Patriots coach Mike Vrabel was a player. He knows the difference between playing on real grass and playing on fake grass. His team plays its home games on fake grass, even though the stadium had real grass for the World Cup.<\/p>\n
Vrabel was asked about the issue of real grass vs. fake grass during his first press conference of 2026 training camp. He avoided addressing the question.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy take is we would play anywhere we possibly have to,\u201d Vrabel said. \u201cThat\u2019s my take. It\u2019s the kind of football team that I want to create \u2014 one that doesn\u2019t make excuses, that doesn\u2019t care what the environment is. We\u2019re going to go open the season in a great environment in Seattle, and we\u2019re going to play on grass, we\u2019re going to play on turf, and it\u2019s going to rain, it\u2019s going to snow. There\u2019s a lot of things that are going to come up, and my job is to make sure that we\u2019re prepared for whatever does happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s fine, but what does he think about the fact that 92 percent of the players prefer real grass? Does he prefer real grass? Does he always practice on real grass, even when the Patriots are preparing to play a game on fake grass?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a tough spot for any coach of any team whose owners have decided to play home games on the surface that the players don\u2019t prefer. The fact that Vrabel didn\u2019t answer the question says plenty about what he personally thinks about the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patriots coach Mike Vrabel was a player. He knows the difference between playing on real grass and playing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-783102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}