Patriots coach Mike Vrabel opened his postgame press conference Sunday by saying his team was “lucky to win” against the Jets.
The Patriots jumped out to a 17-3 halftime lead and ended up winning 26-19 to extend their winning streak to three games, but Vrabel expanded on his earlier comment to make it clear he doesn’t think they had the formula right on the field.
“We just didn’t play very well,” Vrabel said, via a team transcript. “We tried to beat ourselves, but we made enough plays in critical situations to help us get through here today.”
E AJ Brown dropped passes it was a clear way the team hurt themselves, and they also lost a pair of fumbles, which brought them to 13 turnovers on the season. Vrabel focused on the latter issue at length an appearance on WEEI Monday morning.
“We turn the ball over on a historical scaleand it’s ridiculous,” Vrabel said, via ESPN’s Mike Reiss. “It’s an embarrassment.”
If there’s an upside to turnovers, it’s that Drake Maye hasn’t contributed any of them over the past two weeks after having nine in the first four weeks of the season. His consistency has helped fuel the team’s winning streak, and Vrabel will have to find a way to carry that over to the rest of the team.