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ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter joined the show today and gave some injury updates, discussed how the narrative around the Patriots has shifted around the NFL, talked about the trade deadline, shared a wild story about how he reported that John Elway has a nipple ring, and more!
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00:00Adam, thanks for coming on, man.
00:01We really appreciate it.
00:02What's going on, guys?
00:03Well, we're feeling kind of good.
00:05It's a pants-off dance-off here because we're hearing that we're getting
00:08some important players back on the Patriots.
00:10What are you hearing?
00:11Well, I think I've been saying to you guys for a while that A.J. Brown
00:15was doing well, and I haven't heard anything different.
00:19Now, I don't know that that's going to be enough to get him active on Sunday.
00:23Well, my guess would be it is.
00:26But, look, he's not far away.
00:29If he doesn't play this week, and I think there's a chance
00:32he's going to play this week.
00:33That's awesome.
00:34And, obviously, I think Christian Gonzalez, basically straight –
00:38Yeah, he's in.
00:40What are you hearing about Will Campbell?
00:43That doesn't sound as promising.
00:44I think that sounds like it could be a little bit of time.
00:47But I'll also say that sometimes offensive linemen, they're pretty tough.
00:50They often play through a lot.
00:52So, I don't know how that one won't play out just yet.
00:55Adam, I'm curious if you've heard anything about the Week 8 matchup
00:59between the Eagles and Commanders.
01:00It's supposed to be a Sunday night football game,
01:02but you can start flexing games after, I guess, for that window,
01:06particularly after Week 5.
01:08But, you know, the Eagles are 2-3, Commanders 1-3.
01:12Do you anticipate that game getting flexed?
01:14Do you look at some of the other games on the slate?
01:17There's not a lot of really good games to choose from.
01:19How do you think that will play out?
01:22Is that unusual to be flexed that early in the season?
01:25Look, I haven't seen the flex schedule.
01:27I don't know how many times NBC is allowed to flex.
01:29And the other thing I would say is those are two big markets.
01:32And Washington's still alive.
01:34So, I guess, you know, you don't see a network flex out of two NFC East markets like that.
01:44Yeah.
01:44Very often.
01:45I think I'd be surprised, but I don't know the intermachinations of how that's going to work with NBC.
01:51Adam, we follow the Bills here very closely, obviously, and they had a big win,
01:55but the defense still looked like it has some problems Monday night.
01:58Do you think Buffalo will be active as we get closer to the trade deadline for any help on that
02:03side?
02:03I think all Super Bowl teams, Super Bowl contenders, are always looking to be buyers.
02:09It doesn't mean that they make any moves, but they're going to be checking into a lot of different players.
02:15Just how they work it.
02:16Buffalo is always checking to people.
02:18Would I be surprised if Buffalo made a move?
02:20No.
02:20They know they have an opportunity, a chance.
02:23They're going to do everything they can to maximize that.
02:26Doesn't mean that they want it making a deal.
02:27If the cost is too prohibitive, they wouldn't.
02:29But they'll be on the phone making calls.
02:32Do you see the Patriots making any calls?
02:34I was thinking specifically running back with Travion Henderson being out,
02:38but there might be some other positions that I'm not aware of.
02:40Do you see the Patriots being active?
02:43I think they'll make calls.
02:44I think that they felt like they were pretty good at running back.
02:48I felt like last year they could have done that, and they didn't.
02:51Right?
02:51So, you know, we'll see how that goes.
02:54But to me, they'll be making calls, and we'll see whether that translates into any actual players.
03:01How about the state of the Jets, Adam?
03:03I know you're down in New York quite a bit.
03:05You have the pulse of that city.
03:06What should we know about the Jets approaching this matchup on Sunday?
03:11They have been improved.
03:13I think it's a situation where I think they're playing better football.
03:18There's a lot of good young talent there.
03:20They're not there yet, but they're on their way.
03:23David Bailey, their number one pick, is really making an impact at three sacks last week.
03:33And, look, I think that they're a better football team.
