{"id":123371,"date":"2025-06-12T06:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/123371\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T06:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:39:15","slug":"patriots-star-likens-mike-vrabel-to-bill-belichick-in-great-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/123371\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Star Likens Mike Vrabel To Bill Belichick In Great Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keion White loved playing for Bill Belichick. But playing for Jerod Mayo? Not so much, as <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/06\/keion-white-takes-brutal-shot-at-jerod-mayo-former-patriots-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">was made clear<\/a> during Tuesday\u2019s post-practice media availability.<\/p>\n<p>But how does the third-year defensive end feel about the Patriots\u2019 new head coach?<\/p>\n<p>Well, White apparently is very high on Mike Vrabel, whom he compared to Belichick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like Mike,\u201d White told reporters. \u201cHe leads with work. I can respect that. It\u2019s similar to\u00a0Bill, just with a younger face. I think we all know how I feel about that; I liked him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it\u2019s comforting to know that you have a hard-ass at the helm who will not be afraid to fistfight with you in a back alley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>After posting one sack as a rookie under Belichick in 2023, White racked up five sacks last season while playing for Mayo. His stats improved across the board, but White\u2019s production dipped in the second half of the season while he butted heads with the coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>However, White has high hopes for next season, when he could be playing alongside newcomer Milton Williams and a healthy Christian Barmore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have really good guys on the inside who can get after the passer, even on early-down situations,\u201d he said. \u201cThat changes things I can do a little bit. Be less conservative and be more aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite looking like a potential star during his first two seasons, White still has much to prove at the NFL level. This could be a make-or-break season for the 2023 second-round pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keion White loved playing for Bill Belichick. But playing for Jerod Mayo? Not so much, as was made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[3851,7,7900,838,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-123371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-bill-belichick","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-keion-white","11":"tag-mike-vrabel","12":"tag-new-england","13":"tag-new-england-patriots","14":"tag-newengland","15":"tag-newenglandpatriots","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114669025039296464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}