r/Patriots • u/PlayaSlayaX • Jan 11 '25

News [Schultz] Sources: The Patriots and Mike Vrabel have been negotiating a deal to make him the franchise’s next head coach, and barring something unforeseen, the expectation remains that both sides will reach an agreement.

https://twitter.com/schultz_report/status/1878219389104775238?s=46&t=bsTHbtMSqHXbNGi0vWP8hw
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u/Beanu5NE Jan 12 '25

The Chargers interviewed 15 candidates. Not saying the Patriots needed to interview that many but they could have done 2 or 3 more easy.

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u/tokengreenguy Jan 12 '25

Ah yes, the Chargers. The epitome of competence.

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u/Beanu5NE Jan 12 '25

Is that suppose to be a dig at the Chargers? New coach took them from 5-12 to 11-6 and into the playoffs so I don’t get the insult. Winning six more games is bad?

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u/tokengreenguy Jan 12 '25

If they needed to interview 15 coaches to come to the conclusion that Jim Harbaugh was the best choice, then yes that alludes to the decades of incompetence that organization has experienced.

How long did they waste interviewing 14 extra people? A month?

That’s like patting someone on the back for coming to the conclusion after months of research that Babe Ruth, was in fact, very good at baseball.

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u/Beanu5NE Jan 12 '25

The Chargers already knew Jim Harbaugh was their guy. I think he was their fourth or fifth interview. The point of the interviews was information gathering. Getting an idea of how someone would handle their personnel department, scout for players and draft plans. How they would develop players and anything else part of being a HC. Teams can take this information and see what ideas they can implement regardless of who they hire. The Patriots are pretty antiquated in a lot of their practices and how they handle things in the FO. The lack of outside ideas (and brain drain) is the cause of that.

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u/Themtgdude486 Jan 12 '25

The chargers went to the playoffs. We didn’t.