One-on-One with ESPN's Adam Schefter: Is it Rigged for the Chiefs, State of NFL Injury Reporting, Will the Tush Push be Banned? (Episode 839)

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Adam Levitan sits down with ESPN’s Adam Schefter to get his opinion on the hottest topics from the 2024 NFL Season

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In this episode, we discuss:
- Schefter’s thoughts on people who claim the NFL is rigged for the Chiefs
- Whether the 49ers hid the severity of Christian McCaffrey’s early-season injury
- Finding a work/life balance in a industry that new stops
- Breaking news in the bedroom whilst on a date
- How likely it is for an 18th game to be added

Timestamps:
0:54 - “The NFL is Rigged For The Chiefs”

4:13 - The Advancements of Referees & Technology

6:49 - Did The 49ers Hide Christian McCaffrey’s Injury?

11:42 - Bringing Back The Probable Tag

13:56 - 2024 Running Backs: An Outlier or A New Trend?

18:46 - College Football and NIL

21:24 - Breaking News During Sex

23:01 - Woj’s Burnout and Journalism's Work/Life Balance

28:59 - Listener Questions
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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 838 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast.
0:22.0	My name is Adam Levittan, and today we have a very, very, very special guest.
0:28.1	You know him as the man who controls the flow of NFL information with an iron fist.
0:33.7	I know him as the man who lives and dies with his $0 buy-in fantasy football team.
0:39.5	It is, of course, the one and only Adam Schaefter of ESPN.
0:44.0	Adam, happy Super Bowl Week.
0:45.3	How's it going?
0:46.1	Hello there, Adam.
0:46.8	How are you doing?
0:48.1	Doing great.
0:49.0	Okay.
0:50.0	We have a lot of time here.
0:51.5	It's Super Bowl Week.
0:52.4	We've got to get right into it. I am a bit sad, I would say, because it feels to me like the, quote, unquote, NFL is rigged
1:01.1	for the chiefs crowd and the quote unquote NFL is scripted for the chiefs crowd is louder than
1:06.9	ever. And I thought that it was just a bunch of brain dead conspiracy theorists and whiners, but I've come to realize that millions of actual reasonable humans and
1:17.8	NFL fans now actually think the NFL is rigged. I'm curious what you think of that, what the
1:24.7	NFL thinks of that, or any more thoughts on this whole, it's rigged for the Chiefs talk.
1:30.5	I would just say that I don't believe that, despite what other people think.
1:35.7	I don't buy into that. I think every great player over time gets the benefit of the doubt.
1:42.6	Michael Jordan got the benefit of the doubt. LeBron James gets the benefit of the doubt. Michael Jordan got the benefit of the doubt. LeBron James
1:46.0	gets the benefit of the doubt. Tom Brady got the benefit of the doubt because they deserve it.
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