Mike Vrabel
Mike Vrabel
Michael George Vrabelis a former American football linebacker and current linebackers coach for the Houston Texans in the National Football League. He played college football at Ohio State University, where he earned consensus All-American honors. He was chosen by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the third round of the 1997 NFL Draft. He also played professionally for the New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs. After spending three years coaching linebackers and defensive linemen at Ohio State, Vrabel joined the Texans...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth14 August 1975
CityAkron, OH
Since he's been here, ... he's been the heart and soul of our defense.
Since he?s been here, he?s been the heart and soul of our defense. I don?t know what the situation is, but hopefully it?s nothing serious.
This is something that I'm sure has been thought about and has been planned. He'll be ready to go.
It's always good to win, because a win in this league is worth a lot. We can play so much better than that. But this is our football team. No matter who's not here, this is it. The team we suited up tonight is the team we've got all year. We've got to accept that and get on with it.
This will be a great test. It?s a division opponent, so there?s a lot of familiarity from the head coach right on down. This is a team that?s physical and has gone on the record as saying they want to play physical, dominate people and run the football, and it shows. They are doing that. It?s impressive, so it?s going to be a huge challenge.
Win, lose, win, lose . . . we've been doing that all year. We've got to start stringing a few of these together.
We lost last week. We had to bounce back. It so happened it was the Pittsburgh Steelers.
We do seem to be able to handle these situations pretty well.
You look over there and guys are warming up the whole game.
We'll find out ... as this season progresses. We've always had the ability to change things simply to give us the best chance to win. It's not done just to get a guy into the game.
We got to 10 wins and I still think there are things we need to tighten up.
When we went to a 4-3, it gave them some problems. We're going to make changes every week -- between series and on the fly.
When we went to the 4-3, I thought we gave them some problems. We're going to make changes every week on the fly. We've got a lot of different ways of being aggressive.
The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.