{"id":622928,"date":"2025-12-23T18:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/622928\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T18:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:33:15","slug":"mike-vrabel-takes-blame-for-patriots-failed-fake-punt-vs-ravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/622928\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Vrabel takes blame for Patriots&#8217; failed fake punt vs. Ravens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOXBORO \u2014 Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel took accountability for a failed fake punt in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2025\/12\/21\/best-and-worst-what-we-learned-from-patriots-28-24-comeback-win-over-ravens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday night\u2019s win<\/a> over the Ravens.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing 17-13 with two minutes left in the third quarter, Vrabel called a fake punt pass from punt protector Marte Mapu on fourth-and-10. The play was designed to be thrown to fullback Jack Westover, but Mapu pulled up and started to scramble before being sacked for a 1-yard loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething that we had practiced, something that I felt confident in. I wouldn\u2019t have called it if we didn\u2019t feel confident in it. Unfortunately, it didn\u2019t work. So it was a bad call by me,\u201d Vrabel said. \u201cJust told \u2018Te to to throw it, give it a chance, give Jack a chance. If the guy dropped out of there, he dropped out of there. But try to give it a chance. It certainly wasn\u2019t designed to run. And he just felt like it wasn\u2019t there. And he made a decision. So I made a decision to try the play. I\u2019ll make other calls and good ones, and there\u2019ll be bad ones, as well. So, just felt like we needed something there, and it didn\u2019t go our way. Credit to the guys who kept playing and found a way to win the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots still wound up mounting a comeback in the 28-24 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOXBORO \u2014 Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel took accountability for a failed fake punt in Sunday night\u2019s win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[80,833,839,7,838,1167,249,2326,2094,6,15,835,61050,208,836,19972,834,61051,61052,724,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-622928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-drake-maye","10":"tag-eliot-wolf","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-mike-vrabel","13":"tag-new-england","14":"tag-new-england-patriots","15":"tag-newengland","16":"tag-newenglandpatriots","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-draft","19":"tag-nfl-news","20":"tag-nfl-patriots","21":"tag-patriots","22":"tag-patriots-2025","23":"tag-patriots-game","24":"tag-patriots-news","25":"tag-patriots-schedule","26":"tag-patriots-stats","27":"tag-pats","28":"tag-robert-kraft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115770320809455206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622928","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=622928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}