Titans head coach says he does not want to rely on talent, He wants to rely on coaching

Mike Vrabel was not the biggest or fastest football player, but he was dominant on the football field for the New England Patriots. Now that he has began coaching, he wants to rely on the fundamentals that allowed him to be successful.

In an interview with the media, Vrabel was very up front about talent on his roster.

“Well, I don’t want to rely on talent,” Vrabel said. “I don’t want to be a coach that relies on talent. I want to be – I want to coach fundamentals, technique. I want to teach. I want to make sure that they play with great effort. And I know that we’re talented.

“So my job is to not try to rely on talent. I want to try to coach. There’s a certain way that we want to play the game, and when we do, we’re a good football team. And when we turn it over, and we do, we don’t protect the guy with football, whether that’s a quarterback or a running back or receiver, we’re not very good. We can’t operate like that.”

This is actually what makes a great coach. I know people are looking at this as a shot at Ryan Tannehill because he is not a Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, or a big time quarterback, but he continually gets the job done.

The Titans are one of the hardest teams to face, because they can have a team that does not quit. Vrabel does a great job at coaching, I have to give him that.

If you can play error-free football through four quarters your chance of winning are extremely high. So fundamentals mean a lot in the game of football.

After reading this quote, I would suit up for Mike Vrabel.

“Yeah, that’s what this National Football League is,” Vrabel said. “I don’t want to just roll the ball out there and say, ‘Well, let’s hope we have the better players.’ That’s why we come to work, is to try to find ways to develop guys, to give them one more thing.

“If you can find one way to make Kevin Byard play better than he did last year or Jeffery Simmons or Derrick Henry, right? I mean, every single player, that’s our job as coaches. So, I just don’t want to have a cop-out and say, ‘Well, you know, they’re better.’ I don’t buy that.

“We want to give them the knowledge to be able to go out there and do their job and most especially give them the confidence to go out there and do their job.”

What do you think? I like this approach.