FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Quick-hit thoughts and notes around the New England Patriots and the NFL:
1. Peppers & Vrabel: Safety Jabrill Peppers plans to coach when his playing career is finished, and he has kept a notebook through his nine seasons in the NFL highlighting things he wants to emphasize in that role. The notebook now reflects how Peppers sees a lot of himself in coach Mike Vrabel, who is in his first year with the Patriots.
"It's crazy because his first meeting with us, when he talked about establishing the identity, I only had to add maybe one or two things [to the notebook]," Peppers said after a recent training camp practice.