FOXBORO, Mass. — Mike Vrabel was in command.
The New England Patriots head coach answered greater than a dozen questions from the media throughout his introductory press convention at Gillette Stadium on Monday. In doing so, Vrabel shared his imaginative and prescient of the tradition he desires to implement, together with what he’ll be on the lookout for from gamers on the soccer discipline.
We compiled greater than a dozen of his greatest quotes, together with these from his opening assertion and solutions to questions. They’re each precious and telling as Vrabel will get began.
New England’s in Vrabel’s soul
“… Ultimately, it was clear to me and to my household and my soul that this was the place that I needed to be, and I thank Robert, and I thank the Kraft household.”
One phrase pertains to all the pieces
“I wish to provoke our soccer group. I wish to provoke this constructing. I wish to provoke our followers.”
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Tradition-setter
“One factor I noticed about tradition is you will discover out what your tradition seems to be like when your loved ones, what you are promoting, or your group is at its low level. It’s not once you’re profitable Tremendous Bowls. … However that tradition goes to be constructed on profitable, a aggressive spirit all through our roster and all through our gamers and all through our coaches and our workers and the power to place the group first and care about someone apart from your self.”
Eradicating the entitlement
“We’re going to earn the precise to be right here day by day. We’re going to maneuver entitlement from our soccer group. We’re going to get all the pieces that we’ve earned from the pinnacle coach to the place coaches, all the best way all the way down to the gamers. We’re going to earn the precise to be right here each single day.”
You’ll get what you set in
“… We wish to deal with each participant the identical method they deal with the group, and we wish to deal with each worker the identical method they deal with the group. In the event that they care concerning the group they usually come right here with a fantastic perspective and a willingness to work and assist the group, I’ve requested Robert to do all the pieces that we are able to for them, to help them and their households. That’s the kind of setting that I wish to construct.”
Vrabel’s ‘imaginative and prescient’ of gamers
“We’re going to ask our gamers to only do just a few issues. One is to place the group first, to know what to do and play quick and aggressive. That’s the imaginative and prescient for the kind of participant. … These are the issues we’re going to ask the gamers to do — put the group first, know what to do, and play quick and aggressive and play with some pace.”
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Trying forward to collaboration
“I believe crucial factor is there’s a shared organizational imaginative and prescient for what we wish to do and the way we wish to work and the way we wish to purchase gamers. … I’m simply excited to sit down down with Eliot (Wolf) and his workers. I’ve met extra with Eliot over the weekend than I’ve — I’ve had conversations with him, however I want to sit down down along with his workers and work out the place we’re at, what we have to do. I’m assured that these sorts of choices are all going to type themselves out.”
Teaching workers not solidified, however desired traits are
“I’ll inform you this, so long as I’m the pinnacle coach right here, our coaches may have three easy jobs — they usually sound easy, they usually’re most likely not so simple as we wish to make them be. They wish to educate, they wish to develop, they usually wish to encourage our gamers by making a connection.”
Working with Drake Maye
“Drake goes to be his personal individual, however I’m going to offer him some issues that I really feel like are vital to assist us win soccer video games.”
What the banners characterize
“The banners that hold in our stadium, they’re not going to assist us win, however I believe it’s a fantastic reminder of what it takes to win and the kind of folks that it’s important to have within the group, the selflessness, the work and the sacrifice that it’s important to make.”
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Draft, previous doesn’t matter
“All people obtained right here and can get right here by a special avenue. Perhaps we drafted them. Perhaps we signed them as a free agent. Perhaps we are going to signal them as a free agent. However none of that may matter. None of that may matter how we obtained right here. The one factor that’s going to matter is what we do after we’re right here, and that’s crucial factor that I can inform them is that everyone in my eyes is beginning over and they’re going to show to us and to this group the affect that they’ll make.”
Clear thought on roster upgrades
“Definitely, you have a look at the groups which might be in a position to defend the quarterback and dictate the circulate of the sport offensively, ensuring that up entrance we’re sound, we’re robust, whether or not that’s by free company or the draft, that’s one thing that’s vital.”
‘Attention-grabbing’ response to matter of Invoice Belichick
“… So I believe there’s additionally issues I’m going to attempt to clarify to the gamers, there’s issues which might be attention-grabbing and there’s issues which might be necessary. I believe me having performed for Invoice (Belichick) is attention-grabbing, I simply don’t know if it’s necessary to serving to our gamers.”
Engaging features of job
“I believe the power to have open dialogue with Robert and Jonathan (Kraft) was one thing that was vital, Eliot and his workers, clearly what I consider and what all people else believes is a younger, dynamic quarterback. We’ve some youth on the roster. We’ve some veteran gamers who’ve type of seen either side of it and perceive, and that may assist me and can assist our gamers get again to that success and perceive how exhausting it’s.”
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A number of ‘nonnegotiables’
“Folks ask what non-negotiables are. Our effort and our end goes to be the contract that we make with our teammates. That will probably be my job to ensure.”
