Mike Vrabel got the call from the Patriots that the team was trading him to the Kansas City Chiefs. Eight years of service in New England, with three titles, and the linebacker was out of there a year too early perhaps rather than a year too late like so many others who played for that team under Bill Belichick.

New England agreed to a deal to make Vrabel the franchise's next head coach on Sunday, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. The sought-after former Titans coach who spent the bulk of his playing career in a Patriots uniform has officially been anointed as the franchise's next head coach.