These New England Patriots are swiftly becoming a reflection of their new head coach. Who knows when this team’s ready to win, but all five signings the first 24 hours of NFL free agency should bring to life everything Mike Vrabel preaches to the team as a whole.

On Substack Live, we continued the conversation with Andrew Callahan, Patriots beat reporter at The Boston Herald and host of the Pats Interference podcast.

* Milton Williams broke the bank. What’s his ceiling?

* New England was spurned by Chris Godwin, and that’s been a pattern at wide receiver. Without a doubt, this is the worst receiving corps in the NFL. There is one veteran available who makes sense.

* And the most important person in the building is obviously Drake Maye. The Patriots would love it if receivers warm up to the idea playing with their young QB exactly as John Brown, Cole Beasley and Stefon Diggs flocked to Josh Allen in 2019 and 2020. How realistic is an Allen-like ascent in New England?

This organization has a vibrant pulse which, I suppose, is all Vrabel can ask for right now.

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More on the Patriots at Go Long:

Violence, required: These are now Mike Vrabel's New England Patriots

Here’s a profile of Carlton Davis from 2023:

‘We’re going to wreck shit:’ Carlton Davis bows to no man

Also, Bob McGinn wrote this on Vrabel a few years back:

McGinn Files: There is only one Mike Vrabel

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