With Tom Brady's every move being tracked ahead of his impending free agency, Mike Vrabel got involved when he was spotted on FaceTime with Brady and Julian Edelman when the two were at a Syracuse basketball game last weekend.
Was it tampering? Did it mean Brady is a lock to go to the Titans? Was Vrabel just trying to add to the drama?
Appearing on Good Morning Football Friday, Vrabel explained the call, which he said was just two friends talking.
"Well, it would be no different than a conversation you would have with your girlfriends on a weekend," he said. "My relationship goes back to 2001 with Tom Brady -- training camp in Rhode Island, at Parente's we'd go to practice and bunch of us would go out to the bar at Parente's after practice and that's where a lot of those friendships were made. Those friendships aren't just going to stop or not continue to grow and develop now that I'm a head coach and he's a quarterback with an expiring contract. Those are going to continue on well after we're done playing with his family, with my family and having the ability to meet Jules and all those players -- there's a special bond that goes on in the locker room and that's not going to stop."
Tennessee has two big name free agents in Ryan Tannehill and Derrick Henry. Vrabel would not commit to bringing back either of the two, but that obviously doesn't mean it can't happen.
"You mentioned both Derrick and Ryan and those two players were a large part of our success," he said. "They helped us get to where we were. It wasn't good enough but we always recognize those players who have helped us get to where we are and obviously, the business of football to me is that every day Jon [Robinson] and I are trying to look for players that are younger and cheaper. The players in those seats are doing everything that they possibly can to make sure that doesn't happen. I recognize that is the definition of what the business of football is to me. I recognized that in my career and obviously see it in the same sense as a head coach."
Free agency officially begins March 18.
