FOXBORO — On Monday, Mike Vrabel welcomed Patriots players into a team meeting at the start of their voluntary offseason program.

From the front of a windowless room with auditorium-style seating, Vrabel laid out the team’s goals.

First, he said, the Patriots want to win the division. Vrabel then continued by listing loftier goals and eventually finished by detailing team rules among other basic information that would shape his new program and the upcoming season.

On Thursday, as players returned for another meeting, it was quiz time.

Vrabel singled players out, asking them to relay what goals he had laid out Monday.

“(Vrabel) makes sure we’re on our toes and makes sure we’re actually paying attention and things of that nature,” Pats running back Antonio Gibson said Thursday.

Anyone get caught off-guard?

“A few maybe were slow to answer,” Gibson said with a smile, “but nobody got caught yet.”

Patriots center Garrett Bradbury, who signed last month after being released in Minnesota, said he had heard tales of Vrabel’s questions before joining the team.

“So a big thing that I was told coming in was coach Vrabel will ask a bunch of questions in team meetings. Like, you have to know your stuff, which I love” Bradbury said Thursday. “I think that if you have to be ready to answer any question — whether it’s about rules, whether it’s about goals, whether it’s about individual plays, coaching points — I think everyone in that meeting room understands they have to be on top of their stuff.

“And when you do that, if you’re the left tackle and you know what the right guard is going to do. I think you play faster.”

Vrabel, who played eight years and won three Super Bowls in New England as a player, may have picked up the practice from his former coach Bill Belichick. During his 24-year tenure as head coach, Belichick became famous for quizzing players in meetings, down to the history of other ownership groups and career paths of opposing coaches.