Pat McAfee respects, in some ways, what guys like Dov Kleiman and Twitter accounts like JPA Football do, but says that to consider them league insiders is a bit of a stretch.
Last week the JPA account accused Kleiman of copying their tweet, which lifted from Gregg Rosenthal’s article of the top 50 free agents in 2024.
ESPN’s Mina Kimes screenshotted the tweet and posted with her own comments on the uncredited aggregation at hand, and NFL insider Ian Rapoport retweeted a follow up tweet from Kimes linking to Rosenthal’s article.
“I just liked how Mina Kimes called attention to the work that Gregg does, and so I wanted to retweet it because Gregg is a good colleague and I wanted everyone to see his list of however many free agents that was,” Rapoport said jokingly when asked about the retweet on The Pat McAfee Show Friday.
McAfee said he had a different label for what those guys do.
“This next generation here of ‘news accrue-ers’ I will say, because they accrue information and kind of gather news and then they release it through their twitter accounts,” he said. “It’s a new angle. It’s not an insider, it’s not a pundit, but kind of a little bit of punditry in the news. They’re not really bloggers, but kinda. Because they’re giving their takes. And then sometimes not letting people know the context of the things that they’re saying and starting an absolute shitstorm. But I appreciate that they’re hustling trying to make it out there.”
Rapoport said a lot of times they post without proper context or credit.
“I don’t know the alternative,” he said. “I don’t know why they exist, just being honest. But I don’t know the alternative.”
