Still laughing, Mike Vrabel? Patriots coach torches credibility as scandal grows | Opinion
Mike Vrabel once called questions about photos of him with Dianna Russini "laughable." It's clear now that wasn't the case.
Who’s that laughing now, Mike Vrabel? Like millions, dude, laughing at you as the scandal involving your interactions with Dianna Russini, former NFL reporter for The Athletic, seemingly gets more salacious by the hour. What a pitiful saga.
When the initial bombshell dropped with The New York Post publishing photographs of Vrabel and Russini, captured so cozy at a luxury resort in Sedona, Arizona, before the NFL owners meeting in late March, the New England Patriots coach harumphed that any suggestion the pictures reflected more than an innocent interaction were “laughable. ” Then came another wave. And another.
The latest photo drop by The Post, hours before the NFL draft began on Thursday, captured the two purportedly canoodling at a bar in New York – in 2020! Now Vrabel is stepping away, for therapy and time with his family. At the half-empty “news conference” staged on Thursday night at Gillette Stadium, someone asked Vrabel to explain how this progressed from “laughable” to a need for counseling.
He had the nerve to trumpet the family theme in trying to explain away his initial statement. “That’s a private, personal matter,” Vrabel said. “I don’t think that those comments…I think that was always an attempt to protect your family and I would never be dismissive.
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