2/18/2015: Schefter Blows Up ESPN's Earlier Story

I hope Jim McNally has some good lawyers. Cause he is in line for a nice payday from ESPN.

Dr Pain said:

So I am a reff who will steal a $100 ball during the AFC championship game which was supposed to go to charity but I can be trusted not to take a $100k bribe to fix a game? NFL has big problems and this should be the story now. (I know I am dreaming)

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Boy, you think those smart reporters would have figured this out...

Attaboy, Mike!

Mike Reiss ✔ @MikeReiss
On @ESPNBoston, latest story with new @AdamSchefter information on K balls, NFL official & locker room attendant. http://es.pn/1DDrWOq

JMC00 said:

The only really thing from NFL.com since this thing started has been Rapoport's report that only 1 ball was 2 PSI under the rest were just a few ticks under.

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Indeed. IDK about NFL Network (they obviously have a couple bitter ex-players) but NFL.com has been decent to us, which is more than be said for most sites.

mosi said:

Boy, you think those smart reporters would have figured this out...

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Tweet it away. I am. "a reff who steals a $100 ball from charity during a champ game can be trusted not to take a $100k bribe to fix a game?"

shmessy said:

BTW, folks - - here is the video of Schefter breaking into the OTL show to drop his bomb!

ESPN seems to be ignoring it, and will probably do a Pravda and whitewash what Schefter broke.

Here for eternity (until ESPN washes the internet) is the video. My guess is that Mr. Schefter is not popular with ESPN's management right now:

http://deadspin.com/whats-up-with-this-adam-schefter-ballghazi-report-1686622313

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The new ESPN article still makes it seem as though the Patriots were behind it. First off, by not naming the employee as a referee. Second, by not clearing McNally's name.

patsfan06 said:

I hope Jim McNally has some good lawyers. Cause he is in line for a nice payday from ESPN.

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I don't see why. They reported the truth.

No matter how much the league resists Kraft's demand for an apology, we can be confident McNally will be exonerated clearly and by name in the report, just as ESPN is exonerating him now. When it's all over, Kraft should send him a nice "Sorry you had to go through this" bonus check, but that's about the extent of it.

It's amazing how many leaks there were throughout this "investigation," yet the league hid a thief who stole from charity for a month.

Actually, I'm not that amazed. That's Goodell's NFL.

shmessy said:

Attaboy, Mike!

Mike Reiss ✔ @MikeReiss
On @ESPNBoston, latest story with new @AdamSchefter information on K balls, NFL official & locker room attendant. http://es.pn/1DDrWOq

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Mike has been good. He reacted a bit quickly to the original story but still maintained the word "IF" but otherwise he has come around quickly and realized how ridiculous this crap is

upstater1 said:

Second, by not clearing McNally's name.

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Reiss et al. are clearing McNally's name.

The media never get into trouble if the "only" things wrong in what they do are:

• Honest errors.
• Failure to give corrections the same visibility as the original errors.

Kdo5 said:

Mike has been good. He reacted a bit quickly to the original story but still maintained the word "IF" but otherwise he has come around quickly and realized how ridiculous this crap is

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Especially since one of the worst pieces of incorrect reporting was by his colleague Mort, and he initially obligated to accept it as accurate.

Deus Irae said:

Probably at the same 1 star restaurant that Goodell will be working at in a few months.

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I'm guessing Roger has a couple bucks stashed in a piggy bank somewhere.

Fencer said:

Especially since one of the worst pieces of incorrect reporting was by his colleague Mort, and he initially obligated to accept it as accurate.

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People make mistakes. I'm not going to chastise Mike over it. He is one of the good guys as I see it.

Jlaff said:

That's what I said! Why isn't this being picked up as the biggest issue to come out of this?

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I'm sure he didn't steal the charity ball. 1 of 1 will be noticed. He stole another ball meant for the game since nobody cares what happens to them after the game. Still corrupt obviously.

Fencer said:

Reiss et al. are clearing McNally's name.

The media never get into trouble if the "only" things wrong in what they do are:

• Honest errors.
• Failure to give corrections the same visibility as the original errors.

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The problem is that Mort and OTL are national, Reiss is regional.

The entire country sees incorrect reporting that the Patriots tried to cheat. The Boston market sees the correction.

ESPN does have an Ombudsman and I'd encourage everyone to file a complaint. The ombudsman suspended Bill Simmons for 3 weeks for some mean things he wrote about Goodell. I'd think fraudulent reporting from sham sources should also be worth something.

Edit: Their ombudsman finished his term and they haven't replaced him as far as I can tell. How convenient.

Brady_to_Moss said:

I am HAMMERING Kravitz on twitter

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Here is how kravitz reports the latest developments -- says one thing has nothing to do with the other -- wow, just wow.

http://www.wthr.com/story/28138278/kravitz-blog-the-latest-on-deflategate-raises-more-questions

Jlaff said:

That's what I said! Why isn't this being picked up as the biggest issue to come out of this?

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Why would that discussion come from this, when it wasn't any of the refs that did this? I just think people are confused with the word "official" here when it's just an official NFL employee. Not "official" as in ref.

Fencer said:

I don't see why. They reported the truth.

No matter how much the league resists Kraft's demand for an apology, we can be confident McNally will be exonerated clearly and by name in the report, just as ESPN is exonerating him now. When it's all over, Kraft should send him a nice "Sorry you had to go through this" bonus check, but that's about the extent of it.

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Yeah, like Kraft hasn't been dragged through the mud on this??????

The bonus check shouldn't be coming from one of the victims, Fencer.

It should be coming from the perps.

Dr Pain said:

Tweet it away. I am. "a reff who steals a $100 ball from charity during a champ game can be trusted not to take a $100k bribe to fix a game?"

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It wasn't a ref. Just an employee that, from all info we've gotten, would have absolutely no way to fix a game.

Spreading miss information, like you are trying to do in the opposite direction from deflate gate, isn't exactly helping the big problem that people report anything they hear without any fact checking.

Fencer said:

Reiss et al. are clearing McNally's name.

The media never get into trouble if the "only" things wrong in what they do are:

• Honest errors.
• Failure to give corrections the same visibility as the original errors.

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There is a considerable difference between an honest error and repetitive slander.