Mike Vrabel Talks Red Zone Improvements Ahead of Panthers Game | New England Patriots

Mike Vrabel Talks Red Zone Improvements Ahead of Panthers Game | New England Patriots

[Music] Welcome back to Patriots All Access. Time to sit down and talk with head coach Mike Vrabel. Coach, good to see you. Um, obviously five turnovers in a football game doesn’t matter who you play, it’s not a recipe to win games. No, that’s uh and I think there’s only been one team that’s been minus four in the last 10 years that uh won the football game. And the fact that we had, you know, there’s good news and bad news. is the fact that we had a chance to to tie it, that we were in the game, I guess, is is good news that that we’re going to fight and we’re not front runners. The bad news is we put ourselves in that position. They did hang in. I thought your defense really settled in after that first drive and uh gave your offense an opportunity. Yeah. And they their job is to play defense wherever it is, wherever the wherever they put the ball down. We have to play defense to play better defense in the red zone. You know, that’s something that uh that we’re going to have to really focus on and get better uh on both sides of the football is is red zone scoring touchdowns and and not kicking field goals or, you know, being able to not turn the ball over and convert those into touchdowns. I know coach Tomman after the game said it was a point of emphasis. They coach that, they teach that punching the ball out, not necessarily that every ball was punched out or, you know, the interceptions were tipped or whatever. But how do you coach against that from an offensive standpoint without being about one, it’s about protecting the guy with the ball, you know? I mean, we had a couple guys that that came in that guys that we didn’t see. Uh, we have to do better job fundamentally. Um, you know, putting two hands on the football and and if we have to, you know, I mean, we got to we got we got to lock it up in traffic. Um, and that’s what it’s going to have to be. Get get over our pads, take surface area away. Um, but also starting with uh protecting the guy with the ball so that people can’t come in and and and get them when they don’t see him. They can make the first guy miss and you know, it’s always the guy that you don’t see. That’s interesting. You you you talk about that because that’s the first time I ever heard that. Like we got to worry about everybody else doing their job because the point of vets is always on the ball carrier. That’s the easy thing. That’s that’s the easy thing. We we can point those out. Everybody can see that and and that has to be better and it has to improve, but but we can also improve uh the other stuff as well. Protecting the guy with the ball. All right. Quarter pole. Carolina’s on your schedule. You saw it when the schedule came out. You’re a new staff here. When did you start on this team? It’s not a common opponent. You know, it’s not a divisional opponent. Um when did you start looking at them and and really preparing for them? After we watched the tape from from yesterday, you know, we can’t we can’t look too far ahead. We we have to focus on improving. This is an improvement league. And if we don’t improve the things that uh that we did poorly yesterday, uh it won’t matter who the opponent is. Good thing is you’re home. Get back out there. Do it at home. Time now for the Sports Illustrated. Ticket question of the week comes from Carol G. Wants to ask you, how do you coach the DBs? It’s one of the hardest positions to play other than quarterback potentially where you’re out there on an island, balls in the air. Talking about penalties called against them, technique, the face guarding. Uh is it is it good to look back for the football? I think when you’re in phase, you have to be able to look back and again, if you’re not in phase, uh you’re going to have to get back there and then again hope for that the ball’s not under thrown, right? Cuz cuz when you’re not playing the football, um a lot of those, um hand fighting and things go away. Uh you have to use good technique. I think that, you know, when you give them reasons to call penalties, they will. I think we gave them too many reasons yesterday. Uh but then again sometimes it um you know we don’t see eye to eye on the calls and you know that’s how it goes. That’s a tough position to be able to play. We have to be able to play square um not open a gate, not let him run but then be able to challenge and just like CD did on the touchdown. I think went up through the pocket tried to punch through. Uh it was a good receiver that made a good play. It was a good throw. We were we were in, you know, contested and I think that’s everything we would teach. They just made a play on us. All right. All right. If you want to ask the coach a question, you have to follow the team at patriots.comaskthe coach. We’ll be back later in the shows with X’s and O’s and coach will sit tight. We’ll be back. Good place. All right. See you soon.

Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel sits down with Scott Zolak to talk about improvements after the multiple turnovers from the loss against the Steelers. Vrabel speaks to their plans as they move forward when the Carolina Panthers come to Foxboro on Sunday.

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