Yesterday, a report from ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter claimed the Chicago Bears were “leaning” toward trading the first overall pick in the upcoming NFL Draft. 670 The Score host Laurence Holmes took issue, not with the report, but with the way it was framed and presented.
The graphic accompanying Schefter’s tweet used the term “developing news” four times, which Holmes viewed as overkill.
“Football is the straw that stirs the drink when it comes to sports conversation in this genre or the genre, the medium that ESPN works in. I get it. I understand it. I’m having a hard time with the way some of this stuff is framed,” admitted Holmes.
“I really am. I know what it is a sign of…I just feel like there’s one-source reporting — I’m not talking about Schefter in this case, because there have been others where you got ‘Oh…’ — it just feels like now because of how quickly the news cycle devours news and tosses it away, people don’t even care. You can be wrong about stuff like this, you can report it, you can report it poorly, and there are no consequences for it. So why don’t I just start doing that? ‘The Bears are hoping to get better this offseason’.”
Holmes then clarified he was discussing a report from Jason La Canfora that claimed the Bears could possibly keep the number one overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft and instead trade quarterback Justin Fields, who the franchise selected with the 11th pick in the 2021 NFL Draft.
“I know what it is is the dawn of the end of my career. I’ll just get frustrated and say ‘You know what? I’m out’, but when you go back to what I think was — I can’t prove it, and I’ll be upfront about that — but what I think was from a one-source report from Jason La Canfora can then turn into all of us using it as programming, but people who might be better equipped to debunk the story, like an Adam Schefter or an Ian Rapoport, saying ‘I guess that makes sense’…so then it gets into the bloodstream.”
