{"id":233546,"date":"2025-07-24T23:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/233546\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T23:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:31:11","slug":"jabrill-peppers-reveals-how-mike-vrabel-roasted-him-at-latest-patriots-patrice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/233546\/","title":{"rendered":"Jabrill Peppers Reveals How Mike Vrabel Roasted Him At Latest Patriots&#8217; Patrice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Vrabel has opened up the New England Patriots\u2019 training camp by <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/07\/mike-vrabel-patriots-camp-media-culture-reset\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">roasting some of the media members<\/a> covering the team. On Thursday, he took aim at one of his own players, as star safety Jabrill Peppers felt his wrath.<\/p>\n<p>When taking over the Patriots, Vrabel made it clear that he wanted to completely change the culture in the building. That means taking a no-nonsense approach to football, while also playing a tough, physical style on the field.<\/p>\n<p>If there were any doubts about what Vrabel was looking to accomplish this season, he made things clear when he <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/07\/mike-vrabel-roasts-reporter-patriots-report-training-camp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called out the media on back-to-back days<\/a> to begin training camp. On Thursday, Peppers tested Vrabel, and he paid the price.<\/p>\n<p>Vrabel is known to get involved in his team\u2019s practices, and he ended up donning a No. 5 jersey in the team\u2019s latest session, which happens to be the number Peppers wears. When Peppers told Vrabel he couldn\u2019t wear his number, his new head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PatriotsCLNS\/status\/1948431222633329129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">quickly fired back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI keep telling him to take that five off. He\u2019s not tough enough,\u201d Peppers said to Vrabel. \u201cHe told me to go check in on the Patriots Hall of Fame. Nothing I can say to come back from that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Players typically didn\u2019t want to mess with Vrabel during his career in New England as a player, when he helped the franchise win three Super Bowls. As it turns out, you still don\u2019t want to mess with him, even though he\u2019s a coach now.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Peppers dealt with some legal trouble last season, but heading into 2025, he has a clean slate ahead of him, and he figures to play a key role at the back of the secondary alongside fellow starting safety Kyle Dugger.<\/p>\n<p>His barbs aren\u2019t getting to Vrabel, but it\u2019s clear the competitive nature of Vrabel\u2019s team is beginning to form. He will continue to look to get his team ready for action when they take the field for practice again on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Vrabel has opened up the New England Patriots\u2019 training camp by roasting some of the media members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,7899,838,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-233546","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-jabrill-peppers","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":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114910821826916027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233546","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=233546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}