Call it resilience if you want, or better, parrot the terminology Mike Vrabel used after the Patriots’ 33-27 victory over the Dolphins Sunday afternoon.
“We’re not frontrunners,” he said, sounding rather like a proud dad after his first win as Patriots coach, “and that’s a big thing in this league.”
Vrabel was talking about his team’s collective refusal in a back-and-forth game to mope or back down after the Dolphins hit them with a couple of big plays, and an early lead had slipped away.
But that resilience, that determination to fight back when good fortune and momentum has abandoned you, that ability to stay focused and overcome mistakes, applies to several of his players, too.
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