{"id":289341,"date":"2026-05-12T09:51:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289341\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:51:43","slug":"strong-first-impression-for-mike-vrabels-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289341\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Strong First Impression&#8217; For Mike Vrabel&#8217;s Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Morton&#8217;s addition to New England&#8217;s roster became problematic, because the Patriots were clearly taking a flyer on a player they liked even though he presents little upside for the organization,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25423627-making-sense-2026-nfl-drafts-worst-picks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sobleski writes<\/a>. &#8220;The Patriots could have still addressed quarterback and gotten someone else with more growth potential to eventually become the team&#8217;s primary backup quarterback.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Morton&#8217;s addition to New England&#8217;s roster became problematic, because the Patriots were clearly taking a flyer on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-289341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}