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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I'll take some more leadership, please.
I think it could be argued that Vrabel was missed more than any other player last year. The guy was a tremendous leader and someone who could have helped to diffuse the AD issues and get everyone in-lone. Not to mention he could have played ILB and OLB as needed at at least as high a level as Seau and Burgess. And maybe he could have even helped to solve the early red zone problems they had.
You can argue that if he's on our roster right now, he's a starting OLB.
His (good natured) smart remarks to BB might have made Adalius happy, and he probably would have had a bigger impact on shutting the idiot up this season and possibly convincing him to "shutup and play". C'est la vie
Nope, old.
I want to retool this team to be faster, quicker and stronger. Not a nostalgic journey of the glory days with David Patten, Mike Vrabel and Derion Branch.
Too bad I really don't think the Pats want him back.
Yeah, I've read that Vrabel had a way about him that lets him get away with saying things that others can't.
“The thing we’ve said all along, we didn’t opt out (of the current deal). There was no problem from the players’ perspective,” Vrabel said. “(Patriots owner Robert Kraft) uses words like ‘partnership,’ and he throws the money and the dollars around. What we have is not a partnership. If we had a partnership, you would see what we made - they know what we make - and we would see what they made. We don’t have that. So don’t use the word ‘partnership’ or ‘bond’ and all that stuff. We both have to coexist to make this game continue to be the best product in professional sports.”
Vrabel said the two sides are at odds over who should bear certain costs.
“We want to get the owners cost cuts and cost reductions for things that continue to grow the game - stadiums, capital improvements, scoreboards, suites - so when they invest, we want to invest with them. Because then, we all win,” he said. “We don’t want to have to pay to play. We don’t want to pay to (transport) our team, to practice - things they want us to take ownership of. That to me, those are inherent (costs) to owning a sports team. That’s where we differ right now in opinion.”