{"id":20510,"date":"2025-05-03T12:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T12:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/20510\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T12:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T12:06:16","slug":"how-patriots-head-coach-mike-vrabel-shocked-matt-lafleur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/20510\/","title":{"rendered":"How Patriots Head Coach Mike Vrabel &#8216;Shocked&#8217; Matt LaFleur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt LaFleur only worked with New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel for one season, but it was a memorable experience.<\/p>\n<p>The Packers head coach was Vrabel\u2019s offensive coordinator in 2018 when the two were with the Tennessee Titans. LaFleur\u2019s first experience with the Patriots Hall of Famer was one he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PatMcAfeeShow\/status\/1915807338016940544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">didn\u2019t forget<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat shocked me when I first met Mike, ripping heaters down Broadway,\u201d LaFleur said on the \u201cPat McAfee Show\u201d on Friday. \u201cThat is the truth. That\u2019s old school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LaFleur added that whenever his team played against Vrabel, those teams were \u201ctough as (expletive).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vrabel built a legendary reputation for himself while at Ohio State as a player and coach, and it\u2019s part of why players <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/04\/will-campbell-perfect-draftee-to-start-mike-vrabel-patriots-era\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">gravitate toward him<\/a>. Unfortunately for LaFleur, he won\u2019t have the opportunity to game plan against his old boss this season. But it\u2019s clear the 45-year-old still maintains a high level of respect for Vrabel after leaving the Titans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt LaFleur only worked with New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel for one season, but it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,3031,838,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-20510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-matt-lafleur","10":"tag-mike-vrabel","11":"tag-new-england","12":"tag-new-england-patriots","13":"tag-newengland","14":"tag-newenglandpatriots","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20510","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=20510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}