{"id":489294,"date":"2025-01-12T11:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T15:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=489294"},"modified":"2025-01-12T11:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T15:57:37","slug":"patriots-appoint-mike-vrabel-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/patriots-appoint-mike-vrabel-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots appoint Mike Vrabel as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Vrabel has returned to the NE Patriots after agreeing today on a multiyear deal to become their new manager.<\/p>\n<p>Mike competed as LB for the franchise from 2001 to 2008 and was an integral member of Super Bowl-winning teams. Vrabel worked as \u00a0Tennessee Titans head coach from 2018-23, having a 54-45 regular-campaign stats and 2-3 mark in the postseason, which featured a trip to the AFC Championship Game 6 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Mike, the Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year 3 years ago, replaces Jerod Mayo, who was dismissed earlier this month after finishing 4-13 in his 1 campaign as New England boss.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He\u2019s back!<\/p>\n<p>Patriots Hall of Famer Mike Vrabel returns to New England as our 16th head coach. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a3r7IQNzvk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/a3r7IQNzvk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New England Patriots (@Patriots) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patriots\/status\/1878468227631559013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The organization also interviewed Detroit Lions OC Ben Johnson, ex-Bucs OC Byron Leftwich, and ex-Texans OC Pep Hamilton for the head coaching position.<\/p>\n<p>Mike is known most as a Patriot during his playing career, which also featured time with the Steelers and Chiefs. He spent 3 campaigns at Ohio State, then 4 with the Houston Texans, before the 6-season period as Tennessee boss that finished when he was dismissed after straight losing campaigns. Last year, Vrabel was a coaching and personnel consultant for the Browns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Vrabel has returned to the NE Patriots after agreeing today on a multiyear deal to become their new manager. Mike competed as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":489295,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[23402,17487,17324],"news_category":[16703,16715],"gn_keywords":[22535,18130,17873],"acf":{"announce":"New England agrees to terms with Mike to become the new head coach.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489297,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489294\/revisions\/489297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489294"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=489294"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=489294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}