Skip Bayless hints at possible quid pro quo with Russini and Vrabel

Skip Bayless knows a thing or two about controversy. Before he was on ESPN and Fox Sports 1, he was the beat reporter for the Dallas Cowboys. In fact, Bayless wrote three books about the team.

“God’s Coach”, “The Boys,” and “Hell Bent. ” All three were best sellers, but it created a strain among the team he covered. To this day, ESPN NFL commentator and Cowboys Hall of Famer Troy Aikman still doesn’t deal with Bayless because of the things he wrote about him.

So, when he speaks on the Dianna Russini and New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel situation, he knows of what he speaks. A lot of the information for his books on the Cowboys came from sources inside the team, and he says there have been both male and female reporters who have crossed the line when trying to get a story. “I don’t know what’s going on exactly between Dianna and Coach Vrabel; it’s not a good look,” he said.

“I'm going to talk quickly about something no one ever talks about, and it’s the game within the game. ” “It’s the deal that gets made, the unwritten unsaid deal between a reporter/columnist and a star player or any player for that matter,” he said. Bayless used an example of a player telling a reporter, "I’ll give you scoops here and there about the team for positive coverage.