03:36The Jets have really struggled to win in recent years.
03:38I'm not telling you they're going to win on Sunday, but I'm just saying, like, this team's tougher, feistier, more
03:43talented, and they're a tougher out.
03:47Adam, I'm going a little bit off the grid on this question.
03:49I'm just curious because you send out tweets all day long, every day.
03:53Have you ever done a deep dive analysis on your Twitter account?
03:56Like, how many tweets do you average a day or a year?
03:59And I was always curious, do you do the tweeting yourself, or do you have some kind of technology where
04:04you can do the audio thing?
04:05Does someone do it for you?
04:07How does putting tweets out work for you?
04:09I put out all my own stuff, all my own stuff, 99.9% of it.
04:15And the only ones I don't put out are sometimes if we have a feature that runs on ESPN and
04:20we want to post it, I want to post it.
04:23I'll say to the social media team, I don't know how to reduce the video to get it poked.
04:26Can you help me out there?
04:27Short of that, I'm posting everything.
04:30Now watch.
04:31Now I'll get hacked and somebody will post something.
04:35It reminds me of the story.
04:36It reminds me of this is a true story.
04:38True story.
04:39There was a time, John Elway was always very fascinated about how things worked.
04:44And so he's like, do you write the headlines in the story?
04:46I'm like, I write the stories, John.
04:47I don't write the headlines.
04:49But if it's in the story, I wrote it.
04:52And he's like, okay.
04:55Well, literally that was on a Friday.
04:58And on Sunday, they played the Chargers and they won the game.
05:01And me and the fellow writers of the Denver Post had always collaborated in a notebook.
05:05And I opened up the newspaper on Monday morning.
05:07And the headline was, Elway gets a nipple ring by Adam Schefter.
05:13And I was like, what the hell is this?
05:16And I start reading it.
05:17It's got my name on it.
05:19So like, I don't understand.
05:21I thought somebody sent it in after the game.
05:23John Elway was sporting a nipple ring.
05:24And he said he lost a bet to his wife, Janet.
05:27And I'm like, this is bizarre.
05:29Okay.
05:29And I guess somebody sent it in.
05:31And so I go out to the complex like 7 in the morning.
05:34And I'm waiting in the players' parking lot.
05:35And John pulls up.
05:36And I see him.
05:37And he sees me.
05:38And he does a beeline right towards me.
05:39He's like, did you write that?
05:41And I said, no.
05:42He said, I thought you told me, Friday, you write everything.
05:45I'm like, I didn't write it.
05:46Well, it became like a whole thing that was investigated by the Columbia Journalism Review.
05:51Somehow, some way, somebody hacked into the Denver Post system and filed that.
05:56And they included it.
05:57And it was wild.
05:58So I don't know how I got there, but I did.
06:01What famous NFL coaches have nipple rings, Adam Schefter?
06:06I'd have to do some deep dive investigating to find that out.
06:11All right.
06:11So I want to ask you about, like, you talk to all the people, you know, all around the league.
06:15And I want to find out, how has the perception of the Patriots changed over the last couple of weeks?
06:21Are people buying into it?
06:23I think the one thing that shifted, the one thing that shifted clearly,
06:28is there was this big conversation slash narrative about what's wrong with Drake May.
06:34Has he regressed?
06:35What's going wrong?
06:37Is he going to fall back into being a bad quarter?
06:41I don't tell you, you guys lived it, I'm sure.
06:44Right?
06:45Yeah.
06:46And that conversation seems to have gone by the wayside for the time being.
06:49Like, he's coming off two great games.
06:51The game he played Sunday was about as well as he's ever played.
06:54And I don't hear too many people questioning and wondering about how effective and good Drake May is right now.
07:00So I think that's where the shift has come with this team.
07:04And if the quarterback is playing the way he did the last two games, then they're going to win a
07:09lot of games and be a formidable team.
07:12If he's playing the way that he did earlier in the year, they're not.
07:15And, you know, football, for as complex as it is, it's often that simple, right?
