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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 1003 - Thursday Night Football Preview, Bill Cowher, Nick Saban, Arthur Smith, CC Sabathia, Chuck Pagano LIVE In The ThunderDome, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.919.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 173 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Pat, Coach Chuck Pagano, AJ Hawk, and the boys preview tonight’s Thursday Night Football game between the Buccaneers and the Bills, chat about allthe injuries mounting up for the Bills, and who needs to win this game more before making their picks for tonight’s game. They also chat about the advanced scouting at large in football and what is ultimately going to come of the Michigan situation. Joining the progrum to chat about his upcoming NFL Icons documentary on MGM+, plus everything happening around the NFL currently is Hall of Famer, Super Bowl Champion, 2x NFL Coach of the Year, Bill Cowher (26:47-54:51). Next, 7x National Champion, the greatest college football coach of all-time, Nick Saban joins the show on a bye week after a huge victory over Tennessee to chat about what he’s doing to relax this week, what he told the team at halftime before their big comeback, his thoughts on the Michigan scandal, how they’ll prepare for LSU and a player like Jayden Daniels, if he’s keeping tabs on the college football playoff rankings, and more (54:57-1:18:06). Next, Head Coach of the Atlanta Falcons, Arthur Smith joins the show to chat about his press conference response from yesterday that went viral, his relationship with Mike Vrabel ahead of the Falcons game against the Titans this week, how they’ll try to curb their red zone turnovers, how ice cold Younghoe Koo is, and more (1:34:41-1:48:09). Lastly, World Series Champion, Cy Young Winner, 6x All-Star, and future Hall of Famer, CC Sabathia joins the show to preview the World Series matchup between the Rangers and Diamondbacks, who he likes, how he thinks the season as a whole went with the new rule changes, and how his golf game has been (2:00:31-2:16:24). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. Or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow LIVE from Utah, cheers.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello beautiful people, welcome to our humble abode, the thunders on this Coach Damon Thursday, October 26th, 2023. This sports program starts now football.

0:14.0

He's happening tonight at a baby. There's a new voice in here. Let's just go right to it. Our coach, the people's coach, a man who coached football for 36 years, bought in on the football drop. Ladies and gentlemen, coach Chuck Pagano here.

0:26.0

Chuck Pagano, we appreciate the hell out of you. The toxic table is here at Boston Conor and at Tyshmit. Love the shirt. A little smaller size. Showcase in that body on your pal.

0:34.0

Yeah, I don't know if it was the washer and dryer that might have done that, but it has trunk a little bit. Yeah, I love the purple. I got a purple phone case in the mail. I saw this purple shirt. I was like, okay, I'm going purple owls today might as well.

0:45.0

Yeah, we're all mustangs here and that looks beautiful. From what I heard tomorrow, we might have a chance to see something as similar in the beauty landscape whenever it comes to us being in Utah tomorrow.

0:54.0

At the University of Utah live with one half of the hammer down. Cowboys, tone digs. You look great, Buck. You look great.

1:01.0

Hey, big one tonight is a week eight of the usual season kicks off the Buccaneers who have already had their buy week three and three.

1:07.0

Go to Western New York to take on the Buffalo Beals. Now you can get this at nine and a half, nine and ten across all of the sports books, depending upon what type of benefit or how you fancy.

1:18.0

This is an interesting game because this Buccaneers team has outperformed what everybody thought they were going to be going into the season.

1:24.0

They got weapons all over the place. They're out in all offensive guard and potentially a defense attack was one of the best in the game in Vita Vaya, which is a game time decision.

1:31.0

But Baker Mayfield's been playing good ball and on the other side over there is Buffalo Beals team. What the hell are they?

1:38.0

We have no idea. Josh Allen has had more of what are you doing? Josh Allen moments in this particular season than we had seen in a couple years in the past.

1:46.0

And they're also injury riddled tonight. Dawson Knox is out. Dawson Knox is a great tight end for Josh Allen. A weapon of his. A man that he likes to check down to check out too.

1:57.0

And also a guy who's a masterpiece of their culture. He'll be out on this. Damien Harris obviously got injured in the past. Trey White got injured. Milano got nine in behind. Do you remember that training camp? He's out.

2:07.0

Take one Jones. This team. Okay, poor you missed the game. I think they're they've been injury laden. And they still have all the talent to potentially go on a run even with all these injuries.

2:17.0

But a lot of people are wondering will they be able to do it? Ten point favorites on some of the books against his Tampa Bay Buccaneers makes me sense that the books think that this Sean McDermott squad is going to bounce back after getting embarrassed by the New England Patriots is four days ago.

2:32.0

But I don't know if the rest of the world's thinking that Chuck is five and two on these Thursday night football games against the spread. Chuck, whenever you think about this game this evening kicking off week eight of the NFL season.

2:42.0

What are your thoughts on what should we be thinking about it, pal? Well, Tampa's struggled to run the ball. And with those defensive tackles that Oliver's a question mark. They might be able to get a little something. If it's all on Baker.

2:54.0

You know, and Godwin and Mike Evans. That's really their offense because they got actually, you know, Vaughn and Rashad White. They haven't been able. They struggle to run the ball.

3:04.0

So and then turnovers for Buffalo. If if Johnson doesn't turn the ball over. You got a shot.

3:10.0

Hey, but if Vita Bay is not in there, Greg Gaines is the backup at nose. They can't run up the middle between the tackles of Vita's in there. They're not going to allow him to bullseys not going to allow him to do that.

3:23.0

They're going to have to rely on the pass and 88 turnovers since 2018. Most of the National Football League by the quarterback up there, Josh L.

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