Here's the specific inquiry, from the transcript distributed by the Patriots: "You said this offseason that you were seeking counseling. I wanted to follow up on that and see what you learned from that counseling, and how did you balance that personal commitment with getting ready for this season?"
"I think we always look at improvement," Vrabel said. "As we talk about getting ready for the next season, we always look at improvement and ways that we can improve individually and how we can improve as a team. It’s really critical that we continue to do that on and off the field. I believe in that. I believe in everything that we can do to help this football team, to help our coaches, to help myself and everybody else included. This journey that we are going to go on is going to be completely different than the one we went on last year. That’s all of our jobs, is to prepare for it now. So, really focused on our improvement individually and as a team, and that’s something that we can do today. You look at the O-line, and we talk about them and their ability to play together as a unit. There are so many combination blocks that they are involved in, and we have to be better. Again, five O-linemen have to be able to sustain a line of scrimmage, and I just walked into that meeting room and said, 'How do we improve? How do we improve our combination blocks?' We are not asking you to block everybody 1-on-1. So, I think we all have areas that we can improve on, and that includes the coaches."
In other words, Vrabel isn't inclined to get into something that happened several months ago. He has moved on, the team has moved on, and barring The Athletic publishing its internal investigation of Russini (if it ever does) or Russini telling her story publicly, everyone else will move on, too.
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