07:20If the quarterback's playing great like he has, the team is often going to be very prosperous and benefit from
07:29that.
07:29All right, Adam, we've got some listeners who have some questions for you.
07:32They left them on a request line here, our little recorded line.
07:34And so we've got two here.
07:37Stiz, let it roll if you don't mind.
07:38Hey, Adam, this is Larry from New Hampshire.
07:41After the first five weeks of the NFL, who's your most disappointing team and who's your most surprising team?
07:49Well, Larry from New Hampshire, I appreciate the question.
07:51I like this feature, like taking questions from the callers.
07:54That's pretty cool.
07:55Hell yeah.
07:55I would say that the most disappointing team has to be the Los Angeles Chargers.
08:00Nobody would have thought that they would be winless at this point in time, playing the way they are.
08:04But that's where they're at.
08:06And I think San Francisco, like there were some bad vibes on that team.
08:11Kyle Shanahan's car accident, the owner of Jed York's arrest, injuries mounting up, and here they are still unbeaten, which
08:19is pretty impressive to me.
08:20Yeah, Brock Purdy, I still don't think until this season he's gotten the respect he deserves.
08:26But now I think he's like number one right now if you go to any of the betting sites for
08:31MVP and absolutely deserves it.
08:32But he is playing out of his mind right now.
08:35Yeah, they've been very impressive to me.
08:37Yep, they have.
08:38All right, let's go to our next and final question.
08:41Hello, Mr. Shafter.
08:42My name is Mark, and I had a quick question for you.
08:45I was wondering, in all the years of you covering the NFL, who is your favorite athlete that you've covered?
08:57Well, I'll say this, and I'm not just saying this because of who I'm talking to, but I always got
09:07a kick out of dealing with Tom Brady.
09:10In the limited interactions that we did have, you know, we interacted with some of the Best Buddies events in
09:18the Boston area, Super Bowls when he was a free agent.
09:24And honestly, what a nice guy.
09:26Like, what a nice guy.
09:27He really is.
09:28Like, that would be one of the more notable interactions.
09:31Like, it's fun interacting with some people that have made such a mark on the game.
09:36You know, Peyton Manning has been unbelievable.
09:37And he used to text, you know, Chris Mortensen some of the things he used to work on post-playing
09:43days, and even probably during playing days.
09:45And now sometimes, you know, I'll get texts from Peyton.
09:47Hey, here's my new show.
09:48Take a look.
09:48Take a look.
09:49And I think he likes to get that feedback the way he used it for more from me.
09:53So, you know, you're talking about two of the greatest quarterbacks, players in NFL history.
09:58That always feels like it's meaningful.
10:02You know what, Adam?
10:02It wasn't until, like, near the end of his playing career that even us as Patriots fans knew much about
10:09Tom Brady because he was kind of a nice guy.
10:12Yeah, he is.
10:13Well, can you, I mean, Ted played with him, so he knows that.
10:15But is there anything you can tell us about Tom Brady that maybe the public doesn't know about him?
10:22I don't know that.
10:23But, I mean, I think the public knows, you know, a lot about him.
10:25But, again, I just stick to my initial.
10:27I think he's a genuinely nice person, like nicer than people realize.
10:33Like, I was one of those Best Buddy events, and he's a star, and here he is at these events
10:38all weekend interacting with kids.
10:39So genuine, so real, so nice.
10:42And that always stayed with me.
10:44Him and Guy Fieri hanging out, having a good time with those things.
10:46Right, Adam Schefter?
10:47Yeah.
10:48And sometimes I'd be lurking in the background.
10:52All right, Adam Schefter, great stuff.
10:53Thanks for coming on with us.
10:54We really appreciate it, Adam.
10:55And I like those calls.
10:57That's a nice little feature.
10:58We'll keep doing it, Adam.
10:59We'll keep doing it, buddy.
11:00Thanks, Adam.
11:01Thank you, guys.
11:01Have a great day, Adam.
11:02We'll keep doing it, Adam.