Michael Wilbon isn't ready to say ESPN's NFL reporting can't be trusted now that the league owns a piece of the network. But he's also not pretending the question is out of bounds, either.
Appearing on the Awful Announcing Podcast with host Brandon Contes, Wilbon was asked whether ESPN's NFL coverage still merits trust now that the league holds a 10 percent equity stake in the network.
"My answer to that philosophically is trust," he said. "I wouldn't go as far as can't trust. View skeptically? OK."
Wilbon grounded his trust in ESPN's individual reporters in decades spent covering the league himself, name-checking Adam Schefter specifically and pointing to a wider array of NFL reporters he knew personally well before any of them worked for ESPN — some of whom, he noted, aren't even on television regularly anymore but still do the reporting that matters."
"I know how good Adam Schefter is," Wilbon continued. "Do I trust Adam Schefter? You ****** right I do."
#schefter
Appearing on the Awful Announcing Podcast with host Brandon Contes, Wilbon was asked whether ESPN's NFL coverage still merits trust now that the league holds a 10 percent equity stake in the network.
"My answer to that philosophically is trust," he said. "I wouldn't go as far as can't trust. View skeptically? OK."
Wilbon grounded his trust in ESPN's individual reporters in decades spent covering the league himself, name-checking Adam Schefter specifically and pointing to a wider array of NFL reporters he knew personally well before any of them worked for ESPN — some of whom, he noted, aren't even on television regularly anymore but still do the reporting that matters."
"I know how good Adam Schefter is," Wilbon continued. "Do I trust Adam Schefter? You ****** right I do."
#schefter
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