00:00What Mike Vrabel has done is remarkable.
00:05I think if the argument can be made,
00:07he is right now the best and most prepared coach in football.
00:11I don't know how many coaches would have been situationally aware enough
00:17to just kind of manage that game yesterday in the second half
00:21when the weather got bad
00:22because you watch Sean McVay make mistakes in that Seahawks game.
00:27I've seen Mike McDonald make mistakes all year.
00:30I don't know that Mike Vrabel makes many mistakes in game,
00:34and that's maybe credit to Stretch as well for being upstairs and in his head,
00:37but the way in which Vrabel manages a game is so important.
00:43Managed it by relying on his defense,
00:45knowing that he had full faith in his defense.
00:50When people tell you that the only thing that really matters is a quarterback,
00:54they're wrong.
00:54Mike Vrabel's proof of that.
00:56Coaching actually matters in the NFL still, and it will.
00:59If you can win games like this, coaching will always matter.
01:02All right, Sean.
01:03Curtis, good morning.
01:04Good morning, Greg.
01:05So the Patriots now will be playing in their 12th Super Bowl,
01:10which means they have played as an organization in 20%,
01:14a fifth of all Super Bowls ever played,
01:17which is staggeringly crazy for an organization that sucked
01:20for its first 30 years of existence.
01:22And the thing that stood out to me in talking to Ken about this over the weekend
01:26was how Robert Kraft is up for the Hall of Fame next week in Santa Clara.
01:31They'll do the voting.
01:32Bill Belichick's up as well.
01:34I think the odds of them both being elected in are pretty good.
01:36And Robert Kraft now has gone with three different coaches and quarterbacks
01:44to three Super Bowls.
01:46He started with Bledsoe and Parcells, then obviously Brady and Belichick,
01:50and now Vrabel and May.
01:52And I go back to the end of last season because to everybody it seemed like a very easy decision,
01:58which is that Gerard Mayo didn't work out and they needed to make a change.
02:02But look across the NFL, the amount of people that had an opportunity to hire Mike Vrabel,
02:06who Shime is spot on about.
02:08He was the MVP yesterday.
02:10And they had him on the Browns coaching staff.
02:14The Jets could have gotten an interview with him.
02:16Everybody was, he was there for anybody to hire.
02:19And he fell in your lap in this way.
02:21And it is awesome.
02:23Just the awareness, what to challenge, what not to challenge.
02:26The timeout with one second left in the half,
02:29where he was, that was a great job by Romo and Nance, I thought,
02:32of highlighting where Vrabel positioned himself when Drake May smartly slid
02:37at the timeout was called.
02:38Yes, yes.
02:39That, that, obviously they didn't hit the field goal, so it's sort of forgotten.
02:42But there were plays like that all season long,
02:45where the second you thought something might be happening,
02:48Vrabel had already reacted to it.
02:50And I think Kraft, obviously, and bringing in Vrabel, getting rid of Mayo,
02:54and the situational awareness of this football team
02:56is what I think will lead them past the Seahawks.
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