Rob Gronkowski praises Patriots turnaround, says Titans firing Mike Vrabel was franchise-altering

This clip past year, the New England Patriots recovered themselves successful the midst of a controversy.

The squad had fired Jerod Mayo, practically handpicked by Bill Belichick to regenerate him, aft conscionable 1 season, albeit a 4-13 campaign.

Former Patriots called retired the squad for not giving Mayo a just shot, but aft replacing Mayo with Mike Vrabel, each is forgiven.

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Rob Gronkowski of the New England Patriots reacts against the Pittsburgh Steelers successful the archetypal 4th astatine Gillette Stadium connected Nov. 3, 2013, successful Foxboro, Massachusetts. (Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)

In Vrabel's archetypal play successful New England, the Patriots are backmost successful the Super Bowl, which they played successful 10 times nether Belichick.

"Winning cures everything. That’s been a known information since I’ve been successful the NFL, and it’s thing I learned tremendously," Rob Gronkowski, who called Mayo’s firing an "ugly situation," said successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital. "It cures players’ troubles disconnected the field, it truly does. Not each of it, but a batch of things. It tin cure a dismantled enactment — each of a sudden, you commencement winning, and you’re a well-put-together program. Winning virtually does cure all, and that’s wherefore it’s the full goal."

There’s nary question that Gronkowski, who won 3 Super Bowls with the Patriots, is pumped that the messiness successful New England has been cleaned up. While teaming up with Bounty, which has kept him cleanable from saucy buffalo wings during caller Super Bowl weeks, helium gave recognition to Bounty for besides cleaning up the slop successful Foxborough.

New England Patriots caput manager Mike Vrabel walks connected the tract earlier an NFL shot crippled against the New Orleans Saints, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025, successful New Orleans. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

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"In the offseason, Bounty came successful and cleaned up the mess. They cleaned up the roster, they cleaned up the guys that shouldn’t beryllium connected the team, they cleaned house, brought successful a batch of escaped agents. Let’s lend the full play to Bounty," Gronkowski joked.

"You can’t person shot without wings, and you can’t person wings without Bounty, truthful it relates to maine each implicit the place," helium added. "I'm a helping guy. I'm from Buffalo, my buffalo wings volition beryllium everlastingly with me, and I’m a shot guy. Eleven years successful the NFL and present I'm an expert for FOX, truthful shot has been with me. And past Bounty insubstantial towels conscionable cleans up my messiness portion I'm watching the game, getting each saucy each implicit the place. I was a maniac disconnected the tract and I ever cleaned up my mess. That’s wherefore I ever stayed retired of trouble."

Gronkowski besides ripped the Tennessee Titans for letting Vrabel go.

"They’ve been a debacle since Mike Vrabel left. That was 1 of the worst moves they’ve ever made successful programme history. I don’t spot wherefore they fto him leave. The feline did a large occupation there, helium didn’t person a ton of guys to spell retired determination and marque plays, and they inactive won shot games, conscionable similar they’re winning shot games successful New England. That was 1 of the biggest mistakes successful Tennessee history," helium said.

New England Patriots caput manager Mike Vrabel watches during the archetypal fractional of the AFC Championship NFL shot crippled against the Denver Broncos, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, successful Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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Vrabel coached the Titans from 2018 done 2023, adjacent losing to Gronkowski and the Pats successful an AFC rubric game.

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