There is a whole lot to unpack here—and you'd be right in wondering aloud if Hardy has even now "addressed any of these issues"—but the long and the short of it was that Schefter's agenda was never to press Hardy. Schefter never had any plans to approach this interview with skepticism. He was going to have Hardy sit down and "explain his viewpoint."Well, again, I didn't think about it like that. I thought about the fact that we've got a real serious issue in our society. This guy's never addressed any of these issues that have come up. He's never done it one on one and, yeah, I'm sure he came in with an agenda and so did I…This was a guy that made a lot of headlines, had been in a lot of controversies, had never sat down and explained his viewpoint one on one. He could have whatever agenda he wants, doesn't matter to me. I'm going in there to get somebody who in my mind has been a controversial figure about a very serious subject to talk about it in a way that he's never ever addressed it before.
This is such chickenshit equivocation it's incredible. While "we all know" that "unsavory and unfavorable" things happened that night, and the very, very cold photos bear that out, Adam Schefter is simply not in the business of forming opinions on people who did things "WE ALL KNOW." And while Greg Hardy is allowed to spin his specious yarns to Schefter's face about never putting a hand on a woman, and while Schefter can repeat them into any open mic nearby, Schefter can only refer to a brutal physical assault documented by photographic evidence as something "unsavory and unfavorable." Adam, this isn't a waitstaff review on Yelp, this is assault and battery. Why can't you use your words?"It's a very difficult subject, it's a very tough situation. Again, this was his version—his version—of the events." Can't argue with that.Yeah listen, I honestly didn't go in there to form an opinion on whether he did or didn't hit her, ok? We all know something unsavory and unfavorable happened that night and it was chilling to see those photos. I wasn't there, I don't know what happened. I'll leave that up to everybody else to figure out and the courts to determine.