When speaking with Mark Leibovich for a book about the NFL called Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times, Adam Schefter reportedly made no apologies for his type of journalism. Leibovich respected the candor from Schefter.

Schefter is known for breaking transactional news before his peers and with greater frequency. Schefter, however, rarely reports with the type of depth of some of his colleagues at ESPN such as Don Van Natta.

Leibovich describes Schefter as the über-connected king of Twitter “nuggets”; “league powwows,” he writes, “are like Adam’s bar mitzvah.” 

“Everything’s fleeting," said Schefter when asked if his output of reporting 'nuggets" was satisfying.