Patriots coach Mike Vrabel responds after photos with New York Times NFL reporter leak

New England Patriots caput manager Mike Vrabel addressed caller photos that amusement him and New York Times and The Athletic NFL newsman Dianna Russini successful bathing suits by a pool.

The photos, primitively published by the New York Post's Page Six, besides amusement the manager and writer holding hands and hugging connected the extortion of a edifice bungalow successful Sedona, Arizona.

"These photos amusement a wholly guiltless enactment and immoderate proposition different is laughable," Vrabel told the Post. "This doesn’t merit immoderate further response."

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New England Patriots caput manager Mike Vrabel celebrates with members of his squad aft a touchdown during the 2nd fractional of the NFL Super Bowl LX shot crippled against the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, successful Santa Clara, California. (Lynne Sladky/AP)

Russini has besides responded.

"The photos don’t correspond the radical of six radical who were hanging retired during the day. Like astir journalists successful the NFL, reporters interact with sources distant from stadiums and different venues." Russini said.

The Athletic provided its ain connection to the outlet.

"These photos are misleading and deficiency indispensable context," Steven Ginsberg, enforcement exertion of The Athletic, said. "These were nationalist interactions successful beforehand of galore people. Dianna is simply a premier writer covering the NFL and we’re arrogant to person her astatine The Athletic."

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New England Patriots caput manager Mike Vrabel watches during the archetypal fractional of the AFC Championship NFL shot crippled against the Denver Broncos, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, successful Denver. (David Zalubowski/AP)

Vrabel is coming disconnected a play successful which helium led the Patriots to the Super Bowl and won NFL Coach of the Year.

Vrabel won the grant implicit his hostile connected Sunday successful Super Bowl LX, Seattle Seahawks’ Mike Macdonald, San Francisco 49ers’ Kyle Shanahan, Jacksonville Jaguars’ Liam Coen and Chicago Bears’ Ben Johnson.

It was the 2nd clip successful Vrabel’s coaching vocation that helium has won the award. He received 19 of the 50 first-place votes and had a full of 302 points.

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New England Patriots caput manager Mike Vrabel speaks astatine a quality league aft an NFL wild-card playoff shot crippled successful Foxborough, Massachusetts, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Vrabel archetypal won the grant portion starring the Tennessee Titans successful 2021.

Vrabel is the seventh manager to ever triumph Coach of the Year for aggregate franchises, joining Chuck Knox, Bill Parcells, Bruce Arians, Dan Reeves, Don Shula and George Allen.

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