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Analyst predicts NFL could sell ‘best games’ to Netflix after 2029 opt-out

The NFL will be exerting maximum leverage come 2029.

"The one time I put my phone away, I am an addict."

"These league-owned networks, they're losing subscribers by a ton."

"You would have thought that you just told me that I won the lottery."

"Do you want to be at theme parks, or do you want to be at ballparks?"

"If Boomer would have picked afternoons...I would have tried to find a way to move heaven and earth and make that possible"

"I learned you can't rely on any of these employers. You can't rely on some executive doing you a solid. You got to do your own thing."

ESPN insider Adam Schefter loves the NFL beat, but wishes he could expand his reporting into other sports more often.

"It's a huge body of work. There are times when it is five minutes. Great. There are plenty of times when it's not."

"I wanted to shoot myself after we were done. I said, I can't do four hours with this lunatic. There is no way."

"Al Michaels told me in the booth that ‘if you mentioned his name, you're going to get dead air. We don't get along with Al Davis.’"

"I start looking around at all my colleagues like, 'Did he just say that?'"