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NPDS - ESPN Nightmare continued: Pat McAfee calls exec a "rat" on air; NFL Black Monday: Commanders fire Rivera mid-show! (Episode 963)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We’ve been nominated in two categories for the Sports Podcast Awards! Best Baseball Podcast! Best Sports Business Podcast! You can vote for us now: https://www.sportspodcastgroup.com/shortlist-category/ Today’s word of the day is ‘decision pt.2’ as in choices as in business as in ESPN as in Pat McAfee as in Norby Williamson. What are we talking about? Friday was a day ESPN wished it could forget. (15:20) The NFL playoffs are set! Who made it? Who fell apart? Coaches are getting fired! GMs are getting fired! It’s all happening live! (23:50) Should Dennis Allen keep his job with the Saints? The team doesn’t think so! (34:10) Review: Golden Globes. (40:40) NPPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here you go.

0:04.0

go. Oh. Decision Part 2. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Monday, January 8th, 2024, otherwise known as the last few minutes of many guys coaching careers.

0:30.6

NFL season came to an end yesterday. The golden globes were last night, but what interests me is the decision part two.

0:39.0

And no, it's not about LeBron James. If you recall our show from last week, we talked about Pat McAfee and Aaron

0:47.0

Rogers and the decision that Bob Iger had to make about Aaron Rogers appearing on Pat McAfee and what he had to do about McAfee versus Jimmy Kimmel,

0:56.4

Rogers versus Kimmel, when you have two different silos fighting each other, and that was a decision. Then on Friday the anti got bigger.

1:09.6

Bob Iger was just sitting around everything feels good

1:13.2

Batman if he's going on the air

1:15.3

what's he gonna talk about we had to talk with him before he went on the air

1:19.4

here's how we want to deal with this put on nice shirt, and let's try to be done with this story.

1:27.0

Instead, Pat McAfee, the guy making $15 million a year from the shareholders of Disney,

1:34.9

a contract where he's got a platform bigger,

1:38.2

from a linear standpoint, that any platform he's ever had.

1:43.0

A guy who's gone from company to company,

1:45.0

never finishing out a contract with any company.

1:49.0

Spreading his wings,

1:51.0

making E-SPN young and making him and all of his people very wealthy, he comes out

1:59.0

and tries to explain to you why his numbers on television are low.

2:06.0

Because Andrew Marshand of the New York Post

2:09.1

delivered a column that said that the Pat McAfee show on ESPN is not doing well and when the show is not

2:16.7

doing well you better not ruffle any feathers or else you're going to get

2:21.0

cancelled and there's a lot of examples of people who shows have been cancelled

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