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Would be a good hire. Whoever they hire will need to bring in a good OC and fix the QB issue if they want to last.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Mike Vrabel breaks silence on 2024 head coaching cycle that resulted in him not getting a job
Vrabel is now one of the hottest candidates this hiring cycle
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Mike Vrabel breaks silence on 2024 head coaching cycle that resulted in him not getting a job
Vrabel is now one of the hottest candidates this hiring cycle
If an NFL franchise has a head coach opening this hiring cycle, it'll likely take less than a second for Mike Vrabel's name to be injected into the conversation.
With the 2024 regular season wrapping up this week and Black Monday looming over various organizations, the hiring cycle is set to begin in earnest, with Vrabel sitting effectively at the top of most rankings for available head coaching candidates. Already, Vrabel has interviewed with the New York Jets, which should be the first of many he receives over the next few weeks.
Overall, it's remarkable that Vrabel is even to be had by an organization at this juncture. His firing as the head coach of the Tennessee Titans at the end of the 2023 season was a surprise as the 49-year-old had won NFL Coach of the Year with the team back in 2021. Vrabel had been above .500 (54-45) in the regular season during his tenure as well. Even after his firing, he was considered a top candidate for other organizations but ultimately did not land a job. However, it's a little bit more nuanced than Vrabel simply striking out.
As highlighted in an in-depth piece covering Vrabel's "gap year" in The Athletic, he felt as if he would have landed the opening for the Los Angeles Chargers had it not been for the organization's prior connection with Jim Harbaugh, who they ultimately hired. Beyond that, he never considered himself a serious contender for the Atlanta Falcons job and had little interest in jumping aboard as the head coach of the Carolina Panthers.
During that interview process, Vrabel did notice a consistent line of questioning that suggested he does not collaborate with ownership and the front office, which he dispelled.
"I care about the team. No job is too small for me or anybody else to help the team win," Vrabel said, via The Athletic. "I feel like I can work with anybody. I feel like winning is the ultimate goal and I — just like our team — have got to be willing to adjust and adapt to things that are going on.
"But I believe that I can respectfully disagree, have a conversation and move on and get past it. I'm also not afraid to share my opinion and what I believe in, my convictions about things that relate to helping a football team win, building a team or helping players, helping scouts. I love when coaches and scouts get together post-draft, I love collaborating with the general manager on inactives (on game day). I tried to incorporate that system into Tennessee because it's something that I embraced and loved about what we did in Houston. It's a unique relationship (coach and GM), one that has to remain respectful at all times. I think that it always was. Are we going to disagree? Yeah, I hope that we do so that we can grow. But ultimately, somebody's gotta be in charge."
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If Jets hire Louis Riddick as GM, who I think is an OUTSTANDING evaluator of talent... plus Vrabel... subtract Rodgers... great things could happen quick
Riddick was the most adamant that CJ Stroud was THE BEST QB when all the bashing was going on... He also pumped for Jayden Daniels... IMO he's the best and I'd love for the Browns to go after him
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They have a fair amount of talent so a quick turnaround is possible. For that to happen, however, you need one of the bottom 5 owners in the league to make good hires and get out of their way. Would be a departure from his historical MO.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
He's on the top of (pretty much) everyone's list:Patriots Job now open.
NBC Sports: Mike Vrabel? Ben Johnson? Potential candidates for Patriots HC job
NYT: Mike Vrabel, Brian Flores and the top candidates to be the Patriots’ next head coach
CBS Sports2025 Patriots head coaching candidates: Mike Vrabel headlines potential replacements for Jerod Mayo
USA Today: Patriots coaching candidates: Mike Vrabel, best options to replace Jerod Mayo
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
I can't believe that. A guy who emphatically said he'd never coach college and hated the thought of recruiting was not coming here. Throw in the fact that he knew he'd be the hottest NFL prospect in the new year. He wasn't coming.
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