There's absolutely no way he can throw the NFL under the bus, though. That's just a reality of where he sits as someone with a job that he ostensibly wants to keep. Any reporter in the country runs with that information based on who gave it to him.
I never said he had to actually give up his source. I'm not expecting that, no reporter does that. But the least, THE LEAST, he can do is just simply apologize for that report and admit that he was given wrong information that started this poopstorm. He has yet to do that. Heck, the report is still up and free for someone to look at it. It hasn't even been retracted.
And the whole wanting to keep his job thing I don't buy. If that's the case, Adam Schefter better start looking for a new job considering on Thursday he suggested that Mort was given false information by one or more high-level NFL official...that sounds a little to me like throwing the NFL under bus.
Again, he doesn't have to reveal who told him this bad info, but the least he can do is man up and admit that he got it wrong, his source got it wrong. Not every source works out for reporters and sometimes they have to admit that their source was wrong...he hasn't done that yet.