00:00So if you've missed this story, if you've been under a rock the last 12 to 24 hours.
00:05I think there are a lot of people that would have.
00:06I would have missed this story if you hadn't told me about it.
00:08Yeah, so page six on the New York Post had this story yesterday that last week when the
00:16owners' meetings were in Phoenix, prior to the owners' meetings, which began on Monday,
00:20so again, these are in Phoenix, there were pictures taken of Mike Vrabel, the head coach
00:26of the New England Patriots, and Diana Rossini, I would say the lead NFL newsbreaker for the
00:32athletic, she's in that Rappaport Schefter world of breaking news.
00:37The two of them were spotted at an adults-only resort in Sedona, Arizona, the weekend before
00:45the owners' meetings.
00:46For a little geographical perspective, Sedona is a couple-hour drive from Phoenix, and it's
00:52kind of in the middle of nowhere.
00:53And from what Reggie just told me during the break, it is kind of a go-to place for
00:57a lot of people who are in those types of relationships.
01:01Yeah, it's a very open-minded environment up there, too.
01:05A lot of, you know, there's kind of a woo-woo element to it as far as on the alternative
01:11health
01:12side of things, Eastern religion, and then free living in general.
01:17To the extent that Reggie said that he's, you know, and I don't want to put words in Reggie's
01:21mouth, we can bring this up maybe during the toss, but almost like when you go to Sedona
01:25to these resorts, there's almost an understanding, like, hey, you know, let's do this.
01:28What happens in Sedona stays in Sedona.
01:30Exactly verbatim what I said to Reggie, yes.
01:33There's sort of that understanding.
01:34Well, and they are in the pictures, some of the pictures you see, they're on the private
01:40rooftop of an individual suite.
01:42Yeah.
01:42It's just not as private as maybe Diana Russini and Mike Vrabel thought.
01:47Would have wanted it, yeah.
01:48I mean, there's shots of them in a hot tub together.
01:51She's got a bathing suit on.
01:52He's shirtless in the hot tub, presumably with a bathing suit on down below.
01:56There were shots of them dancing together at night.
01:59The hug that they had when they presumably saw each other for the first time there looked
02:03far more intimate, at least in still shots, than a normal hug between two people who know
02:10each other professionally, we see that sometimes.
02:13People hug each other professionally sometimes.
02:15Well, and they've got kind of like, when they've been seen in public interviews together
02:19and everything, they almost have a flirty vibe about them.
02:21Yes.
02:22So, I don't know.
02:23Both those sides would claim that, hey, these are just still shots taken out of context.
02:29There's the sources that are trying to defend them are saying they were both there with
02:35their own friends and, you know, as part of a separate group.
02:39And yet, the people at the hotel are saying that they never saw them with anybody else
02:44other than each other the entire time.
02:46They both put out statements themselves to the New York Post, completely dismissing this,
02:51saying it's ludicrous.
02:52What you've seen is an interaction between two people who have professional respect, blah,
02:57blah, blah.
02:57So, they both denied it.
02:59Nobody's buying it.
03:01Nobody's buying it.
03:03And, to me, the fact that Vrabel drove two hours.
03:07Vrabel was in Phoenix on Friday at the ASU Pro Day.
03:11Yeah.
03:12Drove to Sedona.
03:13And then they're all going back to Phoenix for the owners' meetings.
03:15This is just something stinks.
03:17If this was me, and let's say everything was just the way that Vrabel had claimed it was.
03:23Right.
03:25My wife is not going to be happy with these pictures.
03:27Me neither, man.
03:28Like, there's no, like, it's just, it's a bad look.
03:32And that's where, it's just as we always say with players, man, you know, you just keep
03:36yourself out of bad situations.
03:37You know, if you're continually showing up with stuff like this, and Vrabel doesn't continually
03:42show up with stuff like this, and yet he is the, he's a very recognizable head coach
03:48of a team that was just in the Super Bowl.
03:49Yeah, yeah.
03:50And there's going to be people that are skewering Diana Rossini over how unprofessional this
03:57is, unethical it is, et cetera, et cetera.
03:59And that's cool.
04:00I get it from the journalistic side of things.
04:03The bigger idiot in this, by far, is Vrabel.
04:05Because Vrabel just, because you know what?
04:08At the very least, well, you know what you're doing is you're being a schmuck for somebody
04:12that's going to use you for professional gain.
04:15And like, you're the, you're the guy who should know better at this point in your career.
04:20After years and years of being first a big time Ohio State football player, then a big
04:25time NFL player, and you've been in the business forever, that of the two people that put themselves
04:30in a more compromising position, I think it was Vrabel here.
04:33I think Vrabel's the bigger schmuck.
04:35110% you're correct.
04:37And here's the other thing to me, is that if they're both going into this, whatever this
04:42weekend is, and who knows what precedes all this, that if what the relationship had looked
04:46like, if there is one before this, is that they're going into this, and unless you're
04:51just not, unless you don't care about your marriage, and I don't, I, obviously they both
04:57seem to care about their marriage because they're issuing denials, vehement denials about
05:00this, then one of the questions you have to ask yourself is, okay, what are the chances
05:05I get caught, right?
