Patriots Draft Countdown 2/25: At the NFL Combine with Head Coach Mike Vrabel

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Mike Dussault and Evan Lazar set the scene and discuss the main storylines to be answered from a Patriots perspective at the NFL Scouting Combine. We discuss our prospects we are most looking forward to talking with and seeing workouts from. Plus, we are joined by Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel for a sit-down interview for his memories as a player at the Combine, what he's looking to accomplish this week, his overall draft strategy and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody. We're coming to you from the 2025 NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis.
0:04.4	This is Patriots Draft Countdown, presented by Bud Light.
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0:11.3	And Evan, we're back in India.
0:12.5	It feels like we never left.
0:14.0	Right back in the mix of it.
0:15.0	It's Tuesday.
0:15.6	We're hearing from some of the coaches and GMs today. We did have a chance to sit down and talk to Mike Vrable. But, Ev, let's start things off with just a general scene center here.
0:23.4	You love the combine.
0:24.1	I love the combine.
0:24.8	A lot of big questions, different position groups standing out a little bit.
0:28.4	We heard Coach Vrable talk about the defensive line, the edge, the linebackers,
0:32.5	our favorite, the front seven deep class this year.
0:34.6	But what are you most excited for this week here, and Indy? Well, this is the start of it all. And I feel like just listening to a lot of the head
0:41.3	coaches and general managers this morning, including Mike Frable, the board is pretty, uh,
0:46.9	you know, it's pretty early, like in the entire process. And I feel like at this point,
0:50.3	we all just want to jump at scenarios and talk about Abdul Carter and Travis Hunter and
0:54.8	Will Campbell and this, that, the other thing. And right now, we're kind of like still on the front
1:00.2	nine of the draft process for a lot of these teams. So I'm really looking forward to obviously the
1:06.7	drills at the end of the week, but I think a lot of the personnel people will talk about
1:11.7	the interviews and the medicals and that sort of stuff. We aren't privy to that necessarily,
1:17.3	but that's where a lot of this can really make or break a draft prospect stock is, you know,
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