The Pats were thought to be rebuilding a few years ago. Looking back on it, from Tom Brady's exit to Jerod Mayo's, they were falling apart.

As a player familiar with the “Patriot Way” cultivated by Bill Belichick during his two-plus decade run in New England, Vrabel said he’s borrowed from the former coaches and bosses that he learned him, such as John Cooper, Urban Meyer, Bill Cowher, Romeo Crennel and Belichick, to develop his own coaching philosophy.