Mike Florio isn’t cool with Adam Schefter’s reporting hence trashing him and calling his reporting “irresponsible”. He also revealed that their friendship is broken.
Florio believes Adam’s tweet about Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson staying put in Detroit is irresponsible.
Adam’s tweet read;
“Ben Johnson was not the head-coaching lock that people thought and his asking price spooked some teams, per sources”.
Florio came hard at Adam for not providing more context to his tweet.
“I want to preface this by saying there was once a time Adam Schefter and I are friends, we currently aren’t. I’m just amazed that he can get away with stuff that others can’t get away with. I’m not saying he’s going to get away with this, I’m pointing it out currently.
Throwing out there the idea that Ben Johnson’s asking price spooked teams with no further information, with no further context, with no opportunity for Johnson or his agent to respond to this suggestion, seems irresponsible to me. And I would get dragged if I did it.
“But you put this out there to 10.7 million followers on X and it’s treated as gospel. ‘Ben Johnson is unreasonable, Ben Johnson is unrealistic, Ben Johnson is too big for his britches.’ I want to know more about this. What was the number? Is it reasonable to be spooked by the amount Ben Johnson supposedly wanted? Is it 10, is it 15, is it 20 million? I don’t know. And is it true? Or is it just face-saving by the Commanders, who had been linked so closely to Ben Johnson?
“He says no, ‘It still smells like Dan Snyder in here’ or words to that effect, stays in Detroit, and now they make it about him and not about them. So, that one tweet has a lot of curiosity that it sparks. And I feel like it’s not something that you put out there without more — and at a minimum, without giving Johnson a chance to refute it, explain it, comment on it, confirm it, whatever.”
What might have broken Adam Schefter and Mike Florio’s friendship? Is it because of Adam’s tweet about Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson staying put in Detroit is irresponsible?
The crazy thing is the original story came from Josina Anderson and it appears that Schetfer co-opted it without giving her credit which has happened multiple times over the years even when they were both at ESPN.
That is the actual crime that happened.
Adam Schefter says it and everyone believes it. But when @JosinaAnderson reported this a month ago, the agent was quick to basically call her a liar and so did everyone in the replies https://t.co/adfhRo7Gr7 pic.twitter.com/9piUsMkyAY
— D (@GunslingerViews) January 30, 2024
Just another day in the media world.