PMS 2.0 1260 - Thursday Night Football Preview, Bill Belichick & Rich Rodriguez Named Head Coaches At UNC & West Virginia, Mike Tomlin, North Carolina Football GM Michael Lombardi, Marty Smith, Coach Chuck Pagano, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 166 minutes

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On today’s show, Pat, Coach Pagano, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about Bill Belichick being introduced as the Head Coach of the North Carolina Football team and Michael Lombardi coming down on board as the General Manager, as well as the news that Rich Rodriguez has accepted the job offer from West Virginia to become their Head Coach again as Pat will be on site in West Virginia tomorrow in the Coliseum for his introductory press conference. They also preview tonight’s Thursday Night Football game between the Rams and 49ers and make their picks against the spread in a crucial divisional matchup. Joining the progrum is 2x Super Bowl Champion and Head Coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Tomlin to chat about his experience with Hard Knocks so far and why he was apprehensive initially, his decision to make the move to Russell Wilson and why he chose to do so and why the decision was easier than a lot of people in the media made it out to be, his relationship with Cam Heyward, playing 3 games in 10 days, and his thoughts on Bill Belichick taking the Head Coaching job at North Carolina. Next, the new General Manager of the North Carolina Football team, 3x Super Bowl Champion, and friend of the progrum, Michael Lombardi joins the show to chat about he and Bill Belichick’s goals at North Carolina, why he’s so excited for this opportunity, how they’re going to turn North Carolina into a powerhouse, and what needs to be addressed here first. Later, ESPN legend, and co-host of Marty & McGee, Marty Smith joins the show live from Chapel Hill and the Bill Belichick press conference to chat about how big of a deal this is locally in North Carolina, what questions he’d like to see answered by Bill in relation to the job, and how big of a paradigm shift this move is. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. We’ll 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 Thunderdow, on this coach rod is back Thursday.
0:08.1	December 12, 2024. This program starts now.
0:13.0	Football.
0:13.9	It is amazing. We're so lucky that we get to talk about it every single day.
0:17.8	Thank you so much for joining us. It is a glorious Thursday here because, yes,
0:21.7	it is official. Rich Rodriguez is back to be the coach of the West Virginia Mountaineers.
0:29.5	Obviously, this comes after a very long interview process that Ren Baker conducted, the
0:33.8	athletic director for West Virginia, who spanned against, I guess, 15 different coaching
0:38.7	candidates, got Zoom calls, and then follow-up meetings took place, and inevitably, to go
0:43.8	forward to where we want to be. We had to go back to when we were the best we ever were.
0:48.4	And it's been nice the last couple weeks here to kind of catch up, you know, chit-chat with old teammates,
0:55.5	catch up with Coach Rod a little bit.
0:57.5	Talk to Wren Baker about my experiences as a player for Coach Rod because that's obviously
1:02.7	Wren doing his due diligence, which he did.
1:05.2	No Stone was left unturned in his coaching search because he understands that his
1:09.7	entire legacy revolves around whether
1:12.0	or not he can make this West Virginia football team a winner again, can make them relevant again.
1:17.5	And he thought that the best choice, and he wasn't the only one, there's a lot of us.
1:22.0	Basically everybody that's ever played for this guy has come out and said, if Rich Rod was able to get the capability to be in a P4
1:31.9	program and have resources behind them, back in a state that he knows better than anybody else
1:37.6	because he's born there, grew up there, played college there, his family still lives there.
1:43.0	If there's anybody that can come and do a better
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