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As fissures in the Patriots locker room become visible, Arcand asks the question: Are there two sets of rules for Mike Vrabel's players?

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00:00it seems like from their public statements that it's a little more fractured than that.
00:04I'll take Kearns' word for it.
00:06However, I do think that immaturity, emotional outbursts after bad games,
00:11whatever you want to call it, and I don't think they were major,
00:14it's not like anybody was throwing a tantrum over here,
00:16but you did hear some pointed commentary that was pointed inwards, not outwards.
00:23And boy, when you hear about that,
00:25it really does remind you just how different Mike Vrabel is from Bill Belichick.
00:31Because the 29 pre-snap penalty, I mean, that's just, that wouldn't have happened.
00:35The heads would have rolled by now.
00:37You know, he, Belichick did find patience for certain types of players,
00:41but he often was pretty impatient about stuff like that too.
00:44Vrabel, it seems like, is more impatient with players who aren't his guys,
00:48and his guys he gives a million extra chances to.
00:51His guys will get the benefit of the doubt.
00:55And that's a difference, I think, that you, the coldness that Bill operated with,
01:00I think, is definitely lacking here when it comes to stuff like that.
01:04The penalties, not being prepared, etc.
01:06I also don't know that Vrabel runs the team the same way,
01:09in terms of preparedness, in terms of situational football,
01:14in terms of a lot of things that Bill always really emphasized.
01:16And the reason I'm even making the comparison to Bill right now is because
01:19I think what Vrabel may be doing, and along with him, Drake May, is something very Belichickian.
01:24And that is turning their guns away from each other and pointing them out at us, at the media.
01:31Yes.
01:32That stupid, dumb media that Belichick hated so much,
01:36and Vrabel pretended to like for a little bit, like some people in the media, hates most of us.
01:41Really, I think, hates, like, the majority of us.
01:45And I think that he, May, and probably the rest of that group are going to turn their rifles outward
01:51and start looking at the real enemy, the media.
01:55The media who doesn't know what they're talking about.

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