Mike Vrabel discusses his Offensive Line

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"Some of these sacks are a little misleading"- What did #Patriots HC Mike Vrabel think of the offensive line play? What does Vrabel make of the parody in the #NFL

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00:00Talk about the offensive line and what they've been able to do

00:03when it comes not only protecting Drake May,

00:05but obviously what they do in the run game,

00:08what they've been able to do through the first four games.

00:12Yeah, Ben stepped in for Jared, and Ben's been working extremely hard.

00:15He's worked at center and guard throughout camp

00:17and played a little bit last year for the Patriots.

00:21And so he stepped right in.

00:23I thought he played well.

00:24I thought he had a great play demeanor, great push.

00:26And, yeah, the ability to protect, you know,

00:31and some of these sacks are a little misleading.

00:34You know, it just goes in as a sack.

00:36And then you go back and watch him.

00:37You're like, oh, Drake scrambled and ran out of bounds for no gain,

00:41and that's a sack.

00:42So, again, but there's other ones.

00:44And so I don't get too caught up in that.

00:45But, you know, as long as we're trying to create a good pocket,

00:48you know, when we are behind, you know,

00:50when we're not moving the launch point that's firm in the middle

00:53and that we're able to run the edge guys by

00:56and that we're not getting beat inside or we're not loose inside

00:59because then the quarterback and the timing gets broken down

01:01and they have to, you know, step and avoid.

01:04And now their eye sometimes goes down,

01:06doesn't stay on the receiver or the routes.

01:09And so when we can do that, which they have,

01:14and, again, they're working extremely hard, you know, on third down.

01:16There's games every week.

01:18There's loaded fronts.

01:19There's mug fronts.

01:20And guys are twisted.

01:21And you have to work with the guy next to you to protect them

01:24because these guys are trying to come and pick.

01:27And you have to flatten out the penetrator.

01:29So those are things that they're working extremely hard on.

01:31And it's good to see some of that translate.

01:34I used to be firm in the middle.

01:37Okay.

01:39How long have we known this guy?

01:41I've never been firm in the middle.

01:42I have a mug shot that does not look very firm in the middle.

01:45You had a – you teased the big parody question.

01:51Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:52I was going to ask you about that.

01:53Because as fans, I look at it and go,

01:56there's a lot of parody in the NFL.

01:58And I wonder, as a coach, do you kind of utilize that

02:02and saying, hey, listen, it's wide open.

02:06If we play the way we're supposed to play,

02:08we can play with anybody.

02:10I know – I feel like it was a little different

02:12when New England was successful back in the days.

02:14It was very difficult to beat them.

02:16They seemed like they were ahead of everybody else.

02:20But I don't see a team like that in the NFL.

02:23And I wonder if that's a message that you give to the players at times.

02:26Well, the message is that you have to play good

02:29to give yourself a chance to win.

02:30And if you play bad, you're guaranteed to lose.

02:33That's the message.

02:34And we believe that we can play with anybody

02:37when we do the things the right way

02:39and play to our identity and play complementary

02:44and all those things.

02:45So that's the National Football League.

02:47I don't think that that's any surprise

02:48on how you try to win.

02:52Going on the road is going to be even more difficult

02:54in handling that environment

02:56and being able to operate offensively in that environment.

03:01All right, Coach.

03:02Did you get to talk to Mark Wahlberg at all yesterday?

03:04No.

03:05No, no words.

03:05I did not see that.

03:07No, we didn't cross paths.

03:09All right.

03:10Top three favorite Wahlberg films before you go?

03:14Departed count.

03:15Yeah.

03:15Departed.

03:15Fantastic.

03:16Do you prefer the departed over the town?

03:20Or do you think the town is a...

03:22Point flip.

03:23Point flip on them.

03:24Yeah.

03:25Yeah.

03:25All right.

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