FOXBORO — Mike Vrabel says his history there is unimportant.
Interesting, he’ll admit, but unimportant.
And it’s a clever deflection, we should admit.
But come on.
Do you really believe Vrabel’s return to Tennessee means nothing?
That he wants anything less than to rub the Titans’ faces in their owner’s mistake this Sunday?
And that his personal feelings, as the commanding leader of this organization, could ever be separated from the Patriots’ business?
Of course, Vrabel won’t admit to chasing revenge, but anyone remotely familiar with him knows that’s exactly what he wants because that’s part of who he is.
Clever, caustic, caring and competitively ruthless.
Patriots great Rodney Harrison once told a reporter that Vrabel is an a—hole, then took a beat before adding he’s “one of th