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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 1064 - Jim Harbaugh Hired By The LA Chargers, Dave Canales Hired By The Carolina Panthers, Adam Schefter, Michael Lombardi, Paul Heyman, Coach Chuck Pagano LIVE In The ThunderDome, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.919.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 181 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Pat, Chuck Pagano, AJ Hawk, and the boys react to the news that the LA Chargers have officially hired Jim Harbaugh to be their new Head Coach and how it seems like a home run destined to succeed by all accounts. They also discuss Buccaneers OC Dave Canales officially being hired by the Carolina Panthers to be their new Head Coach reuniting him with Dan Morgan from their days in Seattle together. Coach Pagano also previews both of the Championship games this upcoming weekend and gives his picks. Joining the progrum to chat about both the Harbaugh hiring and the Dave Canales hiring in Carolina and what might be coming next (21:40-31:22). Next, 3x Super Bowl Champion, former GM of the Cleveland Browns, host of the Lombardi Line and GM Shuffle podcast, Michael Lombardi joins the show to chat about all the different hirings going on right now, Belichick and Vrabel potentially being on the outside looking in, and who he likes this weekend in the Conference Championship games (31:22-53:56). Later, The Wiseman, Council to the Tribal Chief, WWE Legend, Paul Heyman joins the show to preview this weekend’s Royal Rumble, and what makes Roman Reigns the greatest WWE Superstar of all-time (1:32:10-1:51:58). 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

Hello beautiful people and welcome to our humble abode the Thunder

0:04.7

dome on this big coach Thursday January 25th

0:07.7

2024 this sports program starts now

0:14.0

football is headline heavy right now.

0:16.0

We got defensive coordinators moving from Miami to Philadelphia,

0:19.0

but the one story that everybody on Earth is talking about

0:22.0

is that the reigning defending

0:24.9

current national champion of the college football world

0:28.8

Jim Harball is now the head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers.

0:33.0

That was announced yesterday at 643 Eastern Time by this man who is a Michigan man's

0:39.2

Twitter account.

0:40.0

Adam Schefter will be joining us in about nine minutes to break down how we inevitably got here.

0:44.6

Because if you do recall, December 4th, I believe, Schefter came on our show whenever we were in New York.

0:52.2

And this is how he described the hardball

0:54.5

Michigan situation to us. Has hardball's camper team thought about that or they

0:59.6

just focused on college football playoff? Well I would say that to me he's always wanted to go bring a national championship

1:07.0

Michigan and I think if he brings a national championship to Michigan, I would think there would be a part of him that feels like he set out to do what he intended all along.

1:17.0

And I think that that would give him even more liberty to take the jump to the NFL.

1:21.0

So literally since December 4th, Adam Schefter's kind of been saying that all Harbaw wanted to do

1:26.4

whenever he got back to Michigan was restore some greatness to Michigan. I think it was a narrative

1:30.8

that was heard loud and clear by a lot of Michigan alums because whenever

1:33.9

Jim Harbaw leaves the national champion Michigan team to go to the Chargers.

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