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The Greg Hill Show

How did Mike Vrabel Not Get Hired Sooner?

The Greg Hill Show

Audacy

Sports

2.6709 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Segment - The crew takes a look at what Mike Vrabel has done for the Patriots so far this season. They are 11-2 heading into their bye week, and aren't showing signs of slowing down. How did Vrabel not get hired elsewhere?

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0:00.0

The head coach of the New England Patriots, Mike Rabel, getting his team ready for the bye week and bringing up the C word.

0:10.2

I mean, I guess nothing I can criticize when it comes to head coach of this football.

0:15.3

No.

0:16.2

Do you mind him using that word?

0:18.8

Yeah, because if you listen to rabble talk and this is

0:23.4

i think what you know makes him so successful as a head coach and i think this is what makes

0:28.3

head coach is successful as he talks with this swagger and attitude of like we're good but pumped the brakes if we want to be champions

0:42.4

we got to do this we got to do that and like and i think a lot of players hear that and the ones

0:48.8

that are being coached by him go this guy would know better than anybody. Champions are never satisfied. Former player

0:55.6

was on the dynasty, played with Tom Brady, right? And they're like, and he talks with this

1:01.5

like, this, this, this, this swagger of like, yeah, you're good, but you're not that good.

1:07.8

Like, let's come back down to earth. And I really, when I heard that, I was like, that was inspired to me, make me want to do something.

1:13.1

Yeah, I think that what Brable has been able to do is work with the modern athlete regarding

1:20.3

not to be too negative the way he was coached when he was a football player, while also

1:26.4

not allowing them to think they can take a

1:28.6

shortcut.

1:29.3

Right.

1:29.8

And he has, as Wiki alluded to it, the most credibility anybody could possibly have.

1:36.2

He was able to extract the most from the greatest player in the history of the sport.

1:41.0

Those Patriots teams, I mean, they're not on Disney Plus anymore, but there was

1:45.5

these Man in the Arena episodes where every Super Bowl season, Brady would have two former

1:50.1

teammates and they would talk about what made it unique and all that. And there was one with

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