According to former New England Patriots kicker Adam Vinatieri, Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Vrabel was quite the trash talker when the two played together years ago.
Vrabel and Vinatieri were teammates with the Patriots from 2001 through 2005 and won three Super Bowls together — and it was apparently commonplace for players in that locker room to trade barbs.
In an interview on “The Pat McAfee Show,” Vinatieri called Vrabel “the king” of trash talking his own teammates.
“The amount of verbal jousting in that locker room was absolutely ridiculous… Vrabel was the king of it, but we had Rodney Harrison and a bunch of those guys,” Vinatieri said. “That locker room was something special. Willie McGinest and some of those guys. I mean to tell you what, if you had thin skin, you’d get run right out of the building there. So, it was crazy.”
Vrabel began his career with the Pittsburgh Steelers after being drafted by the team in the third round of the 1997 NFL draft, and after moving on from the Patriots he spent the final two seasons of his career with the Kansas City Chiefs.
Since taking over as head coach of the Titans in 2018, Vrabel has led the franchise to four straight winning seasons, three straight playoff appearances, two division titles, and a trip to the AFC Championship Game in 2019.
The expectation is that Vrabel will receive an extension at some point. His current contract runs through the 2022 campaign.
