposition to the 1-5 Titans. Vrabel spoke roughly an hour earlier than the Titans fired his successor, Brian Callahan, after a yr and a half. Vrabel went 6-11 over his remaining season in Tennessee, the place he was fired in Jan. 2024.
Over six seasons, Vrabel completed 54-45 because the Titans’ head coach and gained two division titles. He additionally clinched a Wild Card playoff berth in 2019, when Tennessee made a run to the AFC Championship Recreation and beat the Patriots alongside the way in which. Two years later, he was named the NFL’s Coach of the 12 months.
Vrabel additionally minimized the anticipated storylines this week throughout a Monday morning interview on WEEI. Patriots veterans are already echoing Vrabel’s message, beginning with veteran middle Garrett Bradbury.
“It doesn’t matter what you probably did yesterday, you need to have a very good right now. That’s form of the message Coach Vrabel shares,” Bradbury mentioned, as transcribed by ESPN. “We have now a variety of guys, former Tennessee individuals on this constructing, so there shall be a bit further for them. However as gamers we have now to indicate up and execute.”
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