During an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, ESPN's NFL insider Adam Schefter discussed Vrabel's return to the franchise and indicated that executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf was going to report to Vrabel. In short, as Schefter put it, "Vrabes is the man," in New England, when McAfee asked about the front-office hierarchy.

The New England Patriots have locked down Mike Vrabel as the team's new head coach for a multi-year deal. According to NFL Insider Adam Schefter, "Homecoming: Mike Vrabel and the Patriots reached a multi-year agreement to make him New England's next head coach,

The pending move was expected, but the Patriots still interviewed Lions OC Ben Johnson after already interviewing Vrabel