‘NFL reporter Dianna Russini had insider info from boy pal Mike Vrabel on illegal trade.’ – Tony Farmer
The betting markets are showing a 1:4 chance that embattled canoodling New England Patriots Coach Mike Vrabel will soon be gone.
Mike Florio of NBC’s Pro Football Talk checked in with Kalshi and Polymarket for their predictions.
The key test is whether former NFL reporter Dianna Russini is ready to spill.
“Given the developments to date and the possibility, if not inevitability, of more developments to come, it remains possible that Mike Vrabel won’t remain the head coach of the Patriots,” Florio says.
“The wild card is whether and when the other person in this situation – Dianna Russini – will tell her side of the story,” he said.
The “story” for nearly a month now has been the strange Vrabel-Russini relationship, aptly, widely, described as an affair.
It’s gone from Vrabel and Russini laughing off New York Post claims they’re hooking up to Vrabel “seeking counseling” and Russini quitting her job at The Athletic.
“Depending on what she says (if she says anything), it could reshuffle the deck in a way that complicates Vrabel’s situation to the point at which it’s not possible to continue,” Florio says.
For now, 23 percent of the people who are betting on Kalshi and Polymarket believe that the story will end with Vrabel not remaining.
The odds are 25 percent higher now than anyone would have expected them to be a month ago before the canoodling couple made the tabs.
Meanwhile it’s interesting that Florio is now suddenly speculating on Vrabel just days after gagging his co-host, ex-NFL QB Chris Simms.
When Simms recently took to PFT Live’s mic to talk affair, Florio told him to shut it.
Florio is now “setting the record straight on the controversy involving Simms getting removed from Football Night in America on the heels of a tense moment on their show,” The Spun reports via Yahoo.
In a piece published to his website, Florio said he told Simms to “stay on target” while discussing the Russini-Vrabel controversy to keep Simms from saying something that could get him in legal trouble.
“I practiced law for 19 years,” Florio said. “I know where the line is. I was trying to keep my co-host and friend away from it, by getting him to stick to what was known.”
“At that specific moment, my goal was to protect my co-host from accidentally saying something that hasn’t been properly vetted. Such comments can have consequences, potentially in the form of a civil lawsuit for defamation,” he added.
In a related development, podcaster Tony Farmer says Russini apparently had insider information last year on the Morgan Moses trade that was evidence she was already involved with Vrabel.
Russini allegedly quickly deleted a tweet she’d posted showing Moses with a Patriots logo before the legal contract-negotiating period had begun.
Farmer alleges it shows “evidence that the Patriots tampered” by opening contract negotiations with the-then N.Y. Jet player.
“The NFL hasn’t commented on it,” Farmer said Sunday. “If they had investigated it in 2025 – like fans were calling for – they would have found this (Vrabel-Russini) relationship sooner.”
WHO CARES .
AT LEAST he’s Not a transgender child pornography weirdo with a Nazi tattoo and purple hair .
I understand the interest in this only as it effects Patriots.
Otherwise, it smacks of TMW once again trolling for the National Enquirer readership segment, and feeding the addiction for 24/7/365 gambling.
I suppose sooner or later, it was inevitable.
Sooner or later, all internet “commerce” succumbs to trolling most of all for clicks. Beginning with the headlines.