Super Bowl champion defends Mike Vrabel, New York Times reporter over leaked photos

Super Bowl champion LeSean McCoy took to the defence of New England Patriots caput manager Mike Vrabel and New York Times/The Athletic NFL newsman Dianna Russini.

Photos primitively published by the New York Post’s Page Six showed the manager and writer holding hands, hugging and sitting successful a excavation successful bathing suits astatine a edifice bungalow successful Sedona, Arizona. While a batch of radical person been highly captious of Vrabel and Russini, McCoy took nary contented with it.

"I similar Mike, I emotion Mike. I caput my business. They enactment together," McCoy told TMZ Sports.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers moving backmost LeSean McCoy runs with the shot against the Kansas City Chiefs during Super Bowl LV astatine Raymond James Stadium successful Tampa, Florida, connected Feb. 7, 2021. (Mark J. Rebilas/USA TODAY Sports)

"Everybody makes thing large retired of everything. He's a big-time coach, he's a big-time player. He was conscionable successful the Super Bowl, they got thing to speech about. That's what happened."

"I ain't spot thing incorrect with it."

Both Vrabel and Russini are married, and some denied immoderate wrongdoing. Vrabel joined his wife, Jen, successful 1999, and they person 2 sons together. The 50-year-old manager said the enactment was wholly innocent.

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

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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. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Russini, who joined her hubby Kevin Goldschmidt successful 2020 and they person 2 sons together, said the photos misrepresented what really occurred.

"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 told the New York Post.

Vrabel took the Patriots to the Super Bowl successful his archetypal play arsenic the Patriots caput manager and won NFL Coach of the Year for the 2nd clip successful his career.

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Dianna Russini attends the 2026 Fanatics Super Bowl Party astatine Pier 48 successful San Francisco, California, connected Feb. 7, 2026. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

Russini, 43, joined the The Athletic successful 2023, leaving ESPN aft implicit 8 years.

McCoy played 12 seasons successful the NFL. He spent six with the Philadelphia Eagles, 4 seasons with the Buffalo Bills, 1 with the Kansas City Chiefs, and 1 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The 37-year-old won a Super Bowl with the Chiefs successful 2019 and the Buccaneers successful 2020. In 170 games, McCoy ran for 11,102 yards with 73 touchdowns, portion catching 518 passes for 3,898 yards and 16 touchdowns.

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