05:06We're going, we're not going to some Airbnb on an island somewhere where there's nobody
05:10there and there's no cameras.
05:11You're at a very, you're at a resort.
05:13It's granted, it's an adults-only private resort, but everybody's got phones.
05:17Everybody can take a picture.
05:17There's, all it takes is one person to post you on social media and everybody else playing
05:23by the Sedona rules, and you're screwed.
05:25So if I'm each of those people asking me that question, like, okay, what are the chances?
05:30What could happen for me getting caught?
05:32The question becomes then, who's the more recognizable of these two people?
05:36And it's Vrabel by a mile.
05:39He is, he was the head coach of a team that played in front of 150 million people on television
05:45back in February, like casual people know who Mike Vrabel is.
05:50I would venture to say that maybe 10% of a normal Texans crowd on NRG, at NRG Stadium
05:56on game day, know what Diana Rossini looks like.
06:00Oh, Diana Rossini.
06:01Diana Rossini, yeah.
06:02Like her, she, she, there is such a smaller chance of someone recognizing her than Mike Vrabel.
06:10Well, especially when she's not all, you know, made up in her sideline reporter gear and
06:13everything like that.
06:15Um, or not sideline reporter gear, but whatever.
06:17Uh, the, yeah, I think that like Vrabel real quick, like Vrabel's a giant human being,
06:23right?
06:23Like you look at him and go, that's somebody.
06:25No.
06:25And when Vrabel goes into a restaurant or something, there's a buzz and people are pointing out
06:29and all that, even if you don't know who he is.
06:31That's exactly right.
06:32Um, so I, but like ultimately the fallout from this though, would be obviously in their own
06:38personal lives, but I think more so with Rossini because there's, uh, uh, if, if I don't know
06:44what the rules are in journalism anymore, cause it's not, none of it in sports is actual journalism,
06:48you know, at least from the people on TV.
06:51Yeah.
06:51It's, it's nugget hussying.
06:53Yeah.
06:53I call them nugget hussies.
06:55Uh, like when I call Schefter and Rappaport and those guys, I call them nugget hussies,
06:59not because as far as I know, they're offering themselves up sexually.
07:03It's because they abandoned all of their journalistic principles to just, to, to, to get these, these
07:10nuggets, you know?
07:12So they're not actual journalists, the way a guy like Jonathan Alexander or somebody else
07:16is, uh, this is just potentially an extreme degree of it.
07:19No, but I mean, but there's, there, there are, there are women out there.
07:22I'm sure that play by the rules.
07:24Right.
07:24Oh yeah.
07:24There's a boatload of women that play by the rules.
07:27And those, those women I'm guessing are the angriest contingency today, other than maybe
07:30the spouses of both of these people is that if I, you know, like a female reporters that
07:35are trying to do it the right way and aren't showing up in hot tub pictures and things like
07:39that have got to, because we, we know like that, that is a, that is a subs, like a subsection
07:45of the industry, like the, the rise of the female reporter or female broadcasters and things
07:50like that, where there's, there's been a lot of unity over that amongst that amongst women
07:55over that.
07:55And now Diana Rossini is out here and she's the number one person at what she does with
08:01that from a feet, a female.
08:02You know, she's the number one female reporter in the NFL.
08:05I kind of honestly wouldn't mind if, if, if she went by the wayside and all of this, just
08:11because she at times will break really good news.
08:14But then there's other times where I just don't trust her credibility.
08:18And some of the run-ins she's had with some of the, either the athletes or coaches, it
08:23just, it's always giving me a little bit of pause, um, uh, that whether she's got a real
08:28story or that he's just flapping her lips.
08:31Yeah.
08:31I'm anxious to see, man.
08:33Do you think on her mouth?
08:33Yeah.
08:34Yeah.
08:34Yeah.
08:35Well, you're interested to see what, if, if either of these, if either Vrabel or Rossini
08:40have to address this at some point here again, you know, or if they're now, cause Vrabel
08:44Vrabel is just going to give an angry denial.
08:46The way he did with Stefan Diggs and Christian Barmore with their allegations of assault,
08:50he got up and he said, these are just allegations at this point.
08:53Yeah.
08:53Can't believe you're even asking me about this.
08:55The two of them are deleting texts right now and deleting emails and delete, delete,
09:01delete, delete, delete.
09:02Yeah.
09:02I blame his mentors who have let him down.
09:06Bob Kraft and Bill Belichick who similarly are sloppy in their affairs.
09:11Yes.
09:11Remember back in the day, Belichick was sued by that, uh, the husband of the Giants.
09:16Secretary.
09:16Yep.
09:17Cause he alleged that, that Bill Belichick had ruined his life.
09:21Yeah.
09:22Yeah.
09:22Yeah.
09:22Learn from the best of Vrabel.
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