In his Monday appearance on @TheGregHillShow, Mike Vrabel was asked about post-game remarks when he said “I do not think we have a very deep team” (specifically regarding the topic of QB Drake Maye and starters possibly playing in the preseason). Vrabel was asked if that was a not-so-subtle message to the front office and said: “We are the front office. We are all making the decisions. We’re all included in this. It was about the young guys we have to develop. You can see that the players we kept out of the game, those are the guys. And we have to be able to find some guys behind them to be backups, to be the first guy in. To be the third outside linebacker. Be the third inside linebacker. Be the sixth offensive lineman. These things that are so critical. Be the third safety. “So those are the things that we are trying to develop, and I guess that’s what I was referencing. I can walk back, and I’ve already talked to [Executive VP of Player Personnel] Eliot [Wolf] this morning, and these aren’t issues. I’m not in a subtle context – that wasn’t that. They asked why we didn’t play the guys, and [the answer is] we have to have everybody we have available and then continue to develop and see some guys that went out and played like they did on Saturday night to continue to build that depth.” Asked why the Patriots don’t have good depth, Vrabel said: “Well, I think that when you look at how you want to be constructed, we have to continue to draft very well. We have to continue to develop those late-round picks, the guys that we can find that can be interior offensive linemen, that can be special teams linebackers, which is what we’re hoping when you look at Nam[di Obiazor] and Khalil [Jacobs]. Drafted some edge guys that you can develop and that maybe haven’t played necessarily this 3-4 defense in the past but that you’re developing. "That’s just kind of where we were constructed and I think we can always work to improve that. You just know that through the course of the season you’re going to need so many of those guys just because things are going to happen and we have to be ready to play games without those front-line guys. That’s on us to be able to get these guys ready to go.”