00:00You know, I want to take you back a little bit to last weekend when I had my producer, Robert,
00:05give me some information that Kyle Shanahan was in a car accident.
00:10And I was like, wow, Kyle Shanahan was in a car accident, breaking news.
00:16He's like, no, no, no, this is when we went to timeout.
00:20No, no, no, this happened three weeks ago.
00:22What?
00:24The head football coach of the San Francisco 49ers was in a severe car accident and nobody knew anything about
00:33it.
00:33This is more of an indictment on journalism today than it is about the actual incident.
00:40And it also questions the relationship between ESPN and the National Football League.
00:46So let me give you context of what I'm saying here on this.
00:50So when I got told the story that Kyle Shanahan was in a car accident, I had no understanding that
00:56it was a month ago almost.
00:58So I went back and looked at the timelines for Adam Schefter, ESPN, and how they posted it.
01:04So the story broke.
01:06And within a minute, ESPN had a full story on what had happened to Kyle Shanahan in this car accident.
01:16He had broken his nose, lacerations to the face.
01:20He had broken ribs, numerous other injuries, and he is going to miss training camp.
01:26And there was a conversation that he could potentially miss the opener against the Rams in Melbourne, Australia.
01:32Then you take a look at Adam Schefter.
01:35Another minute after that, he puts out a complete dossier of what happened.
01:41This questions the journalism.
01:44We just went through Diana Rossini and her practices on how she went and got information.
01:50So let me get this right.
01:52The National Football League, who owns 10% of ESPN, is embargoing stories and letting us know when certain guys
02:02are injured and what have you so that they can get ahead of stories?
02:08How do you trust the journalists that are covering the sport that you love or any sport when these people
02:14have a working relationship with the National Football League?
02:18How can you believe anything that comes out of the league when you've got a relationship with a place that
02:24has 10% ownership in ESPN?
02:27When the NFL Network was sold, ESPN gave the NFL 10% of the network.
02:35How do you trust anything that comes out of the journalists that are covering the sport when you're embargoing stories?
02:45Look, my job is not to be in bed with an NFL team or a league.
02:50My job is to give my viewers and my listeners storylines, and I want to talk about things that they
02:58haven't been able to cover yet.
03:00I want to give you intel on why this happened.
03:04How can you call yourself a journalist when you're holding stories?
03:08How do you know you're not being fed poor information to put stories out?
03:14We just got through going through Diana Rossini.
03:18Now we're watching this.
03:20Go look at the timelines.
03:23ESPN, Adam Schefter, the whole thing with gambling, Schefter in bed with Bob Kraft.
03:29And those betting apps that they're having partnership with.
03:33He's also with a relationship with DraftKings.
03:39Don't tell me that journalism is alive when you're seeing stories like this.
03:44Kyle Shanahan is considered, the Athletic just put it out this last week, as the best coordinator in pro football.
03:51So the best guy and the best play caller in pro football was in a severe car accident, and the
03:58National Football League didn't think that that was a story.
04:01I heard Dan Patrick all week talking, going, there's something wrong with this here.
04:08And totally something wrong with it.
04:10You talk about not covering the sport, and you work with the NFL?
04:18If you're not putting stories out, you are an employee of a National Football League team.
04:25Your job is to go out and serve your viewers, not serve the team that you're covering.
04:33You've lost me.
04:34I mean, we just went through, like I said, the Diana Rossini, people throwing shade on her and how she
04:40got her information.
04:41And wrongfully so.
04:43But at the end of the day, what's the difference here when you've got ESPN and all the rest of
04:49these guys?
04:49And again, there's a collection and a group of guys that get these text messages all the time on storylines.
04:57That Jalen Carter deal, once it got done, the defensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles,
05:03Adam Schefter had all the particulars on everything inside that contract, including a weight loss clause that was in the
05:11contract.
05:11How can you be that detailed on a story on a contract, but then be three weeks late on the
05:19head football coach of the San Francisco 49ers being in a severe car wreck?
05:26Was there alcohol related?
05:28Is there an issue with the police?
05:32This is a shaky story, to say the least.
05:37And the lines went up and down, just to keep that in context.
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