Asked on WEEI Afternoons about speculation that Josh McDaniels may have been a Robert and Jonathan Kraft hire and not a Mike Vrabel hire, ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter cleared things up, saying definitively that Vrabel hired McDaniels.

During an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, ESPN's NFL insider Adam Schefter discussed Vrabel's return to the franchise and indicated that executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf was going to report to Vrabel. In short, as Schefter put it, "Vrabes is the man," in New England, when McAfee asked about the front-office hierarchy.

Mike Vrabel is off the board for the New York Jets, unsurprisingly. The New England Patriots wasted little time and hired their former player as their head coach, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter: Homecoming: Mike Vrabel and the Patriots reached a multi-year agreement to make him New England’s next head coach, per sources.