Kyle Shanahan Car Accident EXPOSES Adam Schefter & The NFL's ESPN Layaway Plan | Ep 1206

**Scap** (0:01)
Latte for Keenan?

**SPEAKER_2** (0:02)
That's me.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:03)
Hey, you're...

**SPEAKER_4** (0:04)
Yeah.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:05)
Buying a car online on Auto Trader? Really? But unlike other sites, you can start online, test drive with a local dealer, then finish online or at the dealership. Really? Wait, are you... Yep, it's Keenan.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:16)
able to finish in person without starting the process over?

**SPEAKER_2** (0:19)
Really? Your info stays with you every step of the way. Cool. Enjoy.
It's Keenan Thompson. Buy your car online on Auto Trader. Really?

**Jason Whitlock** (0:31)
11 days. The San Francisco 49ers sat on it for 11 days. Their head coach, three broken ribs, a busted nose, a broken hand, 40 stitches, nearly lost an eye, and they told you nothing for a week and a half. Now, they want you to believe he got all that coming home from the chiropractor, and maybe he did. Probably he did. But here's what 11 days of silence does. 11 days of silence doesn't kill a rumor. 11 days of silence builds a rumor, brick by brick. So let me ask the question the 49ers spent 11 days begging me and you and everybody else to ask. Who else was in the car?
I have no idea. That's the whole point. They made sure I'd wonder.
And it reminded me of a show.
A show San Francisco has apparently never seen.

**SPEAKER_7** (1:31)
This is that fire. Grab your popcorn.

**Jason Whitlock** (1:36)
Yeah, this Kyle Shanahan car accident. It made me rewatch an episode of The Sopranos last night. Season five, episode five, irregular around the margins. Tony is behind the wheel of his black Escalade. It's past 3 a.m. Adriana LaServa, Christopher Mozzasanti's hot girlfriend is riding shotgun. Tony and Aide are driving to score some Coke after a long night at Crazy Horse. They need a bump. Tony swerves to miss a deer, totals the car and sets off a rumor that nearly gets him killed. I wonder if anyone in the 49ers organization watched The Sopranos. If they had, if Kyle Shanahan or John Lynch or team owner Jed York had seen Season 5 of the HBO Blockbuster, they wouldn't wait 11 days to announce that their head football coach broke three ribs, his nose, his left hand, suffered a concussion and required 40 stitches to fix his face.
11 days is how rumors get started. You heard, you remember the song, how do rumors get started? They're started by the jealous people. Yeah, Timex Social Club. Shanahan is one of the golden childs of ESPN and the NFL. His dad was a coaching legend. Adam Schefter wrote a book about Mike Shanahan. Kyle is protected by Shefty. People are jealous of Kyle. In the era of Diana Rossini and Mike Vrabel, 11 days is how rumors get started. Was this story kept secret because someone was in the car with Kyle Shanahan?
Look at all these rumors surrounding me every day. I just need some time, some time to get away from all these rumors. I can't take it no more.
My best friend says, there's one out now about me and the girl next door.
Now, let me be clear. I have zero evidence, none, that anybody was in the car with Kyle Shanahan. But that's exactly my point. I don't need evidence because the 49ers gave me 11 days of silence and 11 days of silence, oh, that's a canvas. And on a blank canvas, my imagination is better than Picasso's. I'm JJ Evans on Good Times. I'm Kid Dino Mike.
For 11 days, the San Francisco 49ers handed every jealous person in football, in America, a paintbrush, a paintbrush and said, hey, go fill it in yourselves.
And that's not how it happened in real life. That's how it happened in the Sopranos. Tony and Adriana did nothing. Oh, Tony wanted to, but he did nothing. He didn't kiss, he didn't touch. He swerved to miss a deer. But by the time the story ran through the gumas and the wise guys and the guys at Sachteriels, the rumor wasn't a car accident anymore. The rumor was that Adriana was performing a certain act on Tony that caused the accident. And Christopher, sober, paranoid, holding a gun, nearly murdered his boss over a lie, over a deer, started by the jealous people.
So here's my question for Jed York. What were you protecting? The truth is already the worst case scenario. Three broken ribs, 40 stitches, a man who almost lost an eye coming home from, and I want you to sit with this, a chiropractor.
Your head coach nearly died getting his back cracked.
You couldn't make that up. So why did you spend 11 days making sure I would? Now, Adam Schefter, everybody wants to hang Adam Schefter today. And I get it. Schefter tweeted the news at 1201 PM, one minute after the Niners announcement, with injury details that were not in the 49ers press release, details he shouldn't have had, details he had early. But I'm not going to sit here and tell you Adam Schefter is a bad guy or a bad journalist, because Adam Schefter is no longer a journalist at all. He's a mailbox. The team writes the letter. The team decides when to mail it. And Adam Schefter's whole job, the entire reason he makes millions of dollars, is to be the mailbox the NFL trusts to deliver the letter exactly when they say. Not a day early, not a day late. 1201 on the nose.