2025: Mike Vrabel takes the NFL Coach of the Year award

Mike Vrabel has been named the 2025 NFL Coach of the Year after a season with New England Patriots.

AP NFL Coach of the Year.

New England Patriots finished 14-3 and took the 2nd seed in the AFC, which is the context every ballot is cast against.

Coaches talk about complementary football until it sounds like a slogan. It stops sounding like one when a defence gets off the field on third down and hands the offence the ball at the far forty three times in a half.

Coach of the year votes usually follow the biggest win-total swing in the league, and this one is no exception.