Super Bowl champion Ryan Clark blasted the New England Patriots on "Inside the NFL" for how they complied with the NFL's Rooney Rule when they hired Mike Vrabel.

Ryan Clark, former Super Bowl champion and ESPN analyst, criticizes the New England Patriots for their handling of the Rooney Rule during their recent head-coaching search, reigniting debates about NFL diversity efforts.

In searching for the successor to Jerod Mayo, the New England Patriots adhered to the ‘Rooney Rule’ — not in practice, but merely in principle.

People in New England reportedly “disapproved” of the team’s handling of the Rooney Rule in the head coach search

Mike Vrabel is believed to be the frontrunner for the head coaching job in New England, and the team quickly cleared a path to hiring him by interviewing former Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich and former Houston Texans offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton on Tuesday.

Former NFL GM Rod Graves criticized the Patriots' usage of the Rooney Rule by interviewing two black candidates before hiring Mike Vrabel.

The Patriots announced they completed interviews with Byron Leftwich and Pep Hamilton on Tuesday. That makes them the first team to comply with the Rooney Rule, which requires teams to conduct in-person interviews with at least two minority candidates.

The Patriots hired Vrabel soon after a couple of interviews with two Black former assistant coaches, Pep Hamilton and Byron ... unfixable problem with the Rooney Rule. There is no rule that ...

The Patriots are searching for a new coach after firing Jerod Mayo on Sunday following a brutal first season at the helm.

One NFL Insider called the Patriots' head coaching search a "sham" aimed at circumventing the league's Rooney Rule

After the Patriots’ hiring of Vrabel became official over the weekend, Jones spent several minutes on his podcast The Right Time discussing why the team interviewing Pep Hamilton and Byron ...

Those two interviews satisfied the Rooney Rule, which states that teams must ... We have completed interviews with Byron Leftwich and Pep Hamilton for our head coach position.