{"id":891441,"date":"2026-05-15T00:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/891441\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:15:15","slug":"chargers-troll-mike-vrabel-dianna-russini-in-hilarious-2026-schedule-release-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/891441\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers troll Mike Vrabel, Dianna Russini in hilarious 2026 schedule release video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chargers troll Mike Vrabel, Dianna Russini in hilarious 2026 schedule release video<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 2026 NFL schedule release videos are here, and the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> didn’t hold back on New England Patriots<\/a> head coach Mike Vrabel.<\/p>\n

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Vrabel has been involved in a highly publicized scandal involving his relationship<\/a> with former The Athletic NFL reporter Dianna Russini, which has spanned for a few years.<\/p>\n

Over the last month, photos and videos of Vrabel with Russini have surfaced<\/a>, dating back to the Patriots head coach’s days with the Tennessee Titans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is relevant to the NFL schedule release videos because teams like to poke fun at their opponents in these videos, and the Chargers didn’t hold back on Vrabel and Russini.<\/p>\n

Chargers schedule release video trolls Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini<\/p>\n

With Los Angeles<\/a> set to play New England<\/a> in Week 12, the Chargers’ social media team included the Patriots in their Halo-themed schedule release video<\/a>, and poked fun at the Vrabel-Ruyssini situation.<\/p>\n

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In the video, a notification from the New York Post pops up, the publication that has been reporting much of the scandal.<\/a><\/p>\n

The video also includes a sign that reads “Next Photo Dump 1 Mile,” likely referring to the photos that have surfaced with Vrabel and Russini.<\/p>\n

The Chargers are known for making hilarious schedule release videos and having a strong presence on their social media accounts, so this shouldn’t come as a surprise.<\/p>\n

It should also be noted that the NFL isn’t going to get involved in stopping teams<\/a> from using Vrabel’s scandal in their videos, so it was inevitable that a team would use the story in its schedule release.<\/p>\n

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As for Vrabel and the Patriots, the story involving their head coach doesn’t look like it’s going away anytime soon. It could follow the team heading into the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chargers troll Mike Vrabel, Dianna Russini in hilarious 2026 schedule release video originally appeared on The Sporting News.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[241,6164,7,1014,262,2444,2443,838,118881,1167,249,6,394,5340],"class_list":["post-891441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-chargers","tag-chargers","tag-dianna-russini","tag-football","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleschargers","tag-mike-vrabel","tag-mike-vrabel-dianna-russini","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-the-chargers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116575713593173865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}