During an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, ESPN's NFL insider Adam Schefter discussed Vrabel's return to the franchise and indicated that executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf was going to report to Vrabel. In short, as Schefter put it, "Vrabes is the man," in New England, when McAfee asked about the front-office hierarchy.

ESPN’s Adam Schefter told the WEEI Afternoon Show on Wednesday that the New England Patriots front office is “there to serve [Mike Vrabel],” and that Eliot Wolf and Vrabel need to “figure out how well they work together,

Mike Vrabel is off the board for the New York Jets, unsurprisingly. The New England Patriots wasted little time and hired their former player as their head coach, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter: Homecoming: Mike Vrabel and the Patriots reached a multi-year agreement to make him New England’s next head coach, per sources.