Awful Announcing Podcast: Ian Rapoport on Adam Schefter, NFL Network, getting scoops, and more

Host Brandon Contes interviews NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport. Brandon and Ian discuss a wide range of topics including Ian’s relationship with ESPN’s Adam Schefter, The Insiders on NFL Network, various stories about reporting, and more.

Here’s the full breakdown:

• 1:02: How busy is early July for an NFL insider?
• 2:04: Busiest week of the NFL season for an insider
• 3:23: NFL Draft and opinion on tipping picks
• 5:29: Being first to a story in free agency
• 6:58: Competition among insiders inside NFL Network?
• 8:30: Relationship with Adam Schefter
• 10:00: Sources
• 11:42: Local reporters
• 13:02: Giving gifts to sources?
• 14:23: Has Ian ever felt he was being used?
• 15:54: Can Ian be an NBA insider?
• 17:14: Multiple phones?
• 18:29: Story Ian missed breaking because he didn’t have his phone
• 20:40: Most “out of nowhere” scoop
• 22:18: Biggest “swing and a miss” report
• 26:01: Rumors that never got reported
• 27:05: The Insiders
• 27:58: Being on and hosting The Pat McAfee Show
• 29:02: Doing TV

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