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Adam Schefter joins in on NFL reporter Starbucks altercation with photo aimed at Jordan Schultz

by:Alex Byington•02/27/25•

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Following Wednesday night’s Starbucks kerfuffle between dueling NFL insiders Ian Rapoport and Jordan Schultz, ESPN’s own insider Adam Schefter returned to the scene of the incident with a little message for his fellow insiders.

Using a dateline from Indianapolis, the site of the annual NFL Scouting Combine, Schefter joined in on the social media fun by visiting the same Starbucks where NFL Network‘s Rapoport and FOX Sports‘ Schultz reportedly got into a verbal sparring match on Wednesday night, according to a report from Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio.

Florio cited “multiple sources” that watched the emotionally-charged altercation between Rapoport and Schultz inside the Starbucks located inside the Indianapolis JW Marriott, where Schultz allegedly accosted Rapoport, according to Florio.

Florio reported Rapoport was involved in a private conversation with an agent inside the Starbucks when Schultz — ironically the son of former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz — approached the NFL Network newsbreaker and told him: “We need to talk.”

Rapoport reportedly shut his FOX Sports counterpart down cold: “We don’t need to talk,” according to Florio’s reporting.

Schultz then allegedly lobbed several accusations at Rapoport, according to Florio’s sources, as the two NFL insiders were face-to-face in the coffee house.

“If you have anything to say it to me, say it to my f*****g face,” Schultz reportedly told Rapoport, according to Florio’s account of the incident. “If this continues, we’re going to have a f*****g problem.”

Rapoport then asked Schultz to step back from him, to which Schultz reportedly shot back: “If this happens again, we’re gonna have a f*****g problem. Now I’ll step back.”

Report: Argument allegedly stems from report about Tom Brady, Matthew Stafford meeting

For his part, Schultz later told Florio he did not remember using profanity in the argument. The argument has since been reported to NFL Security, which took statements from multiple witnesses to the media dust-up in Starbucks, per Florio.

The incident quickly went viral after noted social media personality PFT Commenter — also known as Eric Sollenberger — posted a tweet Wednesday evening referring to a “serious big time media confrontation” between “two NFL newsbreakers.”

Florio reported the catalyst of the dust-up allegedly centered around Schultz’s reporting that Raiders minority owner Tom Brady had hosted Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford at his Montana home in an effort to convince Stafford to come to Las Vegas.

Later Wednesday, Rapoport and fellow NFL Network insider Tom Pelissero seemed to pour cold water on Schultz’ reporting and downplayed the meeting as incidental and “unplanned” since both Brady and Stafford own homes in the same Montana ski community.

On3’s Wade Peery contributed to this report.