Mike Vrabel finally addressed the scandal and the NFL still refusing to investigate tampering is absurd

Mike Vrabel finally said something.

After laying low for days, Vrabel got in front of a microphone and admitted he’s had hard conversations with his family, his staff, and his players. He said making good decisions starts with him. Fine. That’s the public statement he had to make.

But that still does not touch the part that actually matters.

Nobody cares about the tabloid side of this. The NFL does not need to investigate who Mike Vrabel is sleeping with. That is not the issue. The issue is whether Vrabel or anyone around him was feeding Dianna Russini information that could help the Patriots.

That is where this gets stupid.

Mike Vrabel and the tampering angle

Before Russini resigned, she was pushing the idea that AJ Brown ending up in New England felt like a done deal. That is where people started connecting the dots. Not because of gossip. Because it looked like someone may have been using media leaks to push a football agenda.

And somehow the NFL looked at all of that and said there is nothing to investigate.

That is a joke.

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If a connected reporter is personally involved with a head coach, and she is also floating trade talk that would benefit his team, the league should probably ask a few questions. That should not be controversial. That should be common sense.

Instead, they just waved it off and moved on like everyone is supposed to be dumb enough to ignore what is right in front of them.

Mike Vrabel spoke, but he did not answer anything

Vrabel’s statement was just damage control. He said the right words. He owned that he had tough conversations. He made it sound like everything is being handled behind closed doors.

Cool. That still does not answer whether any team-related information was being passed around.

That is the whole point.

If the NFL actually cared about tampering, it would want to know where Russini got her confidence from when she kept tying AJ Brown to the Patriots. It would want to know whether Vrabel or someone in his circle was involved. It would want to know if team business was being discussed through a back channel.

Instead, nothing.

That is why this whole thing still stinks. Mike Vrabel finally addressing the scandal does not make it go away. It just means he finally had to say something. The bigger problem is the NFL acting like the tampering angle is not worth its time.