Chase Daniel addressed his former podcast co-host Dianna Russini and her relationship with Mike Vrabel for the first time.<\/p>\n
Daniel launched Scoop City with Russini for The Athletic prior to the 2024 NFL season, but episodes stopped in early March of this year, nearly one month before Page Six published the first round of photos depicting a possible extramarital relationship between Russini and Vrabel.<\/p>\n
This week, Chase Daniel appeared on The Jim Rome Show, where he made his first comments about the ever-growing list of headlines around Russini and Vrabel.<\/p>\n
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About one hour into the above video, Rome noted the podcast Daniel had with Dianna Russini, and asked whether he\u2019s been able to speak with his former co-host since the story broke.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, that\u2019s something that\u2019s just unfortunate in many different ways. And we haven\u2019t really chatted about it,\u201d Daniel admitted. \u201cWe haven\u2019t done any of that, so I\u2019m going to leave that there. That\u2019s their business. It has turned into quite the assignment of everything, it\u2019s like TMZ is covering it, the Wall Street Journal, all these things are covering it, so I\u2019m sure she\u2019ll land on her feet somewhere and that\u2019s all I\u2019ll really say about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The comment wasn\u2019t quite as supportive as the job offer Stugotz<\/a> extended to Russini, with Daniel seeming much more focused on trying not to say anything too noteworthy. And in another decade, Rome may have pressed Daniel for a more interesting quote. But the modern version of Jim Rome took a more considerate approach, responding with, \u201cI can respect that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last month, The Athletic confirmed to Awful Announcing<\/a> Scoop City is \u201cin transition.\u201d If the podcast does return, it will likely be with new co-hosts, as a source told Awful Announcing Daniel\u2019s contract for the show expired, and Dianna Russini has since resigned from The Athletic amid an internal investigation into her relationship with Vrabel.<\/p>\n
In addition to working as a part-time studio and game analyst with ESPN, Daniel recently teased<\/a> building something new for the fall.<\/p>\n
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