Schefter fires back at Bills

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that's just a difference of opinion on whether or not when buffalo had these discussions is still valid now. I side with the Bills though because I think it's safe to say that while they might have earlier this summer, I sincerely doubt they're still engaging in Leinart conversations with AZ.

[RockStar36]

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Schefter is an idiot anyways. He said Cowher isn't coming to Buffalo.

[DraftBoy]

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Schefter is an idiot anyways. He said Cowher isn't coming to Buffalo.

Yea he's always wrong and clearly hates the Bills!

[OpIv37]

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It seems to me that Schecter is being disingenuous in how he reported the Bills' interest in Leinart. "At some point this summer" could mean anything from Memorial Day til now. Maybe the Bills inquired months ago, it didn't work for the reasons stated in the article, so they dropped it.

Now that it looks like AZ wants to dump Leinart, Schecter comes out with the Bills as one of the interested teams.

The Bills immediately deny the rumor, because even if there had been interest at one point in time, there isn't any interest now. Schecter then tries to save face by citing his two sources, but never mentions the time frame.

I hate it how NBC just jumps to the conclusion that the Bills were wrong and Schecter is right.

[ddaryl]

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Ok if they had talks over the summer then why bring it up now like he did and suggest the talks were recent...

[Forward_Lateral]

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7 million next season for Leinhart? Arizona

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"I didn't report Leinart would be traded to Buffalo. I simply reported that Arizona and Buffalo discussed it this summer, which they had. There's nothing erroneous about that."

what does he mean by summer ? A few weeks ago? Before camp?

I wouldn't be surprised if the bills did that back then. Back then has nothing to do with the most recent story. Shefters reports implies that the bills recently talked about the trade with the Cards a few days ago when the story broke out. If the bills didn't recently, That would still make the recent report erroneous.

[OpIv37]

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7 million next season for Leinhart? Arizona

and I read somewhere that it's a $12 million cap hit (assuming they get the CBA done and the cap remains).

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BillsFan27 says: September 1, 2010 10:26 AMLeave it to Schefter to get all rilled up over this in an attempt to cover his ass (on the heels of the Washington Post debacle) - Schefter took some report from two months ago and applied it to today. He's just trying to stir up tweets. He must be lonesome.
My advice to Schefter: do your homework, dbag, and stop going off your gut.
I have two very credible sources that have told me that Adam Schefter is a hack. And that, I'm sure, is not a hoax.

Lol!

[Beebe's Kid]

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It's called a "Jump to Conclusions" mat.

[Mr. Miyagi]

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It seems to me that Schecter is being disingenuous in how he reported the Bills' interest in Leinart. "At some point this summer" could mean anything from Memorial Day til now. Maybe the Bills inquired months ago, it didn't work for the reasons stated in the article, so they dropped it.

Now that it looks like AZ wants to dump Leinart, Schecter comes out with the Bills as one of the interested teams.

The Bills immediately deny the rumor, because even if there had been interest at one point in time, there isn't any interest now. Schecter then tries to save face by citing his two sources, but never mentions the time frame.

My feeling exactly. Schefter usually is on the ball but the timing of this particular reporting is poor and perhaps intentionally misleading.

Shame on him for making news out of nothing.

[Stewie]

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this whole thing is blown up PR over mis-interpreted words. Schefeter never directly said WHEN. Other people implied recently, and thus we have lots of wasted time.

[OpIv37]

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this whole thing is blown up PR over mis-interpreted words. Schefeter never directly said WHEN. Other people implied recently, and thus we have lots of wasted time.

But by not saying when, Schecter was trying to make the story bigger than it was. That's the whole problem. The media, both sports and general news, do this all the time, but they rarely get caught red-handed like Schecter did here.

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Schefter is again trying to put his own spin on this...

"I didn't report Leinart would be traded to Buffalo. I simply reported that Arizona and Buffalo discussed it this summer, which they had. There's nothing erroneous about that."

Too bad he didn't reveal the time frame of the discussions until after Buffalo called his report erroneous.