When Vrabel talks football, you can’t help but perk up and listen. He commands respect, based on 14 years of playing experience, and six years as a head coach.

With each passing day at the NFL combine, it’s becoming clearer and clearer how the Patriots will change under Mike Vrabel.

After a second straight 4-13 season, the New England Patriots need to rebuild their roster — almost from the ground up. Apart from second-year quarterback Drake Maye, and third-year cornerback Christian Gonzalez,

Patriots insiders discussed when team owner Robert Kraft seriously "began pondering" replacing first-year coach Jerod Mayo with Mike Vrabel.

T he Patriots have been in an uncommon situation over the past two years having to find a new head coach for the first time since before the millennium. After another underwhelmin