The sources for guys like Ian Rappaport and Adam Schefter are legit. There is no way their sources are shaky. If these guys say the Bears are taking calls or shopping or whatever ridiculous semantics game that wants to be played concerning Teven Jenkins and a trade then it’s no doubt legit. These guys have inside sources on teams. People within the organization. There’s no chance this is just speculation or a bad source. He may not get moved. Poles may not get what he wants. But with two of the biggest insiders of the league reporting it you can rest assured it’s happening.
and why would the source lie? Why would someone within the bears organization be making up trade rumors to Ian Rappaport or Adam Schefter? Who does that benefit?
and just lol at the suggestion that these guys who are the biggest insiders in the business have bad sources that are just making things up to them like this. There’s literally no motive whatsoever for someone representing the bears to make up Teven Jenkins trade rumors to Ian Rappaport.
I never said he made them up, I listed a few of a million possibilities as to his justification for writing it.
90% or more of these stories or rumors don’t pan out.
In fact I bet most of the rumors are based on insider info, gut info or any other possible source or reasoning for writing said article or fluff piece were baseless from the beginning.
Yes, insiders have and do lie for whatever their reasons are at the time.
I and others here are simply saying that there was nothing to this story and we were proven correct!
Was he traded? No! That’s the point!
Not the reasoning behind the article!
If I were GM, all my guys are on the trading block! Why wouldn’t I listen to every offer?? Not doing so could end up really hurting your club by missing an opportunity to pull a Hershel walker like trade return!
Did you really think they were going to trade Jenkins???? He has shown more upside and ceiling in the month that he’s been playing guard than most good guards in this league like our own Whitehair.
If Jenkins keeps his head in straight with the same attitude on and off the field as he has the past couple of games- Jenkins is the answer at right guard we have all wanted.
Given all the reporting on Jenkins this off-season and especially considering the spectacular play Hes shown in the past two weeks, I’d bet people were calling unsolicited and that may have been all that was said and rappaport and others ran the story based on that alone!
Some reading requires some analytical thought process.