00:00And I got to get your takeaway on the Vrabel-Roussini story here.
00:04I mean, do you believe there'll be any collateral damage
00:07to the Patriots this year?
00:09I mean, as you know, Craig, noise hurts a lot of football teams.
00:13When you've got too much noise in the locker room,
00:16you know, and you've got a story like this,
00:18do you think there's any collateral damage to the Patriots
00:21repeating as AFC champions with this story,
00:24and it affects Vrabel?
00:26Yeah, look, let me go backwards on that.
00:28I don't think the Patriots are going to, you know,
00:32repeat as AFC champions because I don't think they're going to be
00:34a very good X-win team.
00:37Obviously, even a lot of credit for what they did last year.
00:39No one saw it coming.
00:40The young quarterback, Drake May, blah, blah, blah.
00:43So I just don't think they're a very good football team,
00:45and I don't think they replaced Stephon Diggs either.
00:47So I have to keep that to the side.
00:49In regards to the Vrabel situation, how it impacts them,
00:52I'm not 100% sure that the next bomb that drops in this story,
00:57because it seems like every week there's some new kind of wrinkle to it,
01:02isn't going to stop them from making a decision about Mike Vrabel's future
01:05as the Patriots head coach.
01:07I know right now it seems like he survived it.
01:10I saw that video of the season ticket holder at luncheon
01:13where they all gave him a standing ovation because we as fans,
01:15at the end of the day, are sheep.
01:17No matter who we root for, that guy got us back to a Super Bowl.
01:21I don't care who he might be sleeping with.
01:23I want that guy to be my head coach.
01:24That's the Patriot mindset, and I get that.
01:27But, man, this is the craziest story I've seen in a long time in the sports world
01:32because every week it seems like there's a new iteration of something between these two.
01:37And then you have the story last week where we thought that Deanna had saved an old man's life
01:42by having a guy lift her on top of a car that had been flipped over in an accident
01:47and rescued this 78-year-old guy from the car and gets the dog out of the car.
01:51And now we find out while she was there, she was holding on to the dog leash
01:56and never once jumped on top of the car or got this man out of the car.
02:01So this is a really strange story.
02:03I think the way the media has covered it is very strange as well.
02:07My gut is that the reason it's been kind of poo-pooed and quieted in a lot of places
02:13is that this was a very poorly kept secret amongst networks and teams and coaches and players.
02:19Do you believe, Craig, that this is one of the reasons why he was fired in Tennessee?
02:25Because the year previous, he won the NFL Coach of the Year Award when he was there in Tennessee.
02:32I mean, we all said this.
02:34All of a sudden, out of nowhere, Mike Rabel was fired over one bad season,
02:38and he had done so much.
02:39I mean, you were going to playoffs with Ryan Tannehill.
02:42So you just said it.
02:43Maybe this was a story that's been going on.
02:45And by the way, one of the big things that people are just finding out too,
02:49she covered the Titans when she was in Tennessee and she was covering Mike Rabel.
02:55Maybe this is one of the reasons also that, you know,
02:58the Tennessee Titans ended up blowing him out there.
03:00Yeah, I mean, it's possible, right?
03:03The guy had a great run in Tennessee, like you said,
03:05went to the playoffs a lot without having a top 10 quarterback in the NFL.
03:09And then you start connecting the story she broke while he was in Tennessee that involved him,
03:16involved the player personnel decisions.
03:18You know, until someone in Tennessee comes out from their management and says,
03:21by the way, you know, that's why we fired him, you know, three years ago, whatever it was.
03:26It kind of leaves it up to that kind of conjecture.
03:29If you told me that's why it happened, I certainly would believe it.
03:32But there's no concrete evidence to point to that just yet.
03:37Craig, I'll ask you the last question on this.
03:39Do you think he should be fired?
03:40Do you think Bob Kraft should parachute in and get and replace the guy?
03:45Based on the information we have now?
03:48Probably not.
03:49Yeah, I think, you know, they have different jobs.
03:51If you want to have journalistic integrity and you're allegedly getting stories by sleeping around to get them,
03:57that is fireable these days, right?
03:59I made the joke the other day that she was just trying to be like the two greatest investigative reporters
04:05of all time.
04:05And that's Woodward and Bernstein.
04:07Woodward and Bernstein took down a presidency, Richard Nixon and Watergate.
04:12And I hope you'll laugh at this because I think it's funny.
04:15I think she learned from them.
04:17And what I say that I mean is Woodward and Bernstein had an inside source.
04:21What was the name of the inside source?
04:24Oh, the inside source was, God, all the president's men.
04:29What was that inside source?
04:31Help me, Craig.
04:33Yeah, Deep Throat.
04:34Deep Throat.
04:38Oh, my God.
04:41Yes, it was Deep Throat who ended up becoming, by the way, allegedly the assistant FBI guy.
04:48And what do they teach in every journalism school in America?
04:52Woodward and Bernstein, Watergate, Nixon, Deep Throat.
04:56How can you blame a young, intrepid reporter for not taking it literally?
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