Patriots' Tommy DeVito reveals coach Mike Vrabel's confident Super Bowl message

The New England Patriots are astir to beryllium successful their 12th Super Bowl successful franchise history, but lone a fistful of players connected this year's roster person ever experienced the "Big Game" successful their careers. 

Good happening they person a caput manager who knows a happening oregon 2 astir what it takes to triumph it. 

Mike Vrabel has had a imagination archetypal twelvemonth coaching his erstwhile squad who helium helped triumph 3 Super Bowls during the aboriginal 2000s. His leadership, on with the remainder of his coaching staff, has been important successful turning a four-win squad for the past 2 NFL seasons into a squad worthy capable of reaching the pinnacle of shot erstwhile more. 

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New England Patriots caput manager Mike Vrabel celebrates aft the AFC title crippled against the Denver Broncos astatine Empower Field At Mile High connected Jan. 25, 2026 successful Denver, Colorado. (Cooper Neill/Getty Images)

So, what precisely is the connection Vrabel has for the Patriots arsenic they hole for the Seattle Seahawks implicit the adjacent week?

"We are going to the Super Bowl to triumph the Super Bowl," backup backmost Tommy DeVito told Fox News Digital, portion discussing his concern with Progressive. "That's it. We're not conscionable saying, 'Oh, we made it to the Super Bowl. Cool.' No, we're going determination to triumph it."

Going from a four-win squad conscionable a twelvemonth agone to AFC champions is rather the leap for immoderate franchise, but it doesn't daze anyone that Vrabel isn't contented with conscionable that victory. He wants to triumph it all, and truthful does the remainder of the team.

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Only 5 players — Carlton Davis III, Christian Elliss, Mack Hollins, Austin Hooper and Milton Williams — person had immoderate benignant of acquisition with a Super Bowl successful their careers. The remainder of the Patriots' roster is bare to scope their archetypal rings, including DeVito.

"As overmuch arsenic everyone wants to beryllium successful that game, you privation to beryllium connected the winning broadside of it. That different broadside I’m definite is not excessively overmuch amusive after," helium said.

DeVito's play began connected the New York Giants' roster, wherever helium became a fan-favorite backmost aft needing to measurement up successful 2023 and 2024 owed to Daniel Jones dealing with injuries. He joined the Patriots' quarterbacks country aft the Giants got crowded with the additions of rookie Jaxson Dart, Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston.

During his clip successful his location authorities of New Jersey — the Giants' installation is successful the aforesaid parking batch arsenic MetLife Stadium successful East Rutherford — DeVito understood the pedigree of a Super Bowl-winning franchise. But adjacent though 2 of those Vince Lombardi Trophies successful the hallway were wins implicit the Patriots, there's much hardware successful Foxborough.

Tommy Devito of the New England Patriots warms up anterior to the crippled against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers astatine Raymond James Stadium connected Nov. 9, 2025 successful Tampa, Florida. (Mike Carlson/Getty Images)

And those didn't travel easy.

That word, "easy," is 1 that has been thrown retired astir this year's Patriots tally backmost to the Super Bowl. Yes, their regular-season spot of docket was adjacent the bottommost of the league (30th), but their NFL Playoffs travel hasn't been. The Patriots faced 3 of the league's top-five defenses, including their AFC Championship Game matchup with the No. 1-seeded Denver Broncos connected the road.

DeVito admitted the squad inevitably sees the chatter astir however radical judge the Patriots person had an casual roadworthy to this point, but helium thinks they're mistaken.

"Everything revolves astir your phone, whether you’re scrolling looking astatine cars, oregon watches, oregon dogs, oregon immoderate else, you’re going to spot a Patriots-something astatine immoderate point. Back location erstwhile we played the Texans, each the analysts, reporters — everybody picked the Texans to win. It’s like, OK, if we had an casual schedule, wherefore are you picking them to win?" DeVito questioned.

Tommy Devito of the New England Patriots and Drake Maye lukewarm up earlier the NFL 2025 crippled betwixt Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots astatine Gillette Stadium connected Sept. 21, 2025 successful Foxborough, Massachusetts. (Jaiden Tripi/Getty Images)

"People deliberation it’s precise easy, but not each teams person to play Josh Allen doubly and it astir came down to a 3rd team. And past to spell connected the road, I deliberation they said we were the archetypal clip to spell 9-0 connected the road. Playing connected the roadworthy is not easy, nary substance what. No substance who the hostile is, the situation is hostile, it’s caller weather, oregon immoderate it is. It decidedly not casual winning games successful the NFL, particularly connected the roadworthy doing it arsenic galore times arsenic we had."

At the extremity of the day, nary substance however hard oregon casual the opponents person been, the Patriots are backmost wherever the franchise expected them to beryllium with Vrabel starring the charge. Now, it comes down to 1 much game, 1 that Vrabel knows requires eventual focus, effort and camaraderie.

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"It doesn’t substance what happened successful the game, who played, oregon immoderate it is. As agelong arsenic that file says 1-0 aft that week, it’s each that matters," DeVito said.

The Patriots volition effort to spell 1-0 1 past clip connected Feb. 8 successful Levi's Stadium.

Patriots QB Tommy DeVito helps phantasy shot loser fulfill punishment for league successful Boston. (Progressive)

NEEDING A BACKUP IN REAL LIFE

DeVito considers himself the eventual backup for the Patriots, but he’s besides 1 disconnected the field. 

As portion of Progressive’s Backup campaign, DeVito amazed one, well, unlucky instrumentality who had the phantasy shot punishment of having to acceptable up a lemonade basal successful freezing acold Boston for a day. 

DeVito showed up and amazed the phantasy shot loser, and though it was a chilly nighttime aft each the snowfall that poured down portion the Patriots were beating the Broncos, they sold retired of product.

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"It was awesome," DeVito said of the nighttime successful Boston. "We had a batch of amusive and got a batch of large contented retired of it, arsenic good arsenic immoderate bystanders who mightiness not person known what was going on. But they got immoderate lemonade successful immoderate five-degree weather. So, we made it work. 

"Progressive has been large up to this point. They’ve been a ton of amusive to enactment with."

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