After 4 to 13 consecutive seasons, the New England Patriots hope to quickly turn the page under the new head coach Mike Trébel.
“I think there is an excitement. There is an energy,” Truebel told journalists on Tuesday while the team’s off -season program started. “I think there is a desire for players who enter and want to improve, want to know the new players and those they know from last year, the coaches and everything else. We are constantly trying to build this every day.”
Truebel, who played for the Patriots from 2001 to 2008 and led to the Tennessee Titans from 2018-23, replaces Jerod Mayo. Mayo only led to a season after having succeeded Bill Belichick, winner of the Super Bowl.
Currently, Vrabel said that the Patriots are trying to join the second-year Drake Maye quarterrier and the rest of the list in a new system before the compulsory minicamp next month.
“I think everyone has worked extremely hard, including Drake, to pick up what we want to do offensively and defensively,” said Truebel. “Now, it should start to translate on the training ground in a spring setting, without pads, and I think we have started. We spent a positive day. We were able to mix speed stuff and competitive things at one point.”
Although it is contactless sessions, Truebel said that there were still things he wanted to see in each practice.
“That we enter and leave the group, that there are clean substitutions, that there is communication,” he started. “You hear the defense to make checks when someone on the offensive moves or motions. There is coordination, and the offensive moves urgently and the game clock is not sitting for four seconds. All operational things.
“And then there must obviously be a level of execution when we are in speed, then when we arrive at jogging, can we practice at a tempo which is less than 100% and always remove something.”
Truebel has confirmed that the Patriots will organize joint practices during the training camp later this summer with the commanders of Washington and the Vikings of Minnesota.
He also gave an update on the Rhamondrian ball carrier Stevenson, who faces the death of his father in March.
“We are extremely happy to have him with us. I have been in constant communication with him, and obviously our thoughts and our prayers are with him and his family when they heal and they cry, and I want to be part of it to help him and get to know him,” said Stevenson, also praise his efforts and his performance on the field and the performance of last season.
“It will be a large part of what we do, and we will just have to determine where it is when it is back here,” said Trébel about Stevenson.
New England opens the regular season at home against Las Vegas raiders on September 7.
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