Welcome to Season 14, Episode 4 of the Unconventional Preview, a serious yet lighthearted, nostalgia-tinted look at the Patriots’ weekly matchup . . .
Patriots fans have a very specific picture of what a Mike Vrabel team should look like.
It should be smart, savvy, and disciplined. It should be protective of the football, adept at clock management, and rarely penalized.
It should look, in short, exactly like Vrabel’s Titans team that bounced the Patriots from the postseason and ended the Tom Brady era with a 20-13 victory in the wild-card round in January 2020.