As a former player, coach Mike Vrabel always had connections to the New England Patriots organization, and that was probably enough to get him a coaching job with the team earlier. However, he felt a need to leave New England and build his own path to an eventual

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.