{"id":56236,"date":"2025-05-17T01:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T01:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/56236\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T01:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T01:50:14","slug":"patriots-newcomer-received-this-nickname-from-coach-mike-vrabel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/56236\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Newcomer Received This Nickname From Coach Mike Vrabel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Gibbens, like many other Patriots newcomers, already was plenty familiar with Mike Vrabel when he arrived in New England.<\/p>\n<p>The Vrabel-led Titans gave Gibbens an NFL opportunity in 2022 when Tennessee signed the linebacker after he went undrafted. The Minnesota product made the most of it, going from an unheralded roster long shot to a 13-game starter in Nashville in 2023. Gibbens was limited to 10 games in 2024 due to injury, but his season-plus of work with Vrabel inspired <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/03\/patriots-reportedly-sign-ex-mike-vrabel-defender-to-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a reunion in Foxboro, Mass.,<\/a> this spring.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old spoke with Patriots media Thursday, and a particular anecdote shed light on why New England\u2019s head coach was motivated to work with Gibbens again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe started calling me \u2018Dr. Gibby\u2019 in rookie minicamp,\u201d Gibbens told reporters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/patriots\/news\/new-england-patriots-mike-vrabel-gives-jack-gibbens-humorous-nickname\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">as transcribed by<\/a> Sports Illustrated. \u201cHe likes to ask a lot of questions and quiz people, and I answered a few right. He started calling me \u2018doctor.\u2019 I had to let him know that I didn\u2019t study medicine at school. \u2026But, he let me know it was a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of good first impressions, Drake Maye left a lasting one on Gibbens when the Patriots and the Titans met at Nissan Stadium last season. Gibben\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/05\/how-drake-maye-impressed-patriots-veteran-linebacker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">gained \u201ca lot of respect\u201d<\/a> for Maye from that contest, particularly due to the young quarterback\u2019s competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Now, Maye and Gibbens will work together as New England tries to take big steps forward in 2025. And who knows, if the signal-caller excels as a sophomore, maybe he will receive his own nickname from Vrabel.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Gibbens, like many other Patriots newcomers, already was plenty familiar with Mike Vrabel when he arrived in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,10286,838,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-56236","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-jack-gibbens","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\/114520668878002358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56236","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=56236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}