{"id":723092,"date":"2026-02-02T05:23:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/723092\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:23:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:23:24","slug":"tedy-bruschi-knows-mike-vrabel-moment-that-sparked-patriots-super-bowl-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/723092\/","title":{"rendered":"Tedy Bruschi knows Mike Vrabel moment that sparked Patriots&#8217; Super Bowl run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 There were no storm warnings about the 2025 New England Patriots when Hurricane Vrabel rained down onto a pile during an August joint practice with the Commanders and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/06\/sports\/mike-vrabel-bloodied-after-breaking-up-patriots-commanders-fight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">emerged with a bloodied cheek.<\/a> But perhaps there should have been.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to build, and it starts with the head coach \u2014 intensity, bringing it every day, taking no crap when we\u2019re out there on the field,\u201d Drake Maye said. \u201cThe mentality, I like it. That\u2019s what you want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Right then and there the identity of these AFC champion Patriots was forged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe initial reaction is that\u2019s who he is,\u201d ESPN analyst and former Vrabel running mate Tedy Bruschi told The Post. \u201cAnd then what I probably thought most was, \u2018OK, it\u2019ll be a sign of progress when there\u2019s like 5-10 players doing that rather than the head coach.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 There were no storm warnings about the 2025 New England Patriots when Hurricane Vrabel rained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[4413,7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208,261,9,2833,3248,505,41484],"class_list":{"0":"post-723092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-exclusive","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-new-england","11":"tag-new-england-patriots","12":"tag-newengland","13":"tag-newenglandpatriots","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-patriots","16":"tag-seattle-seahawks","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-columnists","19":"tag-sports-plus","20":"tag-super-bowl","21":"tag-super-bowl-2026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115999369150185111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723092","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=723092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}