New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel makes weekly in-season appearances on WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Present,” a present that spent a lot of September detailing the struggles endured by Patriots beginning quarterback Drake Maye ever since he tossed three interceptions within the fourth quarter of New England’s season-opening loss on the Seattle Seahawks.
As shared by Chris Rosvoglou of The Spun and the Savageboston X/Twitter account, Hill advised throughout Wednesday’s version of his program that the working relationship between Vrabel and Maye is not all that nice this fall.
A lingering “problem” between Drake Maye, Mike Vrabel hovering over the Patriots?
“We had been whispered to about this,” Hill defined. “We talked about it yesterday on this very present. We talked about being whispered to about a difficulty between the pinnacle coach and the quarterback, which fits again, for those who imagine this particular person who’s an insider, he is very a lot an insider, it goes again to [day one].”
Vrabel accepted the Patriots job in January 2025, lower than a 12 months after the earlier teaching workers had a job in New England choosing Maye within the first spherical of the 2024 NFL Draft. Vrabel and Maye then helped the Patriots full a visit to the Tremendous Bowl, and Maye completed second in regular-season MVP voting behind Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford.
Extra lately, Maye grew to become responsible
for a league-worst seven whole turnovers over the primary three weeks of the season. He additionally reportedly “befuddled” individuals throughout the Patriots for the way in which he declined on a number of events this week to strongly deny that the injury to his throwing shoulder he handled in early 2026 is affecting him this fall.
Is Drake Maye not considered one of Mike Vrabel’s “guys?”
“Regardless of what Mike Vrabel has mentioned publicly, it goes again to Drake Maye not being his man,” Hill added. “Mike Vrabel is a ‘his man’ type of coach. Since he received right here, he’s gone out and gotten all of ‘his guys.'”
Historical past reveals that successful can remedy all that’s ailing a participant or/and a workforce going via a troublesome time. That mentioned, it appears seemingly that Vrabel and Maye shall be requested about this present section throughout media availabilities because the 1-2 Patriots put together to play on the rival Buffalo Bills (3-0) this coming Sunday.
