Jones & Keefe: After hiring Mike Vrabel, there is no excuses for the Patriots

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00:00Now you do have a guy who I think is an adult in the room

00:03You have a guy who's done it before there should be no surprises. And here's what I'll say about rebel. There's no excuses now

00:11There's no excuses for the team to go out under a chief. He's been the coach of the year

00:15He's been to an AFC title game. He knows how it works in New England

00:20So great you hired the adult in the room. You hired the leader of men, you know him. Well, no surprises

00:26I will not I will not entertain any excuses. There should be no surprises this year. There should be no

00:33Disciplinary issues picking the the wind the wrong way in overtime

00:36No, you know the lack of aggression one week and then being overly aggressive the next week. There shouldn't be any of that

00:43There's no room for any of that. So if you're telling me that's what you're getting in variable

00:46I want to see all those things this year

00:48Which means you can't go out this year and suck again and vr able if he's elevating your floor

00:53You better really elevate the floor and you better be a competitive team this year if you do that

00:57Vr able will look like the right higher

00:59Yeah, if you're winning four or five games again, then I wish you leaned in on somebody with a higher ceiling

01:03Yeah, there's there's definitely no excuse for that

01:05Also you get into they have a last-place schedule once again and you play a bunch of bombs like they should

01:10Even with just a little help in free agency now

01:13We're hoping for a lot of help

01:14But even with a little bit of help you should be able to turn around and be closer to 500

01:19It'll be interesting to see

01:20whenever the futures come out and like what the over-under is so this year is four and a half and they hit the under even

01:26With the you know fake win in the last game of the season

01:29So I wonder where it's gonna be like it's gonna be six and a half because of rebel

01:33Is it gonna be even higher than that?

01:35Like we'll have to we'll have to wait and see but I look at it

01:37It's kind of like a B plus like a B plus higher

01:41You hear some people talking about like a plus plus like this is the guy pats are back

01:45B plus for me like it's it's good

01:48There's a lot of worse candidates out there much worse candidates. I would have shot for a little bit of that higher

01:55Ceiling, but I think a lot of it has to do with

01:58Robert Kraft is so upset and he has himself to blame for a lot of it

02:02but since Tom Brady left where they've been at, you know one playoff appearance no playoff wins and

02:09a couple of last-place finishes like just a just a disaster that

02:14Yeah, it'd be great to win another Super Bowl

02:16But you need to make the playoffs like you need to be a relevant team again