Adam Schefter Interview: Draft Rumors, NFL In Bed With Sports Betting, Rigging Rumors, And More (Episode 711)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
ESPN's Adam Schefter goes 1-on-1 with Adam Levitan to talk all things NFL.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
Draft rumors
The NFL and gambling
Does Schefter play Best Ball
NFL's greed
Tons more
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Timestamps:
1:07 - Why Teams Talk To Schefter On The Draft
5:41 - Who May Go Higher Than Expected
7:07 - How Do Teams Know Who Is Available For Trades
9:27 - Is The NFL Rigged?
14:39 - Do Reporters Tell ESPN Bet Before Breaking News?
16:30 - Does Adding Games Damage The NFL?
20:04 - Adam’s Message About Type 1 Diabetes
22:13 - Listener Questions
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to go and Hello and welcome to episode 711 of the official established |
| 0:20.8 | the run. podcast my name is Adam Levitan I am one of the co-founders here at ETR and today we have a very, very, very special guest. Old friend of the show needs no introduction other than the most dominant NFL reporter of our |
| 0:35.2 | generation. Actually when we launched ETR we're coming up on our five year |
| 0:38.4 | anniversary now. Shout out to us. This young man tweeted about the ETR |
| 0:42.2 | launch subsequently broke the site. |
| 0:44.1 | It is of course the one and only Adam Schefter. Adam, how's it going today? |
| 0:48.8 | Adam, I always wanted to be on the 711th episode of it. So it is quite an honor to be with you today and it's been quite a journey to get from one to 500 to 711 and I'll take 711 beautiful. The most prestigious show that Adam has ever done in his life here, |
| 1:04.2 | episode 711 of VTR podcast, of course. |
| 1:06.7 | All right, I don't want to Dilly Dally. |
| 1:08.2 | We don't have too much time here. |
| 1:09.6 | Start with the draft. |
| 1:10.9 | Everybody asks me all the time. |
| 1:12.1 | They say, oh, there's all these rumors out there, |
| 1:14.4 | Shefter's saying this, and other guys are saying this. Why would anyone tell Shefter anything |
| 1:21.1 | about the draft? Because if I'm a GM or I'm a coach or I want X player |
| 1:26.0 | There's just no chance I tell anyone in fact run pretty incentivized to throw Adam Shefter off the scent not onto the scent of what I want to do in the draft. |
| 1:35.2 | So why do you think, or do people tell you stuff around the draft, I guess is a good question. |
| 1:40.3 | Well, I think here's the way to look at it, right? |
| 1:42.4 | Do I think that if I call the New England Patriots today |
| 1:46.0 | and say, who are you taking three, they're just going to say, |
| 1:48.0 | oh, we're taking this guy? |
| 1:50.0 | No. |
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