While the team still isn’t operating with a traditional front-office hierarchy, it doesn’t sound like there will be any power struggle between some of the team’s major voices.

Mike Vrabel is back in the NFL head coaching ranks as the former Ohio State star is the new head coach of the New England Patriots.

Now, with O’Brien revitalizing BC and Vrabel looking to do the same with the Patriots, the area’s most prominent football teams are led by men who bonded in Foxborough.