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Winners of 11 consecutive AFC East titles from 2009-2019, the New England Patriots have spiraled to back-to-back last-place finishes in the division.<\/p>\n

The Pats have been to one playoff game in the past five seasons and haven’t won a postseason tilt since 2018.<\/p>\n

Last year’s dud, an uninspiring 4-13 performance, cost coach Jerod Mayo his job after just one season. In steps Mike Vrabel, a three-time Super Bowl champion as a player, to turn things around.<\/p>\n

The no-nonsense coach expressed his thoughts on last year’s dismal season in the first episode of “Forged in Foxborough<\/a>,” produced by the team.<\/p>\n

“Why the f— would I care about what happened last year?” Vrabel said. “I’m worried about what’s going to go right today and tomorrow and the next day. We’re not worried about what went wrong. We’re focused on what’s going to go right.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winners of 11 consecutive AFC East titles from 2009-2019, the New England Patriots have spiraled to back-to-back last-place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[1227,7,1167,249,2326,2094,88,6,609,4267,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-79713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-new-england","11":"tag-new-england-patriots","12":"tag-newengland","13":"tag-newenglandpatriots","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-no-minute","17":"tag-offseason-news","18":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114572871862849132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79713","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=79713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}