As expected, the Patriots hired Lions DL coach Terrell Williams where he will be reunited with HC Mike Vrabel after he spent six years as Vrabel’s defensive coordinator in Tennessee.
“The respect I have for him, the way that he goes about his business, the way he treats people, the way he treats coaches and players, he has a great grasp of it,” Vrabel told Zack Rosenblatt about Williams. “He got along and had relationships with offensive coaches, special teams coaches, defensive coaches. He knows what he believes. He’s a good football coach, a great husband, great father. I relied on Big T a lot to help me on guys that I couldn’t reach or I was having trouble with or he had a better relationship with than I did. He cared about the team. It wasn’t like he just cared about the D-line.”
“He cared about the team immensely, it was important to him,” Vrabel added. “When we won he was a big part of that and he shared in that excitement and it bothered him when we lost. He worked hard at it. His group was always prepared. … He had them ready to go. He had a good relationship with coaches on our staff, he helped young coaches develop and they would work on the third down plan or whatever we were trying to do. And I always appreciated that.”
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