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And free agency is in full swing.

And that means we have four consecutive days of refreshing Adam Schaefter's Twitter feed.

So we are breaking out our favorite episode, my personal favorite episode, this second annual

Adam Schaefter free agency drinking game.

So we're going to read Adam Schaefter's tweets in chronological order, because it's really the best way to kind of just summarize everything. And we're going to make a drinking game out of it because his Twitter feeds really weird and it's fun. So we thought of this last year because as Danny Kelly loves to point out, Adam Schaefter's kind of terrible at Twitter. Is he not, D.K.? Well, first of all, yeah, just the way he tweets, like the actual language he uses is bizarre.

It's his own little syntax. I don't know how to explain it.

Chefterian. Yeah. Chefterian. It's a unique style of writing syntax. I do not understand where it comes from, but that's part of it.

Sometimes it comes straight out his derrier. It's just like so many, way too many commas, weird order of words. It's like he's writing in Latin and then translating it to English or something. Like, I don't understand how it comes out. And he's been doing it for a while. You know, you think he'd have the hang of it by now. Well, I think the real answer to this is that Schaefter's writing style is he just copies and paste text messages he gets from agents. So his writing style is the writing style of all the agents that are texting him. And that's not even an exaggeration because this morning, he had the same tweet at the same time as a reporter from NFL Network. Like it was very specific sentence. Yeah. And it was like very strange wording. And they posted the same tweet at the same time. And it's like, well, they probably just got the same text at the same time and tweeted it immediately. And it was pretty embarrassing. It's amazing how quickly they get those tweets and then like seven different reporters like have

the like within the same 20 seconds it's unbelievable it's like incredible but that's kind of how it works

though that's kind of how the sausage is made it's like people tell chefter what to say and he tweets it

and he i mean he once sent a team president a draft of a story he wrote for his span and he called

him mr editor to a team president like it's not journalism's more public relations. And he gets heat for it. Like last week, Schaeftre had a pretty disgusting tweet about Deshawn Watson that was kind of just carrying water for Deshawn Watson's lawyers. And people got mad at Schaefter, which rightfully so, the tweet he had was disgusting. But that's what what Schefter does every day. He lets agents and he lets

lawyers kind of write his tweets a little bit or dictate them. And in exchange, he gets scoops. And then there's a day like today, and he has all of the scoops. And that's kind of how it happens. So literally, he's not even like, it's not journalism. It's information brokering. It's like he is the broker of information.

He gets to, like you said, he trades scoops for information.

And therefore, like you get these terrible water carrying tweets like we saw on Friday or whatever it was.

And so anyways, we just want to acknowledge that like Schifter's tweeting is very bizarre and weird, but he is also the like NFL Twitter account to follow during these times. So that's that's where this game comes from.

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