00:00Well, you probably by now know about the bombshell yesterday.
00:03Diana Rossini resigns from her job at The Athletic.
00:07Her contract was up at the end of June regardless.
00:09So only a couple months left.
00:11Writes a pretty lengthy letter that she puts out publicly.
00:15At no point in the letter does she take ownership for her actions.
00:18Instead, she decides to blame commentators and self-feeding speculation
00:23that is simply unmoored from the facts.
00:26That's a direct quote.
00:27That is from her letter.
00:27But at no point does she say, and by the way, yeah, I was having an affair with Mike Vrabel.
00:34She did resign, though.
00:36And to me, you just announced that you were having an affair with Mike Vrabel.
00:40Because your first excuse was cockamamie, that you were on a hiking trip with the girls
00:44or that there were six other people that were there as well.
00:47And you never produced a single one of those people.
00:49You then try to convince The Athletic that all the reporters and the pictures
00:54didn't tell the real story, so they supported you.
00:56And then The Athletic started doing a full investigation, not just into your alleged relationship
01:01with Mike Vrabel, but every other story you've ever put out under the umbrella of the New
01:06York Times and The Athletic.
01:07And then when they were getting, I guess, pretty close to the truth about maybe who you are
01:12and what you were doing, you decided to stop the investigation by resigning.
01:16Now, I think resigning is actually the smart play for her in this regard.
01:20I do not think her career is over 100%.
01:23You know, when you resign, you know, months from now, years from now, when everyone says
01:28to you, hey, by the way, were you fired?
01:30No, I wasn't fired.
01:32I resigned to try to stop giving oxygen to the story that just wasn't true.
01:37Of course, you have no defense, though.
01:40You're not telling us what the story is.
01:41And maybe you don't have a responsibility to.
01:43I understand that logic as well.
01:46But when you resign, it's like announcing, all right, you got me.
01:51I tried to explain it away with the release.
01:54That obviously didn't work because I can't provide you the people that allegedly were with
01:59us or with me in Arizona.
02:01But nobody seemed to, I'll just move on and accept my story.
02:05Then I went to my editor.
02:06I lied to my editor.
02:08And he wanted to believe me.
02:10But, you know, he's got bosses also.
02:12So they started doing an investigation.
02:14And I know that the noose is getting tighter.
02:17So maybe I can end all the conversation by simply resigning.
02:21I actually think it's a smart play, Tyrone.
02:23I do.
02:23Now, I heard your side.
02:26And I'm not even saying I disagree with it, but there are people out there that feel like
02:31these conclusions that you were just stating are unfair.
02:35For example.
02:36Let's go one by one.
02:37Which one?
02:38Now, you said that, in a way, her resignation is an admission.
02:42It's an admission of guilt.
02:43Right.
02:43But what about people that say, well, if you're not having an affair, and let's work off that
02:48premise for a moment.
02:48Yeah, sure.
02:49If you're not having an affair, then how do you, in a statement, or how do you prove
02:53you're not having an affair?
02:54It's simple.
02:55If there were six people with me, and I'm only saying that because that's what she said,
02:59then I produced those six people.
03:01Right?
03:02Hey, number two, I have a press conference.
03:05Ask me everything and anything you want.
03:07Now, you said-
03:07Because remember, if you know in your heart of hearts that you are not guilty of what you're
03:12being accused of, then it's very easy to sit in front of people and answer questions
03:16about it.
03:16True.
03:17Right?
03:17But what about the fact that, how do we know she did not share with her bosses those six
03:23people, and why does she need to do that publicly for us if she told her bosses, here are the
03:29other people that were there?
03:30Because her first statement was, it's nonsense, you're reading into things.
03:34The Athletic came right out and kind of doubled down to what her first explanation was, but
03:40they were also in the middle, we didn't know at the time, of an investigation.
03:43And obviously, it's not going to take them that long to figure out that they're not going
03:47to figure out that there were no other people there, which means the story starts collapsing.
03:50And then if I'm going to bring you in with human resources, I've got a lot of pointed
03:54questions for you, and you and I both know you can't answer them.
03:57Now, I don't need to know all the dirty, gory details of the relationship.
04:02I believe that her resignation confirms that there was a relationship.
04:07And look, I think it's 50-50.
04:10I think Mike Vrabel's got an answer for this as well.
04:12He has to.
04:13I know he's not going to resign.
04:14I know they're not going to fire him because he has a different job than she does.
04:18He does.
04:19But I also don't think it's the end of her career.
04:21I agree.
04:22I think that it's not going to be tomorrow that she gets hired, but I think if you lay
04:27low for a while, other things hit the news, obviously, that we then become interested
04:32in, like the cat with the laser, right?
04:34Yeah, draft next week.
04:35It starts there.
04:37Now, whatever your next job is, the first 24 hours, it's going to be a rehashing of this.
04:42You have to suck that up.
04:43You can't avoid that.
04:45Like, I haven't been in prison in seven years.
04:50But people do bring it up.
04:51And every story written about me still references the fact that I got in trouble.
04:54So, unfortunately, you have to live with that the rest of your professional career.
05:00I do.
05:01And it sucks.
05:03And you do.
05:04And it's going to suck.
05:05But you are going to get another job.
05:09Now, you might not have the prestige you have.
05:11You might not start off with the same number financially.
05:14But you've proven to be a talented broadcaster.
05:17She is talented.
05:18You're a good guest on a lot of these shows that I've...
05:20She absolutely is.
05:21...didn't even know existed until this thing happened.
05:23She absolutely is.
05:24And there's going to be somebody out there, much like there was for me, that's going to say, let it
05:29die down for a little bit.
05:31And when you're in a good place with your marriage, with your family, and with your mental health, we can
05:40sit down and talk.
05:41She's going to get a job.
05:42Now, is this part, because it's the next point of a lot of people are saying that this is unfair,
05:48like, for whatever, there will be people out there that will say, the fact that you have to wear it
05:54and she has to wear it, people will say those are very different things.
05:58And she should not have to wear it and she should not have to wear this because we don't, one,
06:01we don't fully know the truth.
06:02And two, she didn't do anything illegal.
06:06And we're not 100% sure she did something immoral yet.
06:10Yeah, I am.
06:11But you don't have to be, and that's just me, right?
06:13You're right, it's not been proven like a stack of Bible court of law.
06:16Exactly.
06:17And I can't argue that, obviously.
06:18Because I believe, just to be clear.
06:19I don't think, good, I don't think it's fair that it's got to be like a scarlet letter.
06:24I don't think it's fair that it's a scarlet letter for me, for that matter.
06:28Because I know a lot of people, as you do as well, who have had very public issues or fall
06:33from graces, and somehow everybody just forgets about it.
06:36And some of them, some of them violent, some of them far worse than a person having a problem.
06:41I'll say that out loud.
06:42But the thing, you know, it gets me, like, I don't always understand, I guess I do as I'm thinking
06:47about it, it depends if people like you or not.
06:51Yep.
06:51Like, you know, I do an opinionated sports talk show.
06:54So there are some people that adore me, and there are some people that hate my guts.
06:58And the people that hate my guts have no problem reminding me every single day, you know, of the worst
07:03moment of my life and the worst decisions I've made in my life.
07:05I don't think that should be on my tombstone, much like I don't think the fact that I'm in the
07:11Hall of Fame
07:11should be on my tombstone.
07:13I don't think you should be judged by the single best moment of your career, nor by the single worst
07:18moment of your career.
07:19I think the breadth of your career should speak for you and not the single greatest or single worst moment.
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