{"id":195642,"date":"2025-09-03T02:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195642\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T02:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:16:10","slug":"mike-vrabel-has-a-thought-on-bill-belichicks-college-football-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195642\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Vrabel has a thought on Bill Belichick&#8217;s college-football debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patriots coach Mike Vrabel speaks his mind. About anything. About everything.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on WEEI\u2019s The Greg Hill Show, Vrabel was asked about the struggles of Vrabel\u2019s former coach, Bill Belichick, in his debut at North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou coached in college, it takes a while, don\u2019t you think, to get a program going?\u201d Hill said, via Ryan Phillips of SI.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Vrabel said, \u201cUrban Meyer won 12 of his first 12 games at Ohio State, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college-football\/mike-vrabel-belichick-urban-meyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">so it didn\u2019t take him long<\/a>. That\u2019s my experience in college football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vrabel worked as the defensive line coach in Columbus, during Meyer\u2019s first year with the Buckeyes.<\/p>\n<p>The comments come against the backdrop of an ugly relationship between Belichick and Vrabel\u2019s current employer, Patriots owner Robert Kraft. And they arise after months of Vrabel, and everyone else, witnessing Belichick become the thing that he would have mercilessly mocked \u2014 a constant distraction to the program.<\/p>\n<p>Credit to Vrabel for not tiptoeing around the truth. Belichick, and his consigliere, Mike Lombardi, brought in 70 new players. Those players, on Monday night, was not good enough. Not even close.<\/p>\n<p>Other coaches who are new to a program have gotten off to a much better start. For Belichick, it couldn\u2019t have been much worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patriots coach Mike Vrabel speaks his mind. About anything. About everything. Appearing on WEEI\u2019s The Greg Hill Show,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-195642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115137962616593651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195642","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=195642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}