The 2025 offseason in Foxborough was positive and professional under Mike Vrabel and a new regime. Vrabel instilled a new culture and oversaw free agent signings that upgraded the roster, including two offensive linemen, two receivers, a defensive tackle, two edge players, two linebackers, and a cornerback. The draft added three or four potential starters, and a roster housecleaning is underway. A report that 2024 second-round pick Ja'Lynn Polk would go on injured reserve was leaked without Vrabel's approval, triggering his public anger and a characterization of leakers as "rats"; Chris Cwik cited an X post by Carlos Lopez about the leak.
The 2025 offseason, by all indications, has been a positive one in Foxborough. Led by a new regime and Mike Vrabel, the amateurish 2024 offseason was supplanted by one of high professionalism. Vrabel's influence was seen in every aspect of the critically important offseason activities, including instilling a new and improved culture. In free agency, he brought in a plethora of new players, all of whom are upgrades over the people they'll replace, some of whom are already gone.
Regardless, all seemed to be going smoothly until recently, when it was reported that 2024 second-round pick (and flop) Ja'Lynn Polk was injured and would go on injured reserve. Nothing unusual there except that, evidently, Vrabel wasn't in the loop and hadn't given the go-ahead to release that information. That's when all heck broke loose. In his play "Hamlet", Shakespeare has the protagonist say, "Something is rotten in the State of Denmark".
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