{"id":182412,"date":"2025-08-28T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/182412\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:32:10","slug":"mike-vrabel-news-to-me-if-marcus-epps-and-kendrick-bourne-asked-for-their-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/182412\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Vrabel: &#8220;News to me&#8221; if Marcus Epps and Kendrick Bourne asked for their release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the veterans who didn\u2019t make the Patriots\u2019 53-man roster were safety Marcus Epps and wide receiver Kendrick Bourne. But talk that neither player wanted to stay in New England was met with skepticism by Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel.<\/p>\n<p>When a reporter asked Vrabel if the Patriots granted requests from players who asked for their release, Vrabel answered, \u201cI don\u2019t know who you\u2019re referring to, I guess, specifically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the reporter said he was referring to Epps and Bourne, Vrabel suggested that perhaps it was a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c1JRCWVB2xY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Costanza-style preemptive breakup<\/a> situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s news to me,\u201d Vrabel said. \u201cI think we just, again, try to put the roster together. I guess when it doesn\u2019t work out, you break up with somebody, your girlfriend doesn\u2019t want to be with you, and then you say, \u2018Well, I don\u2019t want to be with you either.\u2019 I\u2019m not going to get into all that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When a reporter started to ask a follow-up question, Vrabel cut him off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just said I\u2019m not going to get into it,\u201d Vrabel said. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to go back and forth here. We\u2019re trying to build the roster. We\u2019ve got to move on with some guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Epps quickly <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/marcus-epps-returns-to-eagles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">signed with the Eagles<\/a>. Bourne remains unsigned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among the veterans who didn\u2019t make the Patriots\u2019 53-man roster were safety Marcus Epps and wide receiver Kendrick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-182412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115106411089841390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}