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Another one from a casino in January 2024 right after he got fired from Tennessee.
These 2 lovebirds were inseparable!

 

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It's common knowledge how much time Coach's spend at work during the season. Our Mike made the comment about making time to see his son.

If fixing his family was 100% the most important thing to him, you would think he needs to step away from the game. Can't see this being fixed before OTA's
 

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How many men have DICKtated their downfall due to the 🐈.

It’s the Patriots…he’ll probably be their coach for awhile.

But, I don’t see how you can coach a team of men. Preach trust, integrity, doing the right thing even when no one is watching…etc, and have them buy into what you’re saying.

If I’m her husband, she would’ve already been served. She has embarrassed that dude in some of her segments in the past. To top it off, she’s cheating too? Nah…couldn’t be me.
 
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You can tell from all the clips circulating out there that she thinks very highly of herself. Someone should have told her long ago, "Honey, you're not all that." Classic case of sleeping your way to the top and telling yourself you got there by being a great reporter. Good luck ever finding work again with any reputable news outlet. Then she has the audacity in her resignation letter to play the victim card and not take one ounce or responsibility. The icing on the cake is naming her first son "Michael." I'd sure be getting a paternity test done too while filing for divorce if I were her husband. She is disgusting.
 

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You can tell from all the clips circulating out there that she thinks very highly of herself. Someone should have told her long ago, "Honey, you're not all that." Classic case of sleeping your way to the top and telling yourself you got there by being a great reporter. Good luck ever finding work again with any reputable news outlet. Then she has the audacity in her resignation letter to play the victim card and not take one ounce or responsibility. The icing on the cake is naming her first son "Michael." I'd sure be getting a paternity test done too while filing for divorce if I were her husband. She is disgusting.
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Vrabels poor wife…she’s stuck by him for decades. I hope she takes half his shit.
 

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How many men have DICKtated their downfall due to the 🐈.

It’s the Patriots…he’ll probably be their coach for awhile.

But, I don’t see how you can coach a team of men. Preach trust, integrity, doing the right thing even when no one is watching…etc, and have them buy into what you’re saying.

If I’m her husband, she would’ve already been served. She has embarrassed that dude in some of her segments in the past. To top it off, she’s cheating too? Nah…couldn’t be me.
When this first broke, I didn't think it had a snowball's chance in hell of affecting Vrabel's job. But this story has taken on a life of its own, and now I'm not so sure. Every day, another picture/video, another part of the continuing saga leaks out.

So far, neither the Patriots nor the league has investigated the Vrabel/Russini story, but could change if they put any credence in this latest twist:

One specific report now looks particularly suspect given the new context, and timeline, of Russini’s apparent relationship with Vrabel. As noted by Mike Florio in Pro Football Talk, a 2021 ESPN report filed by Russini about then-Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones could have conceivably helped the Tennessee Titans, then coached by Vrabel, secure a trade for the star wideout.

Russini reported that the Falcons had “discussed several offers for wide receiver Julio Jones, including an offer of a future first-round draft pick.” As Florio notes, the report gave a clear impression that the Falcons had been offered a first-round pick for Jones. Additionally, Russini characterized the Titans’ chances at landing a trade for Jones as a “long shot.”

Ultimately, Jones plus a sixth-round pick was traded to the Titans for a second-round pick and a fourth-round pick, a substantial step down from the supposed first-round offer the Falcons already had in hand.

The report, Florio continues, could have had a “chilling effect” on any team that had interest in Jones, but didn’t want to part ways with a first-round pick in a trade. If teams were dissuaded from contacting the Falcons because of Russini’s report, the Titans may have faced less competition for Jones. And by mentioning the Titans were a “long shot,” the team was potentially afforded the ability to “maneuver quietly,” Florio suggests.

Considering Russini has filed hundreds, if not thousands of reports between 2020 and 2026, there are likely other reports that could be similarly scrutinized.



It would be damn hard to prove that Russini was intentionally slanting stories to benefit the Titans and/or Vrabel. But with what seems to be more stuff coming out by the hour, who knows?
 

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Pats won't fire Vrabel...hell they new Aaron Hernandez was a murderer and they let him hang around the team for years...
 

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Why do people care? It’s none of our business.
Agreed.

It's between him and his wife and family to deal with.

I was driving yesterday and the 950 Sports Radio show host was going on and on and on....about was Vrabel telling the truth and this and that.....

Save it for the tabloids and talk sports.
 

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Why do people care? It’s none of our business.
Agreed.

It's between him and his wife and family to deal with.

I was driving yesterday and the 950 Sports Radio show host was going on and on and on....about was Vrabel telling the truth and this and that.....

Save it for the tabloids and talk sports.
If you were their employer, it would be a huge problem and very much your business. And, there's some allegations that are very disturbing that could have affected competitiveness if Russini were publishing false or misleading stories designed to benefit Vrabel and/or his team.

This story goes way beyond two consenting adults cheating on their spouses. For Vrabel, it has to do with his credibility in counseling 20 and 30 something year old alpha males and, in some cases, disciplining players for violations of the personal conduct policy. For Russini, it has to do with her ethical conduct in writing and reporting, something that almost certainly is a violation of her employer's conflict of interest policy.
 

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Why do people care? It’s none of our business.

If you were their employer, it would be a huge problem and very much your business. And, there's some allegations that are very disturbing that could have affected competitiveness if Russini were publishing false or misleading stories designed to benefit Vrabel and/or his team.

This story goes way beyond two consenting adults cheating on their spouses. For Vrabel, it has to do with his credibility in counseling 20 and 30 something year old alpha males and, in some cases, disciplining players for violations of the personal conduct policy. For Russini, it has to do with her ethical conduct in writing and reporting, something that almost certainly is a violation of her employer's conflict of interest policy.
yes, I see your points on Russini's reporting and this issue.
 

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yes, I see your points on Russini's reporting and this issue.
Thanks, I appreciate your acknowledgement.

There's other factors that has kept this story in the headlines. First of all, it's the offseason, and a slow time of the year for sports in general. Secondly, it involves sex, a subject that needs no analysis or explanation of terms. We're all experts in the field. Thirdly, it's the way this story has come out, at first blatant denials then a slow drip of more photos and old stories resurfacing. The photos were once called "laughable" by the subject and now he's having some tough conversations about them with his family.

It reminds me of you-know-who shaking his finger at the camera and emphatically saying: "I did not have a sexual relationship with that woman!"

BTW, I wonder if Vrabel ever flew on Epstein's plane?
 
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Yikes. Sounds like Dirty Dianna was really getting around. You know McVay was one of the other coaches. 😂 I hope that whiner starts getting dragged into this. Between still not getting over last season, the Dirty Dianna rumors, and their draft, the little guy's head may just explode.

Yeah, I'd heard about that one. That woman is a slut. I don't blame Crissy Froyd for calling her out like she did. Indeed, I admire her for it. It hurts all aspiring females that are trying to do things right for one of them to act like Russini has.

It's a little off topic, but when I first started out into the business world in the late 1970's as a management trainee, women were just then getting into management, and the good ole boys network was still firmly in place. It was not uncommon for an ambitious woman to sleep her way to the top as that was just about the only way they could get ahead. The old saying was It's not who you know, it's who you blow.
 
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