FOXBORO, Mass. — Robert Kraft would neither confirm nor deny the flood of reports linking Mike Vrabel to the Patriots.
Kraft met with the media at Gillette Stadium on Monday, some 20 hours after the organization fired head coach Jerod Mayo. Mayo went 4-13 during his first and only season and the helm, the regression causing Kraft to pull the plug.
It didn’t take long for speculation to surface that Vrabel, a Patriots Hall of Famer, was the “front-runner” for the job. Kraft...