{"id":705326,"date":"2026-01-26T02:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/705326\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T02:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:25:22","slug":"how-a-super-bowl-win-could-cement-mike-vrabels-legacy-in-nfl-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/705326\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Super Bowl win could cement Mike Vrabel&#8217;s legacy in NFL history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-england-patriots\/348\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New England Patriots;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New England Patriots<\/a> head coach Mike Vrabel has already achieved NFL history on Sunday, as he led the organization to an AFC Championship win over Denver and a Super Bowl bid in his first season at the helm of the franchise. The successful season comes on the heels of back-to-back four-win seasons in New England, making the Patriots the first franchise to reach the Super Bowl under a first-year head coach after four or fewer wins the previous season.<\/p>\n<p>Vrabel can also lay claim to becoming just the eighth head coach in NFL history to lead a team to a Super Bowl in his first season, and the Patriots are the first team to advance to a Super Bowl with 13 or more losses in their previous season. But Super Bowl LX now offers another opportunity to make history for Vrabel.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>If the Patriots win the big game, Vrabel will become the only person in NFL history to capture a Super Bowl Championship as a coach and a player with the same franchise, after winning three Super Bowls (XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX) with the organization as a player between the 2001-2004 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Vrabel also has the opportunity to become just the sixth man in NFL history to win a Super Bowl as both a player and a coach, joining a list that includes Mike Ditka, Tom Flores, Gary Kubiak, Doug Pederson, and Tony Dungy. The Patriots will face the winner of Sunday&#8217;s NFC Championship Game between the Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LX.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Touchdown Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/touchdownwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/touchdown\/2026\/01\/25\/how-a-super-bowl-win-could-cement-mike-vrabels-legacy-in-nfl-history\/88354977007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:How a Super Bowl win could cement Mike Vrabel&#039;s legacy in NFL history;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">How a Super Bowl win could cement Mike Vrabel&#8217;s legacy in NFL history<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel has already achieved NFL history on Sunday, as he led the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[114,231,7,19674,58,40890,838,1167,249,6,6436,261,505],"class_list":["post-705326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-afc-championship","tag-denver","tag-football","tag-gary-kubiak","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-mike-ditka","tag-mike-vrabel","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-history","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-super-bowl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115959034009281920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705326","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=705326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}