{"id":264946,"date":"2025-11-06T05:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/264946\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T05:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:58:13","slug":"patriots-mike-vrabel-likens-nfl-trade-deadline-deals-to-being-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/264946\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots&#8217; Mike Vrabel likens NFL trade deadline deals to &#8216;being pregnant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trade in the NFL has been described in a lot of different ways.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The comparison that Mike Vrabel used on Wednesday may be a first, though.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots coach was fielding questions at the team\u2019s facility when a reporter asked if New England had gotten close to making any trades before the 4 p.m. deadline on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when Vrabel broke out a rather unique way to describe a trade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, first I would say that deals are like being pregnant \u2014 you either are or you aren\u2019t. There\u2019s no, like \u2026 it\u2019s either a deal or it\u2019s not, so I don\u2019t know how close you can be,\u201d Vrabel chimed in before the reporter could finish their question. \u201cI know that everyone worked hard and that we investigated and looked in and made phone calls and did what personnel departments do. In the end, we decided that this was what we were gonna do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37589194\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/new-england-patriots-head-coach-114684700_12d59f.jpg\" alt=\"New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel speaks at a press conference.\" class=\"wp-image-37589194\"  \/>Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel speaks after an NFL football game against the Atlanta Falcons, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, in Foxborough, Mass. AP<\/p>\n<p>There had been murmurs that the Patriots had been looking to add at the running back or wide receiver position.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jakobi Meyers, a name that the Patriots had been linked to, was dealt by <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/04\/sports\/nfl-trade-deadline-jaguars-acquiring-jakobi-meyers-from-raiders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Raiders to the Jaguars.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>And New England did end up sending safety Kyle Dugger to the Steelers and edge rusher Keion White to the 49ers prior to the deadline coming and going.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When Vrabel was asked if he ever thought about team being aggressive at the deadline, he said that he \u201cnever really looked at it that way.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37589195\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/atlanta-falcons-head-coach-raheem-114684349.jpg\" alt=\"Atlanta Falcons head coach Raheem Morris and New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel hug after the game.\" class=\"wp-image-37589195\"  \/>Atlanta Falcons head coach Raheem Morris and New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel hug after the game at Gillette Stadium. Brian Fluharty-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re trying to build a program, the same thing that we said when we got here,\u201d Vrabel said.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots have been a shock in the AFC at 7-2 on the season and sit atop the AFC East.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots will face the Buccaneers on Sunday at 1 p.m. at Raymond James Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trade in the NFL has been described in a lot of different ways.\u00a0 The comparison that Mike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,23065,1718,514,82],"class_list":["post-264946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mike-vrabel","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}