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You can’t really take any days off if you’ve decided to make a living as an NFL insider—a job path that Adam Schefter and Mike Florio have both opted to travel down. Those two men had a pretty active Christmas, as they took time out of the day to engage in a miniature feud thanks to a rumor about Pete Carroll gearing up for a comeback.
It’s been close to a year since Pete Carroll stepped down as the coach of the Seattle Seahawks to end an impressive 14-year run where the team made the playoffs ten times and secured a Super Bowl with a blowout win over the Broncos in 2014.
The longtime skipper opted to remain with the team in the wake of what was positioned as a mutual separation that allowed former Ravens offensive coordinator Mike Macdonald to take the reins. However, it sounds like the man who’s spent the vast majority of the past three decades as a head coach is getting antsy.
On Christmas, Adam Schefter published a report that asserted Carroll is hoping to find a new home in the NFL next season while citing sources who say he’s open to filling the void that formed in Chicago after the Bears parted ways with Matt Eberflus to bring his fairly disastrous tenure to an end 12 games into his third season.
It took less than an hour for Mike Florio to respond to the news with an article on Pro Football Talk where he posited “Carroll’s agent has specifically told this to Schefter in the hopes that Schefter would broadcast it to the world,” a fairly unfounded claim that nonetheless was in the realm of possibility based on the ESPN insider’s reputation as a mouthpiece for his many NFL sources.
However, Schefter—who recently put Doug Gottlieb in a body bag for questioning one of his reports—did not take those accusations lightly, as he hopped online to tell Florio he was “100 percent wrong” before sending him some holiday wishes.
Everything you say here is 100 percent wrong. Keep up the guess work and Merry Christmas.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 25, 2024
Florio declined to escalate things with his response, as he simply made light of the aforementioned Gottlieb situation before moving on with his day.
Schefter seems pretty confident in his report, so I guess we’ll have to wait and see how things play out once the NFL teams that will need a new head coach next year kick off their search.