FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Mike Vrabel downplayed his upcoming return to Tennessee, where his surging New England Patriots team visits his former team, the Titans, on Sunday.

Vrabel served as Titans head coach from 2018-23 and posted a 56-48 record (including playoffs), which included division titles in 2020 and 2021, three playoff berths, and a trip to the AFC Championship Game in the 2019 season. Vrabel, who earned AP Coach of the Year honors in 2021, was fired by owner Amy Adams Strunk after Tennessee posted a 6-11 record in 2023.

"It will be nice to see some people that I haven't seen in a few years that helped us win -- players and staff," Vrabel said Monday, the day after the Patriots' 25-19 win over the Saints -- the team's third victory in a row. "But we've got a huge job to do here

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