Robert Kraft has said time and again over the past year, “You can’t win in this league if you don’t have it right at coach and quarterback.” (Or some variation of that.)
It’s not a groundbreaking opinion. But nobody is more uniquely suited to appreciate the truth of it than Kraft, who owned through an unprecedented stretch of Coach-QB excellence in New England that will never be matched.
Given the swiftness of the Patriots' move from Jerod Mayo to Mike Vrabel, it’s clear Kraft is jonesing to get that feeling back.
Now that the Patriots have the 2021 AP Coach of the Year (Vrabel) and their quarterback of the future (Drake Maye) in place, how do they stack up to the rest of the league?