00:00First of all, the big story with the Patriots, obviously, is the Russini-Vrabel thing.
00:06How is that playing out, to your knowledge, down there in Foxborough?
00:11Is it an issue at all?
00:12Not, at least so far.
00:15I've talked to some guys, both on and off the record, and while they understand that
00:21it's a story, it's not within the building.
00:24It doesn't seem to be much of a story, at least at this point.
00:26I mean, Vrabel was on the field working with guys on Saturday when we were down there.
00:31He was bouncing back and forth between position groups and working with a handful of guys
00:37on both sides of the ball.
00:38So, look, right now, I don't think it's much of a story.
00:43That being said, if something else comes out, who knows where we're going to go from here.
00:46But at least within the confines of the locker room, talking to the players, they don't see
00:51it as much of a story, at least at this point.
00:52Yeah, I wouldn't guess that the players were overly concerned about an extramarital affair.
00:58But news is going to continue to come out.
01:01And we were talking to Bert about this, is that people are going to go, oh, yeah, I took
01:07a picture with Vrabel in 1992.
01:09And I wonder if Diana Rossini was in it.
01:12And stuff's going to come out.
01:14And Diana Rossini's a real wild card in this, because if she comes out and starts doing
01:18interviews, this brings us all up.
01:20So, let's, I'm fairly confident that when the season begins in, you know, the end of
01:28the summer and the preseason begins, that this is still going to be a story.
01:34How long as a beat writer, your job is different.
01:38Does this, this whole thing, if information keeps coming out, how long does that become
01:44a factor for you as a beat writer, you know, dealing with the team?
01:48If something new comes up, if something extraordinary, you talked about the pictures, oh, you know,
01:55I think that we've reached a point where we're going to continue to get, like you said, you
02:00know, someone took a picture with Vrabel in 1992, and that's going to pop up.
02:04And that's going to be a conversation.
02:05I don't think that's necessarily going to alter the course of what's going on.
02:11I think, and just, I don't think this is possible, but if something else comes up that might be
02:17out of the ordinary, like text messages or something like that, that might be incriminating
02:21to Vrabel, Russini, the team, you know, whatever the case may be.
02:25If they take it to that level, then I think things would change dramatically.
02:30But if we're just going to continue to see dribs and drabs of photos of Vrabel, you know,
02:35buying his wife a sweatshirt in the airport or, you know, Mike and Diana renting a boat
02:40in Tennessee, I think that, you know, Vrabel's job is secure at this point.
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