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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 1007 - Trenches Wednesday With NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, JJ Watt, Kirk Herbstreit, AQ Shipley and Darius Butler LIVE In The ThunderDome, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.919.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 180 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Pat, AQ Shipley, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about the breaking news that the Raiders have fired both Head Coach Josh McDaniels and GM Dave Ziegler, what this means moving forward, and everything else happening around the NFL as we prepare for week 9. Joining the progrum for an incredible conversation is NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, to chat about the growth of the game, how he handled the bounce back from the lockout season, expansion in the NHL, the Stadium Series, playing in European markets, getting their top players known more by the general public, and much more (28:36-56:45). Next, future Hall of Famer, 3x DPOY, Houston Texans Ring of Honor member, and friend of the show, JJ Watt joins the progrum for his weekly look at the best defensive line plays from the weekend, and to chat about his soccer club Burnley, and what they need to do to turn things around (1:05:33-2:00:27). Later, the voice and face of college football, Kirk Herbstreit joins the show to discuss the CFB committee’s first top 25 list, if he agrees with it, who is pissed, and why it ultimately doesn’t matter until December (2:07:02-2:13:11). 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, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good for people. Welcome to our humble abode, the thundered arm on this commissioner Wednesday.

0:06.5

November 1st, rather rabbit. This sports program starts right now football is obviously happening

0:13.7

all around us and there was massive news overnight that we will certainly dive into here in a matter

0:18.7

of moments, but also massive news today on this program in about 29 minutes or so. We will have

0:24.5

the first and only NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on the program. Wow.

0:31.3

Could I wait to chit chat with Gary Bettman about what life is like as a commissioner,

0:35.0

what's going on with the NHL what the future plans are and how do we continue to build the momentum

0:39.9

that we currently have for a sport that nobody really realizes how great it is until they get a

0:45.0

chance to watch it. How do we get more eyes on hockey so they can continue to grow and be a sport

0:50.8

that kids and everybody can fall in love with cannot wait to chat with him. We also have JJ

0:55.4

what on today for his weekly segment can't wait to chat with him Kirk Herbstreet will join us in

1:00.1

the third hour in between all of his meetings because you know he meets with every coach of every

1:04.3

team that's calling in every game and then everything he's got going on. One of the busiest dudes

1:08.6

of all time making time for us today because the first official college football playoff top 25

1:14.3

ranking was released just yesterday on the college football playoff live show that hosted by

1:18.9

Reese Davis speaking of Reese Davis. Reese Davis will be with us here in the Thunderdom for our next

1:25.0

mega cast simul cast on Saturday night that'll be a take on red zone. Oh yeah be a college football

1:31.9

frenzy a college football primetime cover basically every game that's happening on Saturday evening

1:38.3

we will be cutting in and out of whenever things heat up. Now if it's a little bit dry and if

1:43.3

the game's getting a little cold boom we'll hit some highlights from earlier in the day. So what I'm

1:46.5

thinking Saturday night is going to be hosted by the incomparable Reese Davis will basically be

1:51.3

everything you need to know from the college football day that was in the primetime games that are

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