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Call it resilience if you want, or better, parrot the terminology Mike Vrabel used after the Patriots’ 33-27 victory over the Dolphins Sunday afternoon.
“We’re not frontrunners,’’ he said, sounding rather like a proud dad after his first win as Patriots coach, “and that’s a big thing in this league.”
Vrabel was talking about his team’s collective refusal in a back-and-forth game to mope or back down after the Dolphins hit them with a couple of big plays, and an early lead had slipped away.