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And yes i am also confident that this was corroborated before they ran with itSo you have a bombshell and you sit on it for 2 weeks, playing Russian roulette that someone else could break the story, since so many people supposedly knew? Shefty got caught in a sketchy piece of business. You won't change my mind otherwise. He was operating on the outer boundaries on this one. He was lucky that there was some merit to it because, even by his own words;
"This was an accumulation, all during the offseason, of just listening to people talk and observing,” Schefter said. “And if we go back to the NFC Championship Game that the Green Bay Packers lost at home, did we not hear Aaron Rodgers after that game talk about his level of unhappiness, if you will, uncertainty for the future?
"Just go back and listen to that press conference, and it sounds almost like he’s saying goodbye to Green Bay. And so you’re antennas up, and I’m just telling you throughout the course of the offseason, there was rarely a week that went by that I didn’t hear something about Aaron Rodgers.”
“And then people said that the 49ers called, and I said ‘How long until it comes out that Aaron Rodgers wants out of Green Bay? Is it next week? Is it when he doesn’t show to the OTAs? Is it next month?’… It’s going to come out. What does it matter if it comes out now, or next week, or next month?”
“It was nothing that morning that came in… It was going on all offseason, you just keep hearing it, and there was more and more talk and now there starts to be Aaron Rodgers, and I said ‘You know what, this isn’t going to wait much longer,’ and it just happened to be Draft Day.”
Those were his words. He heard talk and listened to others report on it and observed others on the subject. I just think Schefter is sketchy and he got lucky with this one. I hope people look a little harder at his so called inside info and reporting.