Mike Vrabel often emphasized winning in the second half and taking advantage of bad football. The Patriots did neither of those things in their Week 1 loss to the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday.

The coach, making his debut with New England , said after the game he wasn’t necessarily surprised by the second half of the game, but noted it’s going to challenge the culture and the leadership.

“I just want to see now we’ll see where we’re at. We’ll see what kind of football team we have, what kind of leaders we have to be able to come back in here and get to work,” Vrabel said. “And I think that’ll be the true test. We always talk about culture and everything else. We’ll see where we’re at as a culture and as a team. And if we have guys that want to work and stick together, it’ll be a